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INDEX.

Brothers, the two, Irish folk-tale, 185-

187 Buccaboo, Cornish legends of, 364 Buckingham, nursery rhyme in, 196 Bugbears for frightening children, 197,

302 Bulkeley (Warren), on name for brood

of ducks, 124 Burns, curing by charms, Durham, 91 " Bushel " (the). New Year's Day cus- tom called, 192-193 Building superstition, 23-24 Burial at sea, superstition, 363 Burmah, rain customs in, 214 Busk (Miss R. H.), on name for brood of ducks, 124 ; some folk-lore notes, 92-93; peacocks foreboding ill-luck, 227 ; St. Swithin and rain-makers, 267

Cairnbulg (Aberdeenshire), marriage customs in, 119-121

Caledonia (New), rain-maker's customs in, 215

Camel's hair, charm for curing fever, 194

Candles, superstitions connected with, 381

Cattle, sick, cure for in Tiree, 167; witch-spell on, 57 58, 166

Cesaresco (Countess E. M.), on songs for the rite of May, 153-163; on May chafer, 297-298

Changelings, fairy, 56

Charms, 331, 332, 334, 336 ; for chil- dren's complaints, 195 ; used in Dur- ham, 91; Gaelic, 92; Indian, 374-375; Magyar, 359; Persian, 194-195; stone celts as, 191; to remove witchcraft from cows, 57

Cheshire custom, 59; lifting men and women in, 269; wedding custom, 227

Chess, game of, 134-138

Childbirth customs, Magyar, 357

Children, customs and -superstitions connected with, Durham, 91; Greece, 219; Malagasy, 237; Peshawur, 328- 329; Scotland, 120-121 ; Swiss, 380; nursery rhymes of, 90, 384

Chilian fairy tale, 221-226

China, charms used in, 195; marriage custom in, 196

Chinese and Malagasy parallel, 193

Cholera, charm for cure of (India), 374

Christmas customs (Warwickshire), 352

Churning, witchcraft in, 123

Clouston, (W. A.), the Bakhtyar Nama, notice of, 197-198

Ockchafer, verses on (Germany), 188

" Cock Robin is dead," singing game, 385

Colours sacred to rain-gods (Yucatan), 246

Continental folk-lore notes, 380-384

Conundrums (Malagasy), 38-40

Coote (H. C), on a building super- stition, 23-24

Cornwall, custom at birth of first child, 59

Cornish legends, 364, 365

Counting ditties in Malagasy, 105-106

" Counting out " rhymes, 384

Cows, taking milk from by witchcraft, 57-58

Croatia, spring and rain customs in, 156

Crombie, (J. W.), on bugbears for frightening children, 197 ; Scotch riddle, 267 ; some Spanish super- stitions by, 295-296

Crops (growing), ceremonies to propi- tiate the gods for (Yucatan), 245- 247; protecting spirits of, 251

Cross-beam, death-bed must be under, 196

Cuckoo and the swift, unlucky to kill (Hampshire), 394

Chimberland counting-out and game rhymes, 384-387

Dahle (Rev. L.), collections of Mala- gasy folk-lore quoted, 2, 5, 69, 73

Daisies, superstition about, 383

Darmester (James), Essais OrientauXy notice of, 94

Day (Rev. Lai Behari), Folk-tales of JBengal, notice of, 303

Days, lucky and unlucky (Switzerland), 381; (Yucatan), 248

Dead, dirges for the (Malagasy), 69-77

Death omens (Greece), 217, 218; (Magyar), 355; customs; feast for the food of the soul (Yucatan), 248-249

Death-bed superstition, 196

Death light, note on, 395

De la Borderie (A.), Les deux Saints Caradec, notice of, 199

De Jubainville (H. d'Arbois), Intro- duction a V Etude de la Literature Celtique, notice of 199

Derbyshire counting-out and game rhymes, 384-387

Devonshire, superstition in, 333-334

Diseases among cattle, cures for, 331

Divination by the bible (Ludlow), 333, (Persian), 194