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Rh contest for, tales, 132; Homeric parallels to Indian tales, master maid, the, 121; Panch Phul Ranee, 121; variants of the test of recognition theme, 131; Kaffir chiefs of the Hindu Kush, duties of, 103; Mohammedan festivals in, 137, 138, marriage and betrothal ceremonies (Mohammedan), 136; customs in, wife purchase, 105; bride's dress, 125, 127; among the Jâts, 128; coloured knotted strings used in, 139, 140, 171; North-West Provinces of, legends and parallels, 171; Ragunath idol, the, 184, 185; sacred colour, in, 185; Soma, altar in, 184; status of widows in, 106; swinging games, 137; totemism in, 168, 169, 171

Indolence, cord of, Ionian proverb on, 369

Indovinelli, see Riddles

Indra, rain-god, India, 279

Insanity, treatment of, in Syria, 12

Inshore, Scotland, gold at, dreamt of in vain, 377

Interregnum, results of, 115-118, 120

Ionian proverb on ropes, 369

Ireland (see Dolmens); ancient belief in mystic nature of dyeing, 124; Correctness of its traditional chronology, 57; influence of the Continent on legends, 62; legendary topography, 57; Pre-Christian immigrations into, 35, 55; well-god, worship in, 279; widows in early days, 106; witchcraft, Clonmel case of, 255

Iron (see Needles) inimical to demons, India, 140; Lincolnshire, 186; Syria, 12; put into water, 368; as cure for Evil Eye, 378

Isle de Kyphnos, Folklore de l', par Henri Hauttecœur, reviewed, 341

Isle de Siphnos, par Henri Hauttecœur, reviewed, 341

Italy, folklore of (see Abruzzi, Calabria, Naples, Sicily); catch-words of, 261; Devil, the, and the wind, San Remo, 364; Grateful Dead, version of, 232; Gubbio festival, the, 257; magic dresses, 129; riddles, 259, 260; sacrifice, alleged modern human, 362

Jack the Giant-Killer, F. H. Groome on, 236

James, M. E, the Tide, 189

Japan, folklore of; actors, how rewarded, 93; needles offered to palms at Sakai, 368; wedding dresses in, 125

Japhet's rain-controlling stone, 278

Jarvis, cited on effects of interregnum, 115, 116

Jason, 126

Jâts, bride's dress amongst, 128

Jay, once a man, Australian folklore, 306

Jewish folklore (see also Hebrew); Benjamin's mess, 103; David's harem taken by Absalom, 116; Tobit, story of, 242; wedding-dress, Jewish, 126

Jews in tale of Grateful Dead, 226, 235

Jin, fairies of Syria, etc., 12; marriages of, 16; their avocations, 19

John Basiliwich, Great Duke of Muscovy, etc., feeds his guests, 103; of Gaunt, toasts to, at Hocktide, 283

Joseph of Arimathea, legend as the germ of the Holy Grail Cycle, 346; details of tale, 347

Judas Iscariot, burned in effigy, Spanish Easter custom, 284

Jus Primæ Noctis, P. K., 366

Justinian, interregnum during last illness of, 116

Julâha, the, and the linseed field, and parallel tales, 171

Jutland, folklore of, collected by Kristensen, 196-198; value of, 215

Ka, the "double" in Egyptian theology, 339

Kabîr, burial of, 171

Kaffir chiefs of the Hindu Kush, their duties, 103

Kâlarudradeva, idol-ceremonies connected with, 277

Kalmuck marriage customs, 112

Kamilaroi tribe, Australian, European influence on sacred ceremonies of, 303; food-taboo, 326

Kangaroo tails worn at Australian Bora dances, 300

Karween, man made by Bunjil, 315

Kashmir tale of the Weaver and the Shroud, 122

Kava cup and parallels, 103