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FOLK-LORE

A QUARTERLY REVIEW

OF

MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM

BEING

The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society

And Incorporating The Archæological Review and
The Folk-Lore Journal

VOL. XXVI. — 1915

Alter et Idem

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY

SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.

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1915

[LXXV.]

GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.

CONTENTS.

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I.—(March, 1915.)
PAGE
Minutes of Meetings: January 20th and February 17th, 1915		1
Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Council		3
Cash Account for 1914		8
Presidential Address: War and Savagery. R. R. Marett		10
The Dasahra: an Autumn Festival of the Hindus. W. Crooke		28
Some Notes on East African Folklore. A. Werner		60
A Priest King in Nigeria. P. A. Talbot		79
II.—(June, 1915.)
Minutes of Meetings: March 17th, April 21st, and May 19th, 1915		113
Psychology and Ethnology. A. M. Hocart		115
Myths of Origin and the Home of the Dead in Indonesia. W. J. Perry		138
III.—(September, 1915.)
Some Algerian Superstitions noted among the Shawia Berbers of the Aurès Mountains and their Nomad Neighbours. M. W. Hilton-Simpson		225
Obeah in the West Indies. His Honour J. S. Udal, F.S.A.		255
IV.—(December, 1915.)
Minutes of Meetings: June 16th and November 17th, 1915		337
The Religious Basis of Social Union. Dr. F. W. Bussell		339
Catalogue of Brand Material. C. S. Burne		358
Collectanea:—
Folk-Tales of the Angāmi Nāgas of Assam, II. J. H. Hutton		82
Folklore of the Waldenses Valley. Ethel Hargrove		88
Folklore Notes from South-East Australia. Wilton Hack		90
Offering of a Wax Figure with an English Arrow at Boulogne. A. B. Gomme		92
North China: Surgical Operations. Nursing Times, 24th February, 1912		92
Listener to the Dead. W. Crooke		93
Scottish Folklore. The Reminiscences of Lady Wake		93
Worcestershire Folklore. M. L. Stanton, J. B. Partridge, and F. S. Potter		94
Scraps of Folklore collected by John Philipps Emslie. C. S. Burne		153
Folklore of the War		171
Some Nature Myths from Samoa. G. Brown, D.D.		172
Folk Tales from Co. Mayo, Ireland. L. McManus		182
Notes on Guernsey Folklore. Christine Ozanne		195
Gulliver among the Lilliputians in the Twelfth Century, and the Tale of the Dog-headed Men. M. Gaster		202
Burning the Yule Log in Montenegro. M. Edith Durham		207
Notes on Scottish Folklore. G. A. Lebour		208
Folklore Scraps—England. E. H. and H. J. Rose		210
Lancashire Folklore. J. B. Partridge		211
Wiltshire Folklore. J. B. Partridge		211
Folklore from Durham. J. B. Partridge		212
Baptism Folklore. Ronald Burn		213
Goats and Cattle. J. T. Fowler		213
Welsh Folklore. The Gloucestershire Echo, 14th October, 1914		213
An Animal Belief. P. J. Heather		214
Roumanian Folk Tales. Frances Browne		296, 389
Bringing in the Fly. Percy Manning		400
Notes on Spanish Amulets. Fourth Series. W. L. Hildburgh		404
Folk Tales from Malabar. F. Fawcett		417
Correspondence:—
The Death Coach. J. E. Harrison and M. E. Murray		98
Gypsy Carol. E. M. Leather		99
Children’s Game. Doris L. MacKinnon		215
The Death Coach. L. M. Eyre		215
Obituary:—
Lucy Catherine Lloyd. C. S. Burne		99
Major A. J. N. Tremearne. A. C Haddon		431
Reviews:—
Walter Map. De Nugis Curialium. E. Sidney Hartland		101
Arnold van Gennep. Religions, Mœurs et Légendes. E. Sidney Hartland		104
E. W. Swanton and P. Woods. Bygone Haslemere. C. S. Burne		106
E. C. Quiggin. Essays and Studies presented to William Ridgeway on his Sixtieth Birthday. W. H. D. Rouse		107
W. H. R. Rivers. The History of Melanesian Society. E. Sidney Hartland		216
Arthur Bernard Cook. Zeus, a Study of Ancient Religion. W. Crooke		221
Gladys M. N. Davis. The Asiatic Dionysos. W. Crooke		221
James P. Howley. The Beothucks or Red Indians, the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland. E. Sidney Hartland		330
Sir James Wilson. Lowland Scotch as Spoken in the Lower Strathearn District of Perthshire. C. S. Burne		335
M. A. Czaplicka. Aboriginal Siberia. E. Sidney Hartland		418
Sir Herbert Risley. The People of India. M. Longworth Dames		422
R. E. Enthoven. Folklore Notes.W. Crooke		424
Mrs. John Roberts. Khasi Folklore. W. Crooke		424
Thakur Rajendra Singh. Legends of Vikramaditya. W. Crooke		424
Short Bibliographical Notices:—
A. J. N. Tremearne. The Ban of the Bori		108
R. R. Marett. The Threshold of Religion		109
Rendall Harris. Boanerges		109
E. S. Hartland. Ritual and Belief		110
H. A. Rose. Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-Western Provinces		111
H. Parker. Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon		223
J. G. Frazer, Kt. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Third Edition		224
Grace Cleveland Porter and Harvey Worthington Loomis. Negro Folk Singing-Games and Folk Games of the Habitants		427
W. R. Paton and W. R. Halliday. Modern Greek Carols in Honour of St. Basil		427
W. H. R. Rivers. Sun Cult and Megaliths in Oceania		428
Douglas Hyde. Legends of Saints and Sinners		429
List of Plates:—
I.	Spanish Amulets	To face page 406
II.	„ „	„ „ 408