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 INDEX.

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Power (D'Arcy): Sleeping north and south, 93 ; a universal panacea, 157- 158 ; Warwickshire folk-lore, 187- 188 Priestcraft in folk-medicine, 101 Property, huming of, at gipsy-burial, 222.; disposal of, folk-tale incident, 76 Proverbs, local, 221 ; merry as a grig, 222 ; on the horse, 107-108 ; Derby- shire, 278-280 ; German, 94 ; In- dian, 26; Scottish, 9, 29, 59-60; Warwickshire, 188 Punchkin, philosophy of, 289-303 Pursuit, obstacles to, folk-tale incident, 15 ; Malagasy, 131

Quinsy, charm for, 94

Rain, superstition, 220

Rats, Irish notion concerning, 259

Raven, cry of, an omen, 25 ; folk-lore

of, 275 ; omen from, 65 Red preventive against enchantment,

102 Red hair of Donegal girls, 63 Red Sea, laying a ghost in, 253 Rejuvenating elixir, 156 Rhyme in folk-tale, 18, 21 Rhymes, nursery (Aberdeen), 59-60 Rhyming custom, 23 Rhyming formulae, 6, 26, 68,73, 74,91,

189, 222, 327 Ripon cathedral, threading the needle

at, 253, 286 River legend, 141 ; superstitions (Greek),

171 Rivers, traditional origin of, 151 Robin, folk-lore of, 266-267 Robin Hood legend in Drayton, 113,

114 Roe, legend of the (Ireland), 141 Rollrich stones, legend of the, 151 Roman Catholic folk-tales, 93 Roman coins called Dwarfes money,

287 Rosemary in flower-lore, 117 Ross-shire, witchcraft in, 288 Roumanian charms, 94; customs, 219 Round (J. H.): On All Hallow E'en

custom, 23 Russell (Isabel): Nursery rhymes and

proverbs, 59-60

Sacrifice, relic of, in Scotland, 332 Sailors' folk-lore, 259; superstitions in

Shetland, 350-351 St. John's eve in Norway, 348-349

St. John's herb in Drayton folk-lore, 148

St. Stephen's day customs, 31

Salamander, Drayton's notions of, 269

Sawyer (Frederick E.): Old Clem cele- brations and blacksmiths'-lore, 321- 328; laying a ghost, 253; Scottish folk-lore, 253-254 ; Sussex " tip- teerers' " play, 1-8; Syrian and Arab folk-lore, 187

Scotland, Fasten E'en ball in, 122 ; folk-lore of the horse, 106-109; holy wells in, 173-175; witchcraft in, 121, 219, 288; see ^' Lanarkshire "

Scottish farming customs, 329-332; fishermen's folk-lore, 350-351, 353- 357; folk-tales, 68-74, 277-278; su- perstition concerning suicide, 121; proverbs, 59-60, 91

Sea, health-giving virtues of, 354-357

Seals, totem superstition concerning, 259

Seal's wedding, a sailor's superstition, 351

Secrecy, necessary in folk-medicine, 99

Sedgcfield, football at, 124

Seven Champions of Christendom, variant of, 1-8

Seventh-son superstition, 31

Sheep, foretell storms, 331

Shetland, superstitions in, 378-380 ; sailors' superstitions in, 350-351

Shinny, game so called, 139, 140

Shoe, throwing for luck, 210

Shoeing of horses, customs at, 109

Shoemaker, trade legend about, 322- 326

Shoes worn by Irish of Branmore, 260

Shoulder-bone, divination (Greek), 171

Shrewsbury, May Queen, 191

Shropshire, burial superstition, 350 ; stories, variants of, 22, 23

Shrove Tuesday customs, 31, 32; cus- tom at Oxford, 221; custom at Sunningwell, 222 ; football on, 123, 124

Sibree (Rev. James): Malagasy folk- tales, 45-57, 75-81, 129-138, 161-168

Sicily, children's games in, 82-88 ; superstition in, 254

Sieves and knives, omens from, 25

Sleeping north and south, 93

Slugs, cure for rickets, 379

Snails used in folk-medicine, 219

Sneezing, omen from (America), 24 ; at childbirth, 257

Soldiers, children's game of, an omen (America), 24