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test, 130; dwelling in girl, 229; in connection with water, 179; as spirit of the dead, Africa, 308

Sessions, Frederick, some Syrian folk- lore notes gathered on Mount Lebanon, 3

Seventh son's powers, Syria, 19

Shakespeare, W., use of old material by, 98

Shamanism, in relation to Druidism,

76,77 Shaniin, Assyrian deity, 167 Shape-shifting, 161, 305, 309, 315 Sheba, Queen of, her questions to

Solomon, 259 Shimil, Assyrian deity, 167 Shirt, in chastity tests, 130; men's,

worn by kitty-witches, 366 Shrew ash, the, in Richmond Park,

by Margaret C. Ffennell, 330 Shrew-mother, the, her functions,

334, 335 ..

Shrouds, Indian feeling concerning, 122, 124; Chinese ideas, Moham- medan, Greek, and Scotch, 123, 124 ; underlying ideas, 124

Sicily, folklore of, 257, 258-261

Siegfried Saga, the Arthurian paral- lel, 182

Siegmund and Signy, Arthurian par- allel, 182

Sign language among aborigines of Australia, 263

Sigune, 348 _

Silver coins in medicinal folklore, 378 ; used to counteract witchcraft, 286, 378

Simonides saved by befriended corpse,

243 Sindbad, the seaman, digging his own

grave, 123 Sinhalese marriage customs, 112 Siphnian sculptures, the, 175 Sir Degrcvant, reference to Rhine

gold in, 372 Sir Gawain {see also Gawain) and the

Green Knight, 265, 270 Sirens, the. Saga of, 99 Sisyphus, 100, 114 Sitting on girl's clothes' box keeps

away match-makers, 128 Siva's bow broken, 132 Skaldic poetry, what it comprised, 43 Skattegraveren, Danish folklore,

magic, 200 Skye, humorous ghost tales from,

378

Slavonic riddles referred to, 259,

260 Smerdis takes the wives of Cambyses,

116 Smith, Prof. R., referred to, iSo Smith's mother seven times buried,

^? Snail, Lombard campaign against,

267 Snakes, see Serpents and Snakes Solar festivals {see Christmas a7id

Riom) ; theory, the, 163 Solomon and the Queen of Sheba,

259 Soma altar, the, female form of, 184 Some Highland Folklore, by W. A.

Craigie, 372 Some Syrian Folklore Notes, gathered

on Mount Lebanon, by Frederick

Sessions, 3 Somersetshire, folklore of, divining

rod in the Mendips, for minerals, 79 Sorcerers and sorcery {sec also Witches)

in the Lebanon, 16, 17 Souls, Breton belief concerning, 272 ;

Druze belief in transmigration of,

15 ; Egyptian beliefs concerning,

338 ; immaterial, belief in, the

result of civilised philosophy, 308 ;

savage theories of, 296, 297 Spain, folklore of ; Easter custom,

284 ; giants in pageants, 84 Sparta and Spartan law, loo, 106, at

death of kings, 117 ; the Spartans

at Pylos, 176 Sperchcios, the river-god, his garth,

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Speth, G. W., Notes from Cyprus,

188 ; resignation of, 157 Sphinx, Mount of the, 179 Spinning, of the Wright's Chaste

Wife, 121 ; in connection with

marriage, 127 ; wheel over door to

prevent return of corpses, Denmark,

217 Spinoza, 160 Spinster, alleged explanation of the

term, 127 Spirits of the dead, in animal form,

308 ; worship of, 292 Spitting to avert Evil Eye, lO Sprig of Rosemary tale, cited on

marriage dresses, 129 Spring festivals, in Syria, 5 Stakes at games, by Louise Kennedy,

93 Star, folklore, 18, 301, 306