Spinning done by men and women of Spiti valley, 280
parties in Donegal, 332
Spirits given to infant at birth, 331
Spiti Valley, Himalayas, dance by people of, 279-281
Spitting used in charming, Cornwall, 199
Sprinkling rooms with water, Chinese birth-custom, 222-223
Stone, sacred, form of oath among the Somali tribe, 322
Stone-circle at Buryan, tradition of origin of, 104-105
Stones called "apron strings" in Cornwall, story of, 27
Stones, holed, diseases cured at, Cornwall, 31
Storm-god, Cornish legend of, 106-107
Story-tellers among aborigines of Formosa, 139
Strettell (Alma): Spanish and Italian Folk-songs, reviewed, 356-357
Strain, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 202
"Stye" on eye, charm for cure of, 203, 205
Suicide, body of, buried out of sight of land and sea, 160
Sunday, superstitions about, 213
Sweating sickness, cure for, 265
"Sweet pinks and roses," American children's game, 138
Sweethearts, charms to obtain, 215
Sword dances by people of Ladakh valley, 282; of the High Alps, 312- 314
Table Mên, mythical Saxon kings said to have dined round, 101, 102
Tablets, Chinese ancestral, 237
"Take back," Barbadoes negro song, 8
Talland Church, building tradition, 25
Task, impossible, set to ghost to perform, 105
performed by Tregeagle, Cornish
Bluebeard, 100-101
Taylor (G.): on Folk-lore of aboriginal Formosa, 139-153
Teething, cure for, 267
Tenure, land; see "Land"
Tetters, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 201
Theatrical representations in Southern India by travelling troupes, 247
Thorn, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 200
suspended over door, Chinese birth custom, 222
Thousand and one Nights, Forbidden Doors of, 112-124
Threshing corn, fairy employed at, 179
Thrush, Indian, legend of, 354
Tintagel, traditions of, 86; tradition connected with bells, 33
"Tolcarn," tradition of rock called, 106
Toothache, charm for cures of, Cornwall, 201
Tormentil, cure for liver obstruction, 12
Touch, ordeal by, practised in Cornwall, 97
Towednack, ordeal by cock-crowing in, 96, 97
Treasure, buried, tradition of near Veryan, 30; at Pengersick Castle, 17
guarded by fairies, 185-186
Trecarrel, Cornwall, story of, 35
Tree-spirits connection between Chinese children and, 223-224
worship among the Coorgis of Southern India, 251
Trees, birds produced from, belief in Scotland, 262
branches of, offered to rock spirits in Guiana, 318
Tregeagle, Cornish Bluebeard traditions of, 99-100
"Troy Town," popular name for intricate places in Cornwall, 45
Truro, ceremony of renewing water-bounds of, 30-31
"Two by two," American children's game, 137
Tylor, (E. B.), witches' ladder in possession of, 5, 355-356
Ulster folk-lore, 66-68
folk-medicine, 11-13
Unicorn, presented to children at birth, 224
"Uppa, Uppa, Holye," Cornish boys' game, 61
"Wants," Cornish name for mole, 193
Warts, charms for cure of, Cornwall, 200
Irish plant-cure for, 13
Water from font used as charm, Cornwall, 194
Watercress, cure for king's evil, 13
Waterford, superstitions in, 72; witchcraft in, 266-267
Weather lore, Cornish sailors and fishermen's, 191
omens among fishermen in Cornwall, 188-189
