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INDEX.

Babies carried ofE by fairies, Cornwall,

183 Ball, playing at, in aboriginal Formosa

folk-tales, 141-143 game of, played in streets in

Ladakh valley, 282 Bailor of Tory, Irish legend, 66 Baptismal rites at Cornish holy wells,

92

custom, Ireland, 333

Barbadoes, Negro songs sung in, 5-10,

130-133 Barley bread, Cornish children's game,

58 Barrows, Cornish, tradition of buried

treasures in, 30 ; see " Giants " Bees, Cornish superstition about, 192 Belgaum, S. India, dance called club- dance at, 219-250 Bells, church, inventor of, 307 Betrothal stone in Scilly Isles, 40 Birds, belief of ill luck connected with, 316,318,319

omens from in Cornwall, 217

produced from trees, Scottish

superstition, 262

Ceylon, folk-lore of, 352

Chinese legends of, 124-127

Malay traditions about, 328-331

Birmingham, ghost laying at, 261-262 Birth customs, Chinese, 127-128, 221-

226

Cornish, 208-209

Black (W. G.), on folk-tales of Fries- land, 335-338

Blackberry leaves, cui'e for diarrhoea, 12

"Blackberry wine," American child- ren's game, 135

Blanchminster family, tradition con- nected with, 36

" Blind Buck a Davy," Cornish child- ren's game, 57-58

Blood, power of staunching possessed by witch, 198

staunching of, charms for cure

Cornish children's

of, 203 " Bobby Bingo,

game, 58 Boconnor oak-tree tradition, 31 Body, superstitions connected with, 219 Boils, Irish plant cures for, 12 Bounds, water, of Truro, ceremony of

renewing, 30-31 Bowditch (C. P.), on Negro Songs from

Barhadoeny 130-133 Boys (young) dressed as girls in China,

129

Bread from communion table used as

charm, 198 baked on Good Friday, properties

of, 202 British Guiana, folk-lore of, 315-321 Britten (J.), en the hare in folk-lore,

263-264 Broom, cure for dropsy, 11

' witch's, found at Wellington;

see "Witch's" Brownie, Cornish fairy, pranks of, 180 Building, superstitions connected with,

260-261

traditions, Cornish, 25, 27,

28

of Bottreaux Church, 33 of St. Neots Church, 32 at Towednack Church, 96


 * Buck shee, buck," Cornish boys

game, 59 " Buckey how," Coniish boys* game, 60 Bullock, pins struck in heart of, 199 Burdock, cure for dropsy, 12 Burial on hill sides among Chinese,

237 Buried cities, tradition of, in Corn- wall, 95 treasures said to be guarded by

fairies, 184 Burmese dance, 297 Burne (Miss C. S.): on Some simple

methods of promoting the study of

Folk-lore and the extension of the

Folk-Lore Swiety, 62-65 Buryan, tradition of stone circle at,

104-105 Busk (Miss R. H.): Folk-songs of

Italy, reviewed, 173-175 Butchers, custom of, in Penzance, 111 Butterfly, superstitious belief about,

214 Butterflies of Muzo, superstitious belief

of, 321 Buzzards, legend of, in Panama, 321

Cairn known as witches' haunt, 98 Cairo, dress of people of, 283-284 Cake, wedding, unlucky to break, 216 Calf sacrificed to remove ill-luck, 1 95 " Calie CO lin cum bin," Barbadoes

negro song, 6 Cambridge, celebration of Plough

Monday at, 161 Cancer, Irish cures for, 11 Candles used at deaths in China, 238 Capture, relic of marriage by, in

Donegal, 332; sec "Marriage"