Index.
55:
Sabbath-breaking : Donegal, 477;
Glos., 339 Sabbaths, see Rest Days Sacraments : India, 295-9 Sacrifice :
animal : — cock, Muppans, 41 ; cow, India, 291-9 ; flesh eaten, India, 298-9; at founda- tion laying, Balkans, 227 ; theory, 295 ;
hitman : — Congo, 216-7 '• ^^
foundation laying, Balkans,
227 ; Scotland, 125 ; Zulus,
271
Saffron : in folk-medicine, 496
Sailors' customs and beliefs, see
Sea customs and beliefs St Albin de Villards : exhibit, 146 St Alkmund, 384 St Beuno, 384 St Blathmac, 207 St Boniface's pence, 46 St Bride's Day : serpent worship,
500 St Brigit, 125
St Caimin of Iniscaltra, 206-7 St Cannara, 89-90 St Chad, 384 St Chrysostom, 219 St Clodock, 384 St Colman MacDuach, <S8 St Colomban de Villards : exhibit,
146 St Columba, 90 St Columcille, 125 St Cuthbert : cursed snakes, 51 ;
St C.'s beads, 45-6 St Declan, 207 St Demetra, 488-9 St Dubricius, 384 St Eadhelm, 333, 335 St Eldrade, 127 St Hilda, Whitby, 50-4 St John's wort : as amulet, 234 St Keyna, 53 St Luchtighern, 90 St Manawla, 90, 207 St Michael, 125 St Michael's Day, 352, 500 St Milborough, 3S4 St Mochulleus, 93 St Neot's (Hunts) : hiring fair, 352 St Patrick, 213 St Peter's Day : Feast, Hunts,
352 ; thorn-tree clipped etc.,
Cheshire, 203 St Peter's lingers, 45
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Saints' Days : {see also under
names) ; animals do not eat,
Weobley, 351-2 St Senan, 89, 207 St Weonard, 384 Salagrama, 58-60, 141, 407 Salemabad : salagrdnia, 407 Saliva : in cure, Japan, 190 ;
makes dead visible, Borneo,
408 Salt : in charm, Japan, 193 ; in
purificatory rite, Assam, 468-9 ;
in riddle, Armenians, 472 Salvage stock of Society's volumes,
II Salzburg ; marriage custom, 130 Sandford Orcas : clipping yew- tree, 203 San Salvador : " changing the
name," 461 ; food taboos, 348 ;
marriage custom, 461 Santa Cruz : totem clans, 313 Sta Fe de Bogota, see Bogota Sarawak, see Kenyahs Sarawak Museum Journal, The,
noticed, 408 Sardinia : Pettazoni's La Religione
Primitiva in Sardegna reviewed,
389-91 Sardus Pater, 389-90 Sark : water turns to blood, Xmas
Eve, 505 Sassafras-tree : in folk-medicine,
233 Saurians : bones of angels,
Whitby, 46 Savaras : 264 ; fetish worship,
140 ; milk offered, 287 Savoy : celts, 66 ; Canziani's
Costumes, Traditions and Songs
of S. reviewed, 126-8 ; exhibits
from, 3. 8, 146 Sawdust : as symbol of jilting.
Piedmont, 460 Scabs and itch, cure for, 493 Scales, pair of : in death custom,
Gaels, 500 Scammony : in folk-medicine, 495 Scandinavia : {see also Denmark ;
Iceland ; Norway ; Sweden) ;
celts, 66, 70 Scapegoat : Badagas, 140 Scattery island : churches, 210 ;
rock markings, 89 Schmidt, P. W. : Andrew Lang :
Folklorist and Critic, 371-5 Sciatica, cures for, 492-3
