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 INDEX.

Abercromby (Hon. J.): Irish bird-lore, 65-67 ; Irish stories and charms, 33-39 ; Mr. Nutt's paper on Irish mythology, 317

Aberdeenshire farming customs, 329- 332; fishermen's folk-lore, 353-357; folk-tales, 68-74, 277-278

Adder's tongue in Drayton's plant- lore, 147

Agricultural charms, 105 ; folk-lore, 329-332

Agrimony in Drayton's plant-lore, 148

All Hallow Een, 23

Alnwick, football at, 123

American songs and games, 243-248; superstitions, 23-24

Ancestor, soul of, in butterfly (Ireland), 213

Ancestors, invoking of, folk-tale inci- dent (Malagasy), 130, 131, 134, 135

Animal, bronze figure of, used as charm, 253 ; folk-lore in Drayton, 229-235; flesh used in folk-medicine, 98; heroes in folk-tales, 79-81, 166- 168

Animals, man in the form of, 364

Apperson (G. L.) : Tabulation of folk- tales, 152-154, 183-186, 216-217

Apple-throwing custom, 221

Arab folk-lore, 187

Arthur legend in Drayton, 113

Aubrey (John): Hearne's opinion of, 254

Aunt Sally game, 85

Australian Aborigines, customs of, 220-221

Baker, trade legend about, 322-326 Ball, game of (Ireland), 264, 319 Ballads, early mention of, 157 Barnacle goose, Drayton's conception

of, 271 Barrow called fairy mound, 261 Bathing customs and ideas, 356

Battle traditions, 150, 159, 187 Bees, rhyming proverb on, 279 Bell legend, 20-22 ; superstition

(America), 24 Bent (J. Theodore) : Modern Greek

games, 57-59 Berks, Shrove Tuesday custom in, 222 Bevis of Southampton, legend in

Drayton, 113 Bible, kissing the, in oath-taking, 63 Bible and key divination, 156, 380-381 Bibliography of folk-lore, 197-206 Bird legend (India), 302-306 Bird-lore, 65-67, 156. 232-235, 258,

266-272, 274-276 Birds, impounding wild, folk-tale,

19-20; see " Blackbirds " Birth, customs at (Connemara), 257 ;

Jewish, 187 ; farming notions at

times of, 331 ; superstition connected

with, 25-26, 378 ; from mother's

side, folk-tale incident, 50 Black (W. G.): Confirmation folk-lore,

348 ; St. John's Eve in Norway,

348-349 ; holy wells in Scotland,

173-175 ; Lilias-day at Kilbarchan,

381 ; Turcoman folk-lore, 43-45 ;

revival of witchcraft in Ross-shire,

288 Blackberries blighted by the phoca, 26 Blackbirds, unpopularity of, 120 Blacksmiths' lore, 321-8 ; custom on

shoeing horse (Scotland), 109 Blade-bone, divination by the, 367-369 Blood, custom of shedding on New

Year's day, 332 ; drawing from

witch, 349-350 Boat keel, copper coin nailed to, 351 Boroughbridge, tradition of battle

there, 150 Bridal flowers, 144-145 Bride capture (Ireland), 212 Bridget (St.), worship of in Ireland

139, 211-213

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