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INDEX.

Bechuana, Red Riding Hood story,

167-168 Bee, sacred to Ange Patyai, Mordvin

goddess, 106 Bee-goddess, Mordvin, 71, 73 Beehive-god, Mordvin, 70 Bell, church, Easter customs connected

with, Spain, 174 , of St. Menance, superstition

about, 45 Beltane Eve, safeguards against witches

used on, 277 Bibliography of folklore, 3, 5-6 Birch-tree, custom connected with the,

Scotland, 42 , sacred to Mordvin goddess, 106,

107-108

-, branches of decoration with, on

May Day, 265 Birds, rhymes on, 249 , transformation of, into human

beings, China, 319 Birth, name-giving at, 160

customs, Coorg, 300

Blind (Karl\ Collection ofFollttnles in

Sclwols, 20-21 Blood of the sacrifice, Mordvin, 82, 84 Blood-feud, Coorg, 297 Boat wrecked by witchcraft, 283 Bonfires, Spanish, 174 Border-story of Rumpelstiltskin, 144-

145 Borneo, change of child's name during

sickness, 156 Borrowing theory of the origin of

folktales, 267 Brass, incapable of conveying infection,

62 Bread, folklore of, 195-198 Brownies in Sutherlandshire, 54 Brushfield (T. N.), Devomhire Notes,

265 Buddhist tales, 306-313 Buff, game of, 238-239 Bull sacrifice, Mordvin, 82 Bullein's Dialogue against the fever

pestilence, quoted, 188 Bumble-bees, objections to, Mordvin,

106 Burial places used as temples, Mord-

vins, 82 Burials, peculiar family, Ireland,

39 Burmah, prohibition against using the

sovereign's name, 158 Burmese folklore, 306-313 Burne (C. S.), BerhysMre Sayings,

291-293 ; Staffordshire Sayings,

294-295 ; Story of Solomon's Wisdom,

315-316 Butter churning and witchcraft, 278,

280-281 Butterfly, unluck of, Scotland, 43

Cairene folklore, 191-195

California, lizards believed to have been little men, 24-25

Carts, non-use of, in Scotland, 199

Cat and kitten, game of, 234

Caul, children's, legend of, Mordvin, 105

Celts, or arrow- points, belonged to little men, California, 24

Charm for restoring cow's milk, 281

Chelsea, proverbial saying relating to, 291

Cheremis tribe of the Mordvins, 128

Children, guardian spirit of, Mordvin, 72

China, practice of not uttering Em- peror's name, 128

Chinese zoological myths, 318-319

Choral games of children, Dorsetshire, 206-215

Christ and the swallow, tradition of, 56 ; and the dove, 57 ; the stork, 57

Christianity and paganism, 85, 87

Christmas, yeel bread at, 197

■ festival among the Chuvash,

130; Mordvin, 116-124

Christmas games, children, 236-247

Church-building legends, 152-153 ; in- cident in, 149

Chuvash tribe of the Mordvins, 128, 130

Clan sacrifice, Mordvin, 81-82, 89, 90- 101

Clavie custom at Burghead, 11-14, 46

Clodd (E.), African Folklore, 22-25 ; The Philosophy of Rumpelstiltskin, 135-163

Clouston (W. A.), Oi'iginals and Analogiies of Chaucer''s Canter- bury Tales reviewed, 63-64; Group of Eastern Romances and Stories from the Persian, Tamil, and Urdu reviewed, 266-267

Clyack ceremonies, 49

Cobbler, game of, 238

Cobbs off, game of, 235

Collection of folklore, position of the work, 2, 356

Communal characteristics of nature- spirits, Mordvins, 67

Congress of Folklorists at Paris, 275- 276