Folk-Lore/Volume 32

by The Folk-Lore Society

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. XXXII.—1921

Alter et Idem

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY

WILLIAM GLAISHER, LTD., 265 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.

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1921

[LXXXI.]

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW.

CONTENTS.

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I. — (March, 1921.)
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Minutes of Meetings: January 19th and February 16th, 1921	i
Minutes of Meetings: November 17th and December 15th, 1920	1
The Forty-third Annual Report of the Council	3
Revenue Account and Balance Sheet	8
Presidential Address. W. H. R. Rivers, LL.D., D.Sc.	10
Some Notes on Zulu Religious Ideas. A. Werner	28
II. — (June, 1921.)
Minutes of Meetings: March 16th, April 20th, and May 18th, 1821	73
The Pre-Buddhist Religion of the Burmese. R. Grant Brown	77
List of Members	149
III. — (September, 1921.)
Minute of Meeting: June 15th, 1921	149
The Isles of the Blest. W. J. Perry	150
The Derbyshire Mumming Play of “St. George and the Dragon.” Collected by Gwen John	181
The Provenience of Certain Negro Folk-Tales. Elsie Clews Parsons	194
Garo Marriages. Sir J. G. Frazer	202
IV.—(December, 1921.)
The Mingling of Fairy and Witch Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland. Canon J. A. Macculloch, D.D.	227
Mystical and Ceremonial Avoidance of Contact with Inanimate Objects. F. W. H. Migeod	245
Somersetshire Folk-Lore	285
Collectanea:- —
⁠Legends from Tonga. F. E. Collcott	45
⁠Catalan Folklore. E. Sidney Hartland	58
⁠A Study of Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland. Thomas Johnson Westropp	101
⁠Scheme for the Collection of Rural Lore in Wales	123
⁠Rain-Making in India. J. D. Anderson	123
⁠Canadian Folklore. H. J. Rose	124
⁠Glastonbury and the Holy Grail. Jessie L. Weston	131
⁠Garo Marriages. T. C. Hodson	133
⁠The Succession of Saints. H. A. Rose	135
⁠The Mystery of the Lamb's Head	210
⁠The Taboo of Iron in Childbirth. M. C. Paddon	211
⁠Folk-Tales from the Panjab. Sir Lucas W. King	211
⁠Roumanian Tales. M. Gaster	213
⁠The Corn Baby in India	215
⁠Snake Stones. W. R. Halliday	262
⁠Folk-tales from the Panjab. Sir Lucas W. King	271
⁠Garo Marriages. T. C. Hodson	273
⁠A Children’s Game and the Lyke Wake. Professor Frank Granger	274
Correspondence:—
⁠H. Balfour. The Statues of Easter Island	70
⁠Honor M. Pulley. The Gray Palmer and Hylda	146
Reviews:—
⁠W. H. R. Rivers. Instinct and the Unconscious. R. R. Marett	60
⁠Von Dr. Géza Róheim. Spiegelzauber. E. Sidney Hartland	63
⁠P. Saintyves. Les Origines de la Médecine: Empirisme ou Magie? E. Sidney Hartland	64
⁠Edwin W. Smith and A. Murray Dale. The Ba-ila Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. W. Crooke	67
⁠A. W. Cardinall. The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast: their Customs, Religion and Folklore. L. H. D. Buxtor	69
⁠Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. A Garden of Herbs. W. Crooke	69
⁠Agnes Gardner King. Islands Ear Away. C. Jenkinson	136
⁠Rai Sahib Dineshchandra Sen. Folklore in Bengal. The Bengali Ramayanas and The Folk-Literature of Bengal. W. Crooke	137
⁠D. Jenness and the late Rev. A. Ballantyne. The Northern D’Entrecasteaux. E. Sidney Hartland	138
⁠Bertha S. Phillpotts. The Elder Edda and Ancient Scandinavian Drama. W. R. Halliday	141
⁠R. R. Marett. Psychology and Folk-Lore. E. Sidney Hartland	217
⁠Edwin Sidney Hartland. Primitive Society: the Beginnings of the Family and the Reckoning of Descent. E. N. Fallaize	219
⁠Carveth Read. The Origin of Man and of his Superstitions. A. C. Haddon	220
⁠Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy. Principles and Methods of Physical Anthropology. A. C. Haddon	224
⁠Rev. W. Deane. Fijian Society, or the Sociology and Psychology of the Fijians. Sir Everard im Thurn	278
⁠J. H. Mutton. The Angami Nagas, with some Notes on Neighbouring Tribes. W. Crooke	280
⁠F. Ohrt. Danmarks Trylleformles. E. Sidney Hartland	283
Short Notices:—
⁠The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society	283
⁠Jane Ellen Harrison. Epilogomena to the Study of Greek Religion	284
Index	286