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Rh conception and definition, 64; savage idea of, 313

Godden, G. M., Ropes of Sand, Asses, and the Danaides, 368

Gods associated with animals in worship, 177; Australian, 290; Greek, not ghosts, 65

Goidelic, see Gaelic

Gold, dreamt of, Scotland, 373, 377; seekers for, Syria, 17

Gomme, A. B., conception by means of a glance, 82

Good Friday, a propitious death-day, Syria, 18

Good People (see Fairies), 60

Gorleston, fishing dole at. 245, 248

Gotham, wise men of, Danish parallel, 220

Gower, Wales, Arthur's Stone at, 77

Graal or Grail, the, 267, 350, 351, 352

Grateful Dead tale, and its variants, F. H. Groome on, 226

Grave-side memorial idol ceremonies, India, 277

Graves dug in anticipation of death, 123

Great Yarmouth (Suffolk), fishing dole at, 24 ; women's custom of levying money at, 366

Greek folklore ancient and modern; chastity tests, 130; death and funeral customs, 117, 123; dragons in, 234; games, the, their origin, 178; legends and parallels, 178; origin of popular theology of, 315; method of keeping away matchmakers, 128; parallels to German folktales, 233; riddles, 259, 260; ropes ofs and, etc., 369; Spartan customs on death of a king, 117; status of widows in, 106; storm-controlling stone, in, 278; tree-bed, 131; weaving ceremonies, 124; wedding dresses, 126; and veils, 127

Greek Isles, folklore of, Cyclades, 341; theatre, construction of, 176

Green, taboo of, in Yorkshire wedding dress, 126; Knight tale, in relation to Gawain tale, 265, 270

Gregor, Dr. W., on the bride's "providan" in Scotland, 127

Grimm, Aramaic parallel tales, 165

Groat placed in dead man's mouth, Lines., 187

Groome, F. H., Tobit and Jack the Giant-Killer, 226

Groot, de. Prof., cited on Chinese death customs, 122-123

Group-marriage, 162, 171, 254

Grundtvig, in connection with Kristensen, 198, 210, 211, 219; his collections of Danish folklore, 195, 210, 211, 217, 220

Guastella, cited on the true character of riddles, 258

Gubbio, municipal function at, Sicilian parallel, 257

Guernsey, female monolith in, 184

Guinevere, 266

Guingamor tale, compared with Launfal tale, 266

Gunn, D., tampers with a broch, and the result, 280

Gunnanbuly, or Gunnanbeely, wife of Baiame, Australian divinity, 300, 303

Gwalior, death-customs on death of a king, 116

Gypsy folklore, version of Grateful Dead tale, 226; Winged Hero tale, 240

Hades, 123

Haidah belief in death at ebb-tide, 272

Hair, of bride in India, 148, 149; cutting on Sunday unlucky, 341; cuttings, magic in relation to, 279; dressing on Friday unlucky, 258

Haykar the Sage and his ropes of sand, 369-370

Halitherses, 109

Hammers depicted on the Mycenae vase, 132

Hampshire folklore, British custom, 79

Hare, witch in form of, 285; form of, danger of stepping over, 286; lip, Scotch superstition concerning, 287

Harem of dead king appropriated by successor, 116

Hartland, E. Sidney, A Cornish Land Measure, 189; the "High Gods" of Australia, 290; Holy Week Observances in the Abruzzi, 362; the Tide, 272, cited on old customs in Homeric poems, 112; on Penelope's web, 122

Haussoullier, referred to, 176

Head, importance of covering while eating, 344; at marriage, 125

Heanley, Rev. R. M., on Lincolnshire superstitions, 186