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Index.
Rome : annual scapegoat, 434 ;
folktales, 192-3 Ronga, sec Ba-Ronga Roof: opened to release soul after
death, Scandinavia. 370 Roscommon : Hallowe'en customs,
437-8 Roseberry Topping: well legend, 277 Ross : yew-tree, 34 Rotterdam : string game, 328 Rotuma island : bathing, ritual, 264 Roumania : string games, 325-8 Roundwood : burial of amputated
arm, 83 Rouse, W. H. D. : Presidential
Address, 4, 6, 12-23 Rowan, see Mountain ash Royal Irish Academy : Todd Lecture
Series, vols. IX, XIII, and XIV
reviewed, 224-31 Russalki, river gods, Russia, 273 Russia : (see also Esthonia ; Finland ;
Georgia ; Lithuania ; Livonia ;
Poland ; and Siberia) ; folktales,
192-3 ; ordeal, 373 ; river gods, 273 ;
unbaptized, fate of, 273 Rygen : suicides, burial customs for,
372 Rytiiour Club, The, Edinburgh, Mis- cellanea, reviewed, 246-7
Sabaki river : unchaste maidens
drowned in, Gallas, 325 Sabbath : Buddhist, 411 ; Jewish,
411-4 Sabians, see Harranians Sable skin worn by Armenian clergy.
432-3 Sac Indians : fasting after death, 399
Sacrifice :
animal, — bones not injured, Pales- tine, 66 ; of buffalo, to village spirits, India, 335 ; of bull, Mar- seilles, 434-5; of calf for stillborn, Bohemia, 271 ; must be clean, Egypt, 394 ; of cock, at new house, Palestine, 58 ; of doves to Adonis, 295 ; for expiation of sins, Armenia, 434 ; not female, India, 394 ; of goat, Corinth, 19, Ewe, 468, Palestine, 66-7, Sierra Leone Protectorate, 426 ; of hen, at birth, Palestine, 65 ; to Isis, Egypt, 393 ; at Moslem shrines, Palestine, 58-9 ; of ram, Palestine, 56 ; of sheep, at cir- cumcision &c., Palestine, 65-6,
and to village spirits, India, 335 ; victim must fast, Morocco &c., 394-5, and be without blemish, Jews, 394 at birth, Palestine, 65 ; fasting be- fore sacrifice, Egypt, India, &c., 393,395-7; at foundation, jatakas, 21 ;
human, — at birth of chiefs child, Kafirs, 345 ; on crossing rivers, Franks, 276 ; not female, India, 394 ; at foundation, jatakas, 21 ; to rain god, Aztecs, 276 ; to rivers, India &c., 276; victim must fast, Kandhs &c. , 394-5; to wells and rivers, 275-6, 280 ; without blemish, India, 394 ; to jinn, Algiers, 246 ; to manes, China, 403 ; at marriages, Palestine, 66 ; at new camping ground, Pales- tine, 68 ; vegetable offerings with- out leaven or honey, Jews, 394 ; to water, against barrenness, Servia, 271 St Anna : takes charge of stillborn,
Bohemia, 270 St Anthony : the Hermit, 190 ; in- voked in bathing, Palestine, 61 St Bede's well, Jarrow, 255 St Brigit : in household charms, Con- naught, 349 ; in house near hearth, Connaught, 349 ; mantle hung on sunbeam, 349 St Cergues-sur-Nyon : portraits ob- jected to, 83 St Chrysostom : praise of fasting,
392 St Columba : hymn as charm, 348 St Columcille : voyage of three clerics,
157-8, 160-1 St Domenico of Foligno, 189-91,
[plate), 216 St Domenico's Feast : at CocuUo,
May, 187-91 [plate) St Elias, see Elijah
St George : cave of, Mt. Carmel, 69;
favourite saint of Arabs, 61 ; invoked
in bathing &c., Palestine, 61-2;
killed dragon, Beirut, 61
St Gover, 265
St Hawthorne's well : cures skin
diseases, 265 St Helen's well, Eshton : Sunday
custom, 257 St Keyne, 265
St Levan's well : legend of saint, 257-8
