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Index.

465

Gipsies : marriage rites, East Anglia, 238, Transylvania, 244

Girls, see Women

Gishkauris, Balochi tribe, 258

Glamorganshire : {see also Swansea) ; new-married pair barred till toll paid, 232

Glasgow : St. Kentigern, 217

Gloucestershire, see Hudnalls ; New- lands ; St. Briavel's ; and White- brook

Goat : child put bodily inside, as remedy, Bloemfontein, 181 ; dung drunk for measles &c., Transvaal, 71-2, and used for casting lots, Baloches, 264 ; sacrificed at Balochi shrine, 263 ; in tale of Balochi saint, 262 ; white, sacrificed at "long ju-ju," Niger delta, 167-9

Gobag, the venomous month, Heb- rides, 40

Goblins : Chitral, 183-4 : Faroe islands, 184-5 '■> Isle of Man, 186-7

G6davari : fire-walking, 90

Godiva^story, 175

Gods, see Creator ; Deity, conceptions of ; and under various tiames of gods

Gog and Magog, nations of, in variant of Letter of Toledo, 128-29, 132

Gohei, Japanese, 24

Golden Bough, The, A Study in Magic and Religion : views in dis- cussed by E. W. Brabrook, 14-6

Gold of Ophir, The, Whence brought

\^ and by Whom, by A. Keane, re- viewed, 218-9

Gomme, Mrs. A. B. : Boer Folk- medicine and some Parallels, 69-75, 181-2 ; Harvest Customs, 113, 177-9 ; London Folk-Etymology, 204 ; review by, — Headland's Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, 108-9

Gomme, G. L. : on totemism, 395-6 ; review by, Seebohm's Tribal Cus- tom in Anglo-Saxon Law, 97-IOI

Goodenough, Mrs., The Sister's Son in Samoa, 199-201

Good Friday : baking blest on. Ken- net Valley, 423 ; cakes made on good for internal troubles, St. Briavel's, 173 ; loaf baked on never mouldy, and good for whoop- ing cough, Kennet Valley, 423 ; washing and drying cursed on, Kennet Valley, 423, St. Briavel's, 175 ; in weather saying, Kennet

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Valley, 423 ; yeast shows cross on, Kennel Valley, 423

Gooding Day, see St. Thomas' Day

Goodrich-Freer, Miss A., More Folk- lore from the Hebrides, i, 29-62

Goose : in group names, Sioux, 388 ; village sobriquet, Devon, 386 ; as weather omen, St. Briavel's, 172

Gorishanis, Balochi tribe, 259

Grantham: in jingle, 91

Grafting vines, see Vine-grafting

Grass, dried, festooned from trees, Pongul, 77

Grass mouse, Gaelic name of field mouse, 35

Graves : among Baloches, 266 : dressed with flowers. Palm Sunday, St. Briavel's, 174 ; news got from spirit by lying on. Touaregs, 285 ; offerings at, Japan, 276-7 ; slabs at head and foot, Touaregs, 287

Greek civilisation : Prof. Ridge- way's views on, discussed by A. Nutt, 84-7

Greek folklore : {see also Achcean ; Achaia ; Achilles ; Arcadians ; Athens ; Eurytus ; Greek civilisa- tion ; Hephaistos ; Odysseus ; atui Polyphemus) ; marriage rites, 245

Green : names for less definite than red, Torres Straits, 102

Green fly, see Aphis

Greg, W. W. : short notices by, Rickert's Marie de Frajtce ; Seven of her Lays done into Etiglish, and Weston's Morien, A Metrical Ro- matice rendered into English prose from the Mediirval Dutch, 222-3 > Weston's Sir Cleges ; Sir Libeaus Desconus, 447-8

Grey : cat and snail favourites of fairies, Westruther, 178-9 ; in dream unlucky, Hebrides, 51-2 ; horse as omen, Hebrides, 49

Grove, Miss F., death of, 5, 27

Grubs as food, C. Australia, 407

Guatemala : naguals, 360 Guernsey, islanders nicknamed "don- keys," 396 : St. Patrick banished all reptiles, 396 Guisborough : brides stand on stone,

23s Guisers, 107 Gujarat, see Charans Gurchanis, Balochi tribe, 259, 267-8 Gurdaspur : ceremonies to avert evil

births, 66