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374 Spinning done by men and women of Spiti valley, 280

parties in Donegal, 332

Spirits given to infant at birth, 331

Spiti Valley, Himalayas, dance by people of, 279-281

Spitting used in charming, Cornwall, 199

Sprinkling rooms with water, Chinese birth-custom, 222-223

Stone, sacred, form of oath among the Somali tribe, 322

Stone-circle at Buryan, tradition of origin of, 104-105

Stones called "apron strings" in Cornwall, story of, 27

Stones, holed, diseases cured at, Cornwall, 31

Storm-god, Cornish legend of, 106-107

Story-tellers among aborigines of Formosa, 139

Strettell (Alma): Spanish and Italian Folk-songs, reviewed, 356-357

Strain, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 202

"Stye" on eye, charm for cure of, 203, 205

Suicide, body of, buried out of sight of land and sea, 160

Sunday, superstitions about, 213

Sweating sickness, cure for, 265

"Sweet pinks and roses," American children's game, 138

Sweethearts, charms to obtain, 215

Sword dances by people of Ladakh valley, 282; of the High Alps, 312- 314

Table Mên, mythical Saxon kings said to have dined round, 101, 102

Tablets, Chinese ancestral, 237

"Take back," Barbadoes negro song, 8

Talland Church, building tradition, 25

Task, impossible, set to ghost to perform, 105

performed by Tregeagle, Cornish

Bluebeard, 100-101

Taylor (G.): on Folk-lore of aboriginal Formosa, 139-153

Teething, cure for, 267

Tenure, land; see "Land"

Tetters, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 201

Theatrical representations in Southern India by travelling troupes, 247

Thorn, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 200

suspended over door, Chinese birth custom, 222

Thousand and one Nights, Forbidden Doors of, 112-124

Threshing corn, fairy employed at, 179

Thrush, Indian, legend of, 354

Tintagel, traditions of, 86; tradition connected with bells, 33

"Tolcarn," tradition of rock called, 106

Toothache, charm for cures of, Cornwall, 201

Tormentil, cure for liver obstruction, 12

Touch, ordeal by, practised in Cornwall, 97

Towednack, ordeal by cock-crowing in, 96, 97

Treasure, buried, tradition of near Veryan, 30; at Pengersick Castle, 17

guarded by fairies, 185-186

Trecarrel, Cornwall, story of, 35

Tree-spirits connection between Chinese children and, 223-224

worship among the Coorgis of Southern India, 251

Trees, birds produced from, belief in Scotland, 262

branches of, offered to rock spirits in Guiana, 318

Tregeagle, Cornish Bluebeard traditions of, 99-100

"Troy Town," popular name for intricate places in Cornwall, 45

Truro, ceremony of renewing water-bounds of, 30-31

"Two by two," American children's game, 137

Tylor, (E. B.), witches' ladder in possession of, 5, 355-356

Ulster folk-lore, 66-68

folk-medicine, 11-13

Unicorn, presented to children at birth, 224

"Uppa, Uppa, Holye," Cornish boys' game, 61

"Wants," Cornish name for mole, 193

Warts, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 200

Irish plant-cure for, 13

Water from font used as charm, Cornwall, 194

Watercress, cure for king's evil, 13

Waterford, superstitions in, 72; witchcraft in, 266-267

Weather lore, Cornish sailors and fishermen's, 191

omens among fishermen in Cornwall, 188-189