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INDEX.

Milking cow with a sieve, Lancashire

folktale, 60 Millet, sacred to Mordvin goddess,

106 Mills, fear of fairies working, 201 Mole, sign of person being a witch,

283 Monday, ploughing prohibited on,

Coorg, 297 Month, the Arabic, 195 Moon, hunting times of the lynx fixed

by, 56 •, prayer to, at New Year, Mord-

vins, 6&

god, Mordvin, 71

-, new, garments brushed at, 5-1

Mordvins, beliefs and religious cere- monies of, 65-135 Morris (Dr. R.), Death's Messenger,

179-191 Morris dance at Revesby, 331-355 Mother goddess, Mordvin, 70 Moths, white, rhymes on, 249 Moule (H. 3 .),J3atcovihe Cross, Dorset,

25-26 Mulberry bush, game of, 210 Mummers, Christmas, 216-247 Municipal custom at Dublin as to

beggars, 36 My little dog Buff, game of, 213-214 Myrrh used as preventive against witchcraft, 280

Name of wolf, taboo against, Scandi- navia, 55

Names, integral associations of persons with, 154-161

Nature spirits, Mordvins', 67

Necklace, fairies', 308

New Guinea, superstition in, 320-322

New Year's festival, Mordvin, 124-127

Nine men's morris, game of, 233

Norfolk harvest custom, 51

Northumberland, egg-giving at Easter, 318

Nursery rhymes, 254-257

Oat cakes, prevalence of, in Scotland,

196 Offerings made to malignant god,

Votyak, 129 Officials at the ceremonial sacrifices,

88-89 Om, mystical nameof, 155 Onions, sacred to Mordvin goddess,

106 Oranges and lemons, game of, 216

Ordish (T. F.), morris dance at Reves- by, 331-355

Pali texts quoted, 189-190

Pan, devil in shape of, 290

Pancake, used in Mordvin festival, 125

Paris, congress of folkiorists at, 275- 276

Parish, sacrificial feasts of, 90-101

Parrot, man turned into, Buddhist tale, 311

Peacock (E.), unlawful cures, 54-55 ; Scandinavian folklore, 55-57 ; Lancashire folldore,^^-^! ; Siderian folMore, 61-62 ; house custom, 315

Pig, sacrificial slaughter of, Mordvin, 116, 125

■-, unluck of meeting, Scotland, 45-

46

Pillar, bargains made at, Limerick, 37

Pins, used to find out witch, 279

Piozzi (Mrs.), autobiography quoted, 184

Pips, divinations from, 249

'F\tYc(fjf.),Bihlioteoa delle Tradizioni Popolari Slciliane reviewed, 322-330

Pitre (Dr.), collection of Sicilian folk- lore by, 62-63

Pitsligo, witch stories from, 278, 279, 281

Pixies, Devonshire, 265

Place rhyme, Irish, 37

Ploughing customs, Coorg, 297

, Scotland, 176-178

Ploughing and witchcraft, 284

Polynesia, prohibition against uttering chief's name, 158

Potatoes, spirits in, 54

Presents given to witch to secure good- will, 286

Procession of fishermen at Buckie, 46- 47

Proverbs, Derbyshire, 291-293 ; Staf- fordshire, 294-295 ; Irish, 35-38

Pyx, animals kneeling to, 26

Queen Anne, game of, 229

Rabbit, cunning of, Spanish folktales,

59-60 Rag image burnt by fishermen to avoid

ill-luck, 46 Rainbow, legend of, Mordvin, 1 05 Ralston (W. R. S.), death of, 370 Raven, white feather of the, a charm

56, dcA'il in shape of, 289