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Index.
omens from, Ireland, 462, Jamaica,
93. 211,453. 455
Hephxstion, funeral pyre of, 392
Hera, myths of, 294, 301
Heraclea Pontica : Heracles planted oaks at Zeus' altar, 296 ; month called Apellaios, 420
Heracles, myths of, 279, 296-8, 301, 377-8, 393-4, 401-2,422
Heraclidae, return of to Peloponnesus, 289
Hercules, see Heracles
Herefordshire : customs, 221
Hermes : on coins and gems, 285 ; myths of, 279, 305; statues in Cera- micus &c., 284; two or three headed, 285, 290; "the very- leafy," 418
Herois solemnity, Delphi, 402, 406-8
Heron: myth of origin of, Greeks, 388
Herring fishing, see Fishing
Hertfordshire: relative nigrescence in,
234
Hervey islands, see Cook islands
Hestia, goddess of hearth, 311
Hiccup, charm against, Jamaica, 454
Hills: [see also under names); god of, Korea, 449
Hilo, in Hawaiian folktale, 217
Himalayan dialects, 222
Himalia the nymph, the story of, 26S
Hindi dialect, (Western), 222
Hindostan, see India
Hindus, see India
Hippodamia, story of, 38 1 -2, 388
Hippomenes, story of, 380
Hippomenes the Codrid, 397
Hippothous, King, see King Hip- pothous
Hlonipa or avoidance customs,amongst Kafirs, 226
Hog, see Pig
Holy Maul story, Guernsey, 123
Holy trees, see Trees in folklore
Holy wells, see Wells
Horn, fetish, as life-index. Upper Congo, 327-8
Horns: Ijurnt to free haunted house, Jamaica, 207; as mementoes of bull- running, Stamford, 202
Horse : ass with horse's feet, parish nickname, Guernsey, 123 ; blue necklaces &c., Jerusalem, 189 ; bridle in charm against mumps, Ireland, 460 ; charm to prevent winning race, Jamaica, 206, and to stop, Jamaica, 455 ; foal born on
Whit Monday buried, Louth, 347 ; in folktales, Gaels, 62, Somalis, 317-8, 326 ; imitated in charm against mumps, Ireland, 460; man- devouring, Greeks, 388; one head of fiend. Tibet, 95 (fi/ate) ; " three foot horse " a duppy, Jamaica, 90- 1, 211 ; white horses draw Olympic victor, 400
Horse-shoe : in charm against evil eye, Ireland, 458 ; keeps duppy away, Jamaica, 90, 456
Hottentots : Kidd's T/ie Essential Kafir reviewed, 224-6
Hound, see Dog
House : {^see also Threshold) ; adding to causes death, Jamaica, 207 ; hand of might in blue on front, Jerusalem, 189; omen from cracking of, Jamaica, 210, or piecing of, Jamaica, 453 ; uninhabited, spirits warned before entering, Jamaica, 456
How to choose a wife, Somali folk- tale, 323-4
Hull, Miss Eleanor: The Story of Deirdre, in its bearing on the Social Development of the Folk- tale, I, 24-39; review by, — Miss Faraday's The Cattle-raid of Cualnge, 235-8
Human bones, see Bones, human
Hungary, see Mag}'ars
Hunting : omen of, Jamaica, 455 ; times and observances taught, Maoris, 18
Hurdle: as witch's horse, Monmouth- shire, 80
Huts of dead destroyed, Basutos, 258
Hyaena : in folktale, Somalis, 324
Hyperippe, myth of, 389
lasus, son of Cory thus, 301 Ibadan : royal succession in, 98 Icarius, father of Penelope, 380 Ida, Mount, see Idaean cave Idaean cave : myths of, 389, 395 ;
poplar, 298 Iliad, conception of Zeus in, 265 Ilderton : {see also Roddam) ; bridal
party locked into church, and lifted
over ' stone,' 341-2 Ilex : branch in harvest custom, Kent,
464 Ilium, see Troy Illyria, see Ambracia : aiid Apollonia
