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Accidental element in Folk-tales, theory as to, 348

Accounts, 361

"Accroshay," Cornish boy's game, 60

Acrostics worn as charms, Cornwall, 196, 197

Africa, dances of primitive people of, 246-254, 278-314

Agricultural custom of Bábar tribe, 352

Agriculture affected by burial of suicide in sight of land, belief in, 160

Ague, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 202

Aïssaoua, dances performed by sect called, 289

Alfred, King, and the cakes, parallel story to, 263

Algiers, religious and secular dances of, 286-291

, dress of people of, 286-288

Alkathoia, Greek feasts called, 292

Alps, High, Dance of the, 312-314

American song-games and wonder-tales, 134-139

Ancestor worship among the Chinese, 236

Ancestral halls built by families for worship of ancestors, 237

tablets of Chinese, 237

Annual meeting, 362

"Angelina Baker," Barbadoes negro song, 7

Animal traditions of Roraima and British Guiana, 316-318

Animals taking human form, belief in, Formosa, 151

, in Cornwall, 189

, sacrifice of, in Cornwall, to remove ill-luck, 1 95

, worship of, at Chinese funerals, 242

Antrim, Ireland, customs in, 333

Ants as large as dogs, in Forbidden Door story, 117

Apes, men dwelling with, in Forbidden Door story, 117

Apparitions in Cornish coast among fishermen, 189

among aboriginal Formosa, 147

of coach and headless horses, Cornish, 26

of white lady at Marazion, 14; at St. Ives, 96

in Martinique, 316

Aprons, number of, sign of wealth of Greek girls, 295

Apron-string, tradition of stones so called in Cornwall, 27

Arabic proverbs, 263

Arbuthnot (F. F.): Persian Portraits, reviewed, 271-272

Ardmore, co. Waterford, superstitions at, 72

Arthur, King, castle of, 86

, traditions of, 87

, battle fought by, at Vellan Drucher Moor, 101

Arundells, Cornwall, story of, 35

Ashby (W. H.): on Somersetshire witches' ladder, 82-83; on Somersetshire witches' tales, 161-162

Asia, dances of certain primitive peoples of, 246-254, 273-314

Assam, dance executed by the hill tribes of, 273-276

Australia, use of feathers by medicine doctor in, 82-83

Bábar tribe, agricultural custom of, 352

Babcock (W. H.), on American children's song-game and wonder-tales, 134-139

Babies, superstition connected with, 208, 209, 210