INDEX.
; Canton, 196 ; Cheshire, 227 ;
Greece, 157, 219-220; Neapolitan,
31; Savage, 110-112; Switzerland,
380-381 ; Tiree, 167 ; Wurtemberg,
383; May, 157; under trees by
fairies, 91
May-chafer and May songs, 297-298 ;
in Germany, 187-190
May day customs (Italy), 297 ; Spain,
298 ; Provence, 301
May-day festivals, 153-163, 187-190
May-marriages, lucky in Greece, 157
May plays, 163, 189-190
May- poles in Essex, 157 ; Warwick-
shire (1759;, 353
May songs, 153-163, 187-190, 297-298
Maya witch story, 250
Mermaid tradition, 31 ; Irish story of
a, 330
Michaelmas legend (Cornish), 365
Milk, customs connected with, on
Whitsunday, 353
Money omen, 219
Monkey as cure for children's com-
plaints, 195
Monmouthshire folk-lore notes, 378-
379
Moore (T. H.), Chilian fairy tale by,
221-226
Morris dance, derivation of, 122-123
Myrtle foretells wedding (Greece), 383
Myths, parallels of, 112
Music among the Malagasy, 99-100
Nature myth (Malagasy), 310
Neapolitan custom, 30-31, 195-196
Neem trees, legend connected with
(India), 376
New Year custom in Orkney, 332 ; in
Basingstoke Church, 333 ; Sussex,
-193
Nine, sacred number, 167
Normandy, witchcraft in, 331
Northallerton, riding the stang at, 59
Notes, folk-lore, 28-31, 59-62, 90-93,
-124, 166-168, 191-196,226-229,
-270, 297-302, 330-335,363-365,
-398
Notices and News, 32, 62-64, 94-96,
-128,168,197-200, 229-232,270-
, 302-304, 335-336, 365-368, 399-
Numbers, lucky (Magyar), 356 ; an-
lucky, 363
Nursery rhymes, 90, 92
Nutt (A.), on additions to Branwen,
; Irish parallel tale to Branwen,
; Irish folk-lore jottings, 330;
Eichmond Castle tradition, 193-194;
notes on the Robin-cycle, 166; variant
of Sindbad, 93
Oberle (K. A.), TJehcrregte German'
ischen Heidenthnms im Christen'
thum, notice of, 199
Omens among the Greeks, 217-220;
evil, meeting a hare, 85, 87 ; ill,
Magyar, and some parallels, 354-355
" Oranges and lemons," singing-game
(Derbyshire), 386; Malagasy equi-
valent to, 98
Orkney, New Year custom in, 332
Otter's bladder used to cure gravel
complaint, 124
Owl, uncanny bird (Yucatan), 248
Palmer (Rev. A. S.), an Irish folk-
tale by, 256-257 ; FvlJt Etymology ^
notice of, 126
Panjabi and other proverbs, 175-184
Peacock (Edward), early notices of
folk-lore in Yorkshire by, 61 ; stone
celts as thunderbolts, 191; "Bogle
Hole," 226; Monmouthshire folk-
lore notes, 378-379
Peacocks foreboding ill-luck, 227 ;
feathers unlucky, 93
Peepui tree held as sacred (India), 375
Persian folk-lore, 194-195
Peshawur, folk-lore of, 324-330
Pigeons' feathers in pillows, 300
Pigs, custom connected with, 382
Pito-real, herb invisible to man,
magical powers of (Spain), 295
Plover, said to have betrayed Christ
(Magyar), 358
PolyiKsia, rain-maker's customs in, 215
Poppy seeds sent as Valentines
(Magyar), 357
Provence, May-day customs in, 301
Proverbs, Babylonians, 21 ; Malagasy,
38; Panjabi, 175-184; Sanskrit,
177 ; on rain, 267-268 ; on dogs, 92;
Welsh and Irish collection of, 93
Proverbs in regard to education of
children, 258-266
Psychology and education, folk-lore in
relation to, 258-266
Punning in Malagasy songs, 67
Queries, 32, 61-62, 93, 125, 197, 270,
302, 335, 365
Rain, customs for procuring, Croatia,
- Peshawur, 325-328
Rain saints, 246, 267 ; see " St
S within'"
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