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 286 Sweating-houses, use of, in Tyrone, 59

Sweno, legend of, Sutherlandshire, 150-151

Tailor and the skeleton, Sutherlandshire story, 160-161

Tales, telling of, used for punishing the wicked, Aino, 41; told in county Longford, 62; Roscommon, 56; Seneca Indians, 196; See "Story"

Tasks, three, Servian story, 252

Theim-orrim, an Irish instrument of torture, 59

Thief, the master, Sutherlandshire story, 187

Thor's chariot drawn by goats, origin of legend, 101

—— one-eyed, origin of in cloud form, 110

Thorn trees protected by wee folk, Antrim. 56; Down, 60

Threshold, sacrifice at, on bride entering the house, Somali, 121

—— sprinkled with blood on St. Martin's eve, Roscommon, 57

Thunder, representation of during Passion Week, 210

Thunder Gods, loves of the, Aino folk-tale, 8

Tide, death as it recedes, Sutherlandshire, 243

Tide-Lore, Maori, 277

Tiger deceived by the fox, Aino, 18

—— origin of in Mentra legend, 67

Time, absence for a year as if for a day, Aino, 34

Tortoise and the owl, Aino folk-tale, 9

Traill (D.H.), Fairy Tales with Morals, 79-80

Treasure legend, Sutherlandshire, 171, near Washington, 88-89; Wales, 125-128

Tree-gods, Aino, 20, 24, 36, 48, 49

Trees, apparition of to murderer, Sutherlandshire story, 171

—— mankind turned into, Mentra legend, 67

—— protected by wee-folk, 56, 266

—— sacred, Ireland, 266

Turquoise ring used as charm, Turkey, 216

Turkish superstition, turquoise ring, 216

Twardowsky, legend of, 151

Vaugh, spirit of the river, Sutherlandshire, 223, 224

Wakes, coonty Clare, 55; Cork, 63; Roscommon, 57; Westmeath, 61

Wales, legends of, 125-128, 191-193; mining superstition of, 211

War legend, Aino, 49, 50, 195

Warts, charms for, Washington, 93

Water, origin of, Mentra, 69-70

——reflection of heroine's face in, Hungarian folk-tale, 207

Weather omens. 91, 97, 235

Wells, holy, county Antrim, 55; Clare, 52, 54; Cork, 63, 266; Dorset, 118; Down, 60; Longford, 61, 62; Queen's county, 61; Roscommon, 56; Sligo, 52; Sutherlandshire, 244; Tyrone, 52; Wexford, 63

Whistling, folk-lore, of 209-210, 276-277

Whooping cough, Ross-shire, 263

Wicklow, Devil's Glen, 274

Widow marriage, Somali, 125

Winter, personification of, in Hungarian folk-tale, 200

Winterborne, Dorset legend of the, 117

Wisdom, obtained from serpent's broth,

Wishing wells, Dorset, 118

Witches and kelpies, Sutherlandshire, 221-229

—— belief in, Down, 60; Gretna, 189-190; Roscommon, 56

Wizard legends, Sutherlandshire, 1 52, 167-168, 187

Wolf legend, Sutherlandshire, 249

Woman's love, Aino legend, 194

Women, whistling, unluck of, 209, 276-277

Wooden image, sacred, Ireland, 53

Wraiths, Sutherlandshire, 240, 243

Wratislaw (Rev. A. H.), The Three Lemons, 199-209; The Lame Fox, 252-262

Wren-boys, county Clare, 54

Wrens and the fox, Sutherlandshire story, 251

Yoshitsune, legend of, Aino, 194

Youngest brother, in Servian story, 253; Sutherlandshire legend

Zenogue (St.), co. Cork, 63