Index.
521
Incantations, 230
Incendiarism to secure birth of son, Panjab, 392-3
Inclusae, or wall-dwelling holy women, 360
India, folklore of, {see Panjab), bridge crossed by soul after death, 349 ; cattle-switching and parallels, 180 ; Daitya demon, of, 173, Hadal demon, ib. ; infanticide of girl- babies and causes for, 436, 437 ; marriage customs in, 438, law of divorce, 409-10, the swayamvara, 429 ; sick children riding on bears, 155 ; Sati, 412 ; Yama, god of underworld, 301
" Infection theory " in Home of Eddie Poems, 455
Inheritance, modes of claiming, Indian folklore, 439
Initiatory ceremonies, {^see Bora), Indian folklore, 438-9
Insect folklore, Ants, 170, 215, riding- ants, 170; Beetles, 227 j Cricket, 416 ; Flies, 208 ; Lice, 196-7 ; Mosquitos, 208 ; Wasps, ib.; Witchetty-grub, 378
Instruction of Cuchullin, and parallels, 220
Inttchiuma ceremonies, Australia,
Invisibility, charm to secure, 171 ; in Indian folktales, 421
Invocation of saints, &c., India, 405, 420
Ireland, (see Cuchullin Saga) dangers of going out at night in, 122 ; The Couvade? 119; The Little Red Hen talc, 116, 361 ; death-warn- ing, 122, 248 ; Newts and asks, superstitions regarding, 251 ; size of fairies in, 360 ; Some Wexford Folklore, 362 ; tales, value of the older, 219; Starting a new House, 118 ; Traditions and Superstitions, Co. Louth, 119 ; war goddesses of, 455 ; white cattle of, 355
Iris, 302
Iron, {see Nails), 457, as charm against witchcraft, 364, dress and boots of, Greek tale, 501
Israelite ideas of God, 4, 5
Italy, {see Bologna, and Sicily), Holy Week Observance in the Abruzzi, III ; the Pesce Nicolo of Naples, 230 ; silence in mumming cere- monies of, 351 ;
Ithyphallic divinities, Scandinavia and
England, 482 Ivy worn by Summer in German sham
fights, 178 Izanagi and Izanami, Japanese gods
creation gods, 299, 300, 301, 304,
317, 318
Jack the Giant-Killer, oldest recorded form of tale, 242
Jalandhar, Saints of, 394
James, M. H., Cure for Ague, 365
Japan {see Mikados) dances of, 306, 307, divorce, in early myths, 301, houses set apart for birth, marriage and death, 300, 310-12; idols chained in, 420 ; washing of mourners, in, 302
Japanese Myth, by W. G. Aston,
294 ;
The Sacred books of Japan, 294 The Mythical Narrative, 297 The Place of Shinto in the Science of Religion, 313 Jar, unused, in Aeginetan lot custom,
155 Jaro, the sorcerer, Baloch hero, 393 Jay, {see also Blue Jay), in Australian
myths, 50 Jealousy, wifely, in Indian folk-tales,
423 Jephthah's daughter, Indian variant,
408 Jevons, F. B., The Place of Totemism
in the Evolution of Religion, 369 Jewel-spear, of heaven, Japan, proba- ble origin of, 299 Jewels, Kami, Ja]Dan, 317 ;
in myth, ib., 306
Jewish, {see also Israelite), search for
Moses, Cos, 176 Jimmu Tennij, first Mikado, date of,
294, his father, 312 Jones, Bryan J., Traditions and
Superstitions collected at Kilcurry
Co. Louth, {i/iap), with comments
by W. B. Yeats, 119 Judas, straw effigy of burned, Cos
etc., 178 Juno's lustration, Japanese parallel,
302
Kaffir metaphysician, a, 9 Kagura dances, Japan, 307 Kaleva, giant, legend of, 107 Kalevala, the, Abercromby on, 105 Kalevipoeg's stone-throwing, 107
