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Index.

Spain and his Queen, chastity test, cited, 130

Thread communicating with Austra- lian heaven, 304, 31 1

Threshold ceremonies in Indian marriages, 152, 153

Thucydides, 1 15

Thunderstorm, Moquis' symbol of, 179

Tiamat, goddess of the "deep," 72 ; modification of, 73

Tide, the (in relation to death), by E. S. Ilartland, 272 ; by M. E. James, 1S9

Tiger-snake totem, Australia, 297

Tigris river, 165

Timanthes and his bow, 132

Timour and the marriages of his grandsons, 104

Tiryns, 113

Tobias, tale of, 242

Tobit, book of, its date, 165

Tobit and Jack the Giant-Killer, by Francis Hindes Groome, 226

Tom Tit Tot, 47

Tombs, terra-cottas, etc., in Rome, 178

Tonga, the Kava cup in, 103

Torch race, Greek, 168

Torosay, Mull, 280

Totems, taboo of, as food, Australia, 326, 327

Totemism, 68, 161, 168, 169, 171, 178 ; in relation to marriage pro- hibitions, 251 ; and to exogamy,

253. 254

Townshend, D., May Day in Lincoln- shire, 276

Transfer of adventures from one hero to another, 266, 347

Transmigration of souls, Druze belief in, 15

Transmission of folktales, 7°

Treasure, hidden, in Syria, 17 ; the Nibelung, in English, by W. P. Ker, 372

Tree-bed, in Greece, 131

Trees, folklore of ; Islessed to secure fertility, 5 : cut down in silence to avoid the Dryad, 342 ; not to be lopped under a waning moon, 18 the olive in the Odyssey, 131 sacred trees, 9, 75, 34, 368, 169 Shrew Ash, the, 330 ; voice of the god in, Australia, 299

Tregeagle, Cornish ghost, his tasks, 370. 371

Tribal custom, religious character of, 316; meetings, India, 108; right to be fed of those attending, 118

Tribes and Casks, the, of the North West Provinces and Oudh, by W. Crooke, reviewed, 167

Trinity, the Egyptian, 164

Trolls, Danish folklore, 213

Trouts bewitching milk, 85

Troy, loi, 117, 175

Troyes, Chretien de, and the Gawain Legend, 265, 267, 270 ; poems of, iSi, 267, 347-349

Truth test, Lebanon, 18

Tum as sun-god, 164

Tundun, Australian divinity, 30S

Turkey, folklore of; Matriarchy in 80 ; Rain-making in, 1S8 ; scene of Barra Widow's Son tale, 235 ; version of the Grateful Dead, tale from, 226

Turkey hen, folklore concerning, 83

Turkoman folklore, rain-controlling stone, 278

Tuttymen and tutty poles at Hock- tide, 282

Uddanpur, idol detained at, 27S Under-sea, King, and his daughter,

270 Unlucky and lucky days, 258, 341 Unmarried men's goods, kinsmen's

rights to, no

Vampires, 233, 256

Varuna, Indian rain-god, 278, 279

Vases, votive, from Lake Chapala,

Mexico, 225 Vedas, not primitive, 98 ; rain-god

of, 278 ; modern representative of,

279 Veil, the bridal, 125, 126 ; power of

Nereid attached to, 342 Venus, the, of Quinipilly, 184 Versions of tales, value of possessing

several, 209, 213 Vienne, magic dresses in, 129 Vikings, influence of, on British folk- lore, 35, 43 Virgin Mary, defeats the devil at

Lincoln, 273, 274 Voidiokoilia, 176

Wafthrudnir, the giant, and Odin's wit contest, 259

Wales, and Welsh folklore; Angle- sea, folklore of, 82 ; Arthurian