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INDEX.
Accidental element in Folk-tales, theory as to, 348
Accounts, 361
"Accroshay," Cornish boy's game, 60
Acrostics worn as charms, Cornwall, 196, 197
Africa, dances of primitive people of, 246-254, 278-314
Agricultural custom of Bábar tribe, 352
Agriculture affected by burial of suicide in sight of land, belief in, 160
Ague, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 202
Aïssaoua, dances performed by sect called, 289
Alfred, King, and the cakes, parallel story to, 263
Algiers, religious and secular dances of, 286-291
, dress of people of, 286-288
Alkathoia, Greek feasts called, 292
Alps, High, Dance of the, 312-314
American song-games and wonder-tales, 134-139
Ancestor worship among the Chinese, 236
Ancestral halls built by families for worship of ancestors, 237
tablets of Chinese, 237
Annual meeting, 362
"Angelina Baker," Barbadoes negro song, 7
Animal traditions of Roraima and British Guiana, 316-318
Animals taking human form, belief in, Formosa, 151
, in Cornwall, 189
, sacrifice of, in Cornwall, to remove ill-luck, 1 95
, worship of, at Chinese funerals, 242
Antrim, Ireland, customs in, 333
Ants as large as dogs, in Forbidden Door story, 117
Apes, men dwelling with, in Forbidden Door story, 117
Apparitions in Cornish coast among fishermen, 189
among aboriginal Formosa, 147
of coach and headless horses, Cornish, 26
of white lady at Marazion, 14; at St. Ives, 96
in Martinique, 316
Aprons, number of, sign of wealth of Greek girls, 295
Apron-string, tradition of stones so called in Cornwall, 27
Arabic proverbs, 263
Arbuthnot (F. F.): Persian Portraits, reviewed, 271-272
Ardmore, co. Waterford, superstitions at, 72
Arthur, King, castle of, 86
, traditions of, 87
, battle fought by, at Vellan Drucher Moor, 101
Arundells, Cornwall, story of, 35
Ashby (W. H.): on Somersetshire witches' ladder, 82-83; on Somersetshire witches' tales, 161-162
Asia, dances of certain primitive peoples of, 246-254, 273-314
Assam, dance executed by the hill tribes of, 273-276
Australia, use of feathers by medicine doctor in, 82-83
Bábar tribe, agricultural custom of, 352
Babcock (W. H.), on American children's song-game and wonder-tales, 134-139
Babies, superstition connected with, 208, 209, 210
