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 INDEX.

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Kavens. hero guided by in Hungarian folk-tale, 200, 202, 203

Raven's Rock, spirit of the, Sutherland- shire, 227

Red colour in folk-medicine, 116

Rich, methods of growing, Aino, 23

Riddles and rhymes, Sutherlandshire, 236-238

Ring, the lost wedding, Sutherland- shire tale, 180-181

River legend, Aino, 33, 46; Sutherland- shire, 223, 224

Roads, broad and narrow, choice of, Aino, 32

Ross-shire, folk-lore of, 262-265

Rungni, story of, 101

Russian marriage ceremony, 124

Rust (J. C.)) milk and lightning, Ara- bian, 211

Rutlandshire, Danes' Blood, 273

Sacrifice at threshold, Somali, 121, 123

of animal on St. Martin's eve,

Roscommon, 57

St. John's fires, Roscommon, 56 ; Ty- rone, 58

St. Martin's eve, animal killed on, Roscommon, 57; Wexford, 64

Salamander legend, Sutherlandshire, 157

Salmon, worship of, Aino, 33

Samoan fire legend, 147

Sanborn (John Wentworth), FolTi-Lore of the Seneca Indians of North America, 196-199

Saturday, unluck of, 61

Science and Folk-Lore, 112-115

Sea, origin of the, Mentra, 69-70

Sea-monster, Aino, 47

Selling by inch of candle, Somerset- shire, 144-145

Senanus, tradition of, Clare, 52-53

Seneca Indians, folk-lore of, 196-199

Serpent, hunter takes the form of in Hades, Aino, 35

Serpents, good and bad, Sutherland- shire, 232, 249

Servian folk-tale, the lame fox, 252- 262

Shadow, man's, seised by Satan, 152

Shark, story of the, Aino, 28

Shinny, game of, county Down, 59

Ship, seen in the clouds, 97, 105

Ships, battle with, in Malay folk-tale, 134-136

Shropshire proverbs, 273

Shrove Tuesday, weddings, Clare, 54;

Longford, 61 Sight, second, Sutherlandshire, 238-241 Silver castle, in Hungarian folk-tale,

202 use of, to wash new born in- fant, Sutherlandshire, 235 Singing games, Essex, 211 Sister, father's, right of, to name the

child, Prabhus, 76 Sister-in-law, compulsory marriage of,

Somali, 125 Sister marriage, Mentra legend, 67 Sky, raised by Belo, Mentra legend, 67 Sleeping king or hero, myth of, 164 Snake, birth of from a woman, Aino,

38 Sneezing omens, Washington, 92 Snow, hares made from, Aino, 9 Somali tribes, folk-lore of, 119-125 Somersetshire, selling custom in, 144-

145 Sons, custom of naming from, Mentra,

65 Spain, Eastern customs in, 146, 210 Spells, at Gretna, 189-90 Spirits in prison, fairies supposed to

be, 218 of the departed in Hades, Aino,

37 Sprite legend, Sutherlandshire, 188 Spynie, loch, legend of, 187 Star legend, Mentra, 68 Stephens, (St.) day, bull baiting on, co.

Longford, 62 Step-mother, jealous, story, Aino, 42 Stocking, throwing the, at weddings,

CO. Longford, 63 Stone, legend of ill luck from removal

of, Washington, 88 magic, inherited in a particular

family, 221 Stone with impress of knee on, Clare,

53 Stones, heaped up, to mark spots of

untimely death, 63 Story collecting in Japan, 1-2 Sun -god, intercourse with woman

causing birth of child, Aino, 38 Sun-legend, Mentra, 67 Sun-rising, Aino legends connected

with, 19, 21 Sun-worship by mother of new-bom

child, Prabhus, 77( Sutherlandshire, folk-lore of, 149-189; 215-252