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342. Dying man puts his seal in his mouth. This is pointed to as a sign that he was not murdered.

349. Palaman.—Witches' spells. Victims marked on the flesh.

357. A Jogi buried forty days underground.

393. Superstitions connected with building a new house.

396. The Jinns (or ghouls).

397. Bells offered to Mahadeva, and hung in his shrine.

430. "Counting spells": e.g. if you are angry, count a hundred and you will recover your temper.

438. Superstitions about oil.

452. Limit of sacred land determined by shooting an arrow.

453. Bird-lore: crow, cuckoo, jay, wagtail, and others.

W. H. D. R.

OBITUARY.

CAPT. J. G. BOURKE.

Only a year ago we were called upon to condole with the Société des Traditions Populaires in the loss of its president, M. Ploix. The American Folklore Society has now sustained a similar bereavement by the death of its president. Captain John Gregory Bourke. Every one who knows Capt. Bourke's writings will recognise what a valuable life his was, and will share in the sorrow felt by the members of the Society over which he had been called so recently to preside. The author of The Snake Dance of the MoguisMoquis [sic] of Arizona, the unwearied enquirer into the lore of the American aborigines, wall not soon be forgotten. He was born at Philadelphia in 1843, and, having passed the greater part of his life as a soldier in active service, was about to retire, in the hope of devoting himself more entirely to anthropological science. The disappointment of that hope by his untimely death is a serious blow to scientific studies.