GENERAL INDEX.
Aberglaiibe ujid Strafrecht, Ein
Beitrag ztir Erforschung des Ein- Jlusses der Volksanschatiungen aitf
die Verubung von Verbrechen.
A. Lowenstimm, Vorwort von Dr.
Jos. Kohler, reviewed, 255 Abishag and Adonijah, 116 Aborigines of Australia, 98, 132 ; of
N. W. Central Queensland, Roth
on, 261 Abruzzi, the. Holy Week Observances
in, Signor de Nino, E. S. Hartland
and A. Nutt on, 362, 363 Absalom, takes David's harem, 116 Abydos, 164 Acanthus, the perforated vessel of,
and the Ocnus fable, 369 Achaian culture, in Homeric poems,
as shown by excavations, 1 13 Achaians, choice of a king by, 115 ;
suitors of Penelope, 112 Achilles, 102, 1 12 Adonijah and Abishag, 116 Adoption in Assyria, 167 Adrianople, Gypsy tale from, 226 Adventures transferred from one hero
to another, 266, 347 Aegis, the, 170
Aesop, Aramaic parallel tales, 165 Aeventyr collected by Kristensen,
206, 217, value of, 218 Africa, folklore of; animals as spirits
of the dead, 308 ; Bushman myths,
160 ; duties of chiefs in, 102, 103 :
Negro girls' use of fine clothes,
125 Agamemnon, loi, a hereditary ruler,
"5 Agariya, Dravidian tribe, India,
totemism of, &c., 169 Agloval, brother of Perceval li
Gallois, 359 Agora, the, loi, or Boule, 109, 115 ;
meetings suspended on death of a
King, 117 Ague, Lincolnshire cure for, 186 Albanesischcn Volkskundc, Ztir, von
Dr. Holger Pedersen, reviewed,
344
Alcathous, 178
Alexander and Soredamor, from Cliges, tale of, referred to, 181
Alexandria, its influence on early Christianity, 164
Alix, of France, 357
Alkinoos' garth, 102
Alligators devour Baiame's wives, 303
Altar, nature of, 179, the Soma altar in India, 184
Amadas and the corpse, Sir, and parallel tales, 236
Amazonian Matriarchy, the Origin of, by J. S. Stuart Glennie, 89
Ambeel, Syrian game, 9
Amboise, dragon's skin at, 73
America, folklore of; Florida, Negroes' preference for Bells in embroidery, 79 ; its influence on Syrian immi- grants, 3 ; North American Indians, temporary figures made by, 314; Blackfeet, their god Napi, 313 ; Navajo, rain ceremonies of, 279
Amulets, African, 161 ; Egyptian,
163
Anaesthetics, in fact and folklore,
234 Ancestor worship, 65, Dravidian, 109;
Jevons cited on, 313 Andamanese, myths of, but no ritual,
160 Andersen, H. C, stories of, 219 Andromache's speech on the deaa
Hector, 117 Andromeda and parallels, 12 1 Anemolylo, the disappearance of the
Nereid at, 342 Angel, in Grateful Dead tale, 230 ;
Raphael, as travelling companion
and parallels, 242, 243 Anglesea, belief in fertilization of
pea-hen, 82 Anglo-Saxon literature ; character- istics of, 42 ; influence on English
literature, 43 Animal folklore, see Alligator, Cow
Crocodile, Dragon, Fox, Hare
Hyena, Kangaroo, Lion, Porpoise,
Rabbit, Serpent, Snake, Wallaby
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