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INDEX.

" Fool, fool, come to school," Cornish,

children's games, 49 " Foolish Johanna," legend of, 103-104 Foot *' gone to sleep," cure for, 202 Football games played in streets, 74 Forfeits, Cornish games played for, 51 Formosa, aboriginal, folk-lore of, 139-

153 Fortune-teller consulted to choose

marriage day in China, 231

in London, 73

Fowlers, cords used by, 355

Fox and geese, game similar to, played

in Ladakh village, 282 Foxglove, cure for gravel, 12, 13 France, maypoles in use in, 249 Frazer (J. G.), on Plough Monday

customs, 161 Friesland, North, folk-tales of, 335-388 " Friskee, friskee, I was, and I was,"

Cornish game, 49 Frog-stories, in Finnish folk-lore, 163-

165 Funeral customs in Donegal, 332; in

Sligo, 334-335; in the Sahara, 290

Games, children's, in rhyme, American, 134-139 ; Cornwall, 46-61, 324

among aboriginal Formosa, 148-

149

football, 74

Garlic, cure for sciatica, 13

Gaster (M.), on The Modern OHgin of

Ihiry-tales, ^S9-35l ; GreeTto-Slavonic

literature, reviewed, 358 Gates, carved wood, at Sidi Okbar, 291 Geese, Cornish superstition about, 193 Ghost laying at Birmingham, 261-262;

Cornish, 23-25 stories, Cornish, 14, 20, 21, 26-

27, 108, 109, 110
 * • Ghost at the well," Cornish children's

game, 55 Ghosts, appearances of, 105 Giants, race of, in Cornwall, 85

, Cornish legends of, 88-89

, stories of, in Scilly Isles, 39

Giant's chair, stones called, in Scilly

Isles, 40 Giants' graves, barrows called, in

Scilly Isles, 40 Gibb, (E. J. W.): JTistory of the Forty

VezirSy reviewed, 77

Gipsy dances, 297 "Go

ro on Lize," American children's game, 136 Goat kept with cattle for good luck, 196

God of the bed, offering to, Chinese

birth custom, 222 Godolphin Hall, tenure of, 20-21 Gomme (G.L.):on Agricultural custom, 352; on Football played in streets of towns, 74 ; on ctorious Scottish customs, 262; Arabic proverbs, 263; King Alfred and th4i cakes, 263 Good Friday buns used for cures, 202 Goose feathers used in witches' ladder, 3 Gorran men, " Gothamite," stories of, 34 Gourd, seeds of, represent the dead in

China, 241 Gravel complaint, Irish cures for, 12, 13 Greece, dances of, 292-295 similar to that of La- dakh, 294-295 ; to that of festival of Eugonath at Kulu, 294 " Green grows the willow tree," Ame- rican children's game, 138 Groaning cake, used in Cornwall, 208 Guaging day in Hereford, 75 Guardian spirit, called Hooper, Corn- wall, 98-99 Guiana ; see " Koraima " Guilds, trade, represented at feast of St. Paulinus, 309

Hair, lock of, called " widow's lock,"

217 belief connected with, Guiana,

319 Hair-dressing of Chinese children, 129 Hand-washing, test of innocence in

Cornwall, 98 Hands, fat, sign of future wealth,

Chinese superstition, 128 "Hannah Bella," Barbadoes negro

song, 8 Hare in folk-lore, 263-264 ; Cornish,

15-16, 190-191

changing of witch into, 161

Hare's-foot, cure for colic, 265 Hartland (E. S.): on Japanese New

Year decorations, 154-156 " Hasan of Bassorah," Forbidden Door

story, 120-124 Haunted houses in Penzance, 107-111 Heart-fever, cure for, Ireland, 69 Heaven and earth, tradition of disco- very of, in British Guiana, 316 Helston, ancient custom at, 100 Hemorrhage, Irish plant cure for, 13 Herbs used in Ulster for medicine, 11-

13 "Here come three dukes a-riding,"

Cornish children's game, 46-47 "Here I ait on a cold green back,"

Cornish children's game, 56