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INDEX.


Abercromby (Hon. Ralph) Cloudland in folk-lore and Science, 94-115
Abigail (St.) county Cork, 58
Aboriginal tribe feared by the conquering tribe, 64
Absence, lengthened, as if for a night, Aino, 34: China, 192; Sutherlandshire, 183-185; 217; Wales, 191
Achterneed, Ross-shire, folk-lore of, 262-265
Aino folk-lore, 1-51; 193-196; 271-273

America, Folk-Lore Society of, 84 Washington,

———— folk-lore of, 85-94; South, 210

American Indians, folk-lore of the Senecas, 196-199

Ancestral objects, sacredness of, Aino, 26, 49

Angler, the demon, Sutherlandshire, 164

Angus (St.) tombstone of, Balquhidder, 271

Animals assuming human shape, Aino, 10, 13, 14, 16, 22, 23, 24, 28, 42, 47; Sutherlandshire, 175, 176; Seneca Indians, 197; Hungarian, 208; Servian, 259, 261

———, fabulous, Washington, 90; Sutherlandshire, 246-252

——— grateful, assist man, Servian legend, 254

——— killed on St. Martin's Roscommon, 57

———, language of, Aino, 10

——— marriage of with human beings, Aino, 8, 11-13, 195

———, terms used for talking to, 142-143

April fools, county Clare, 54; Longford, 61

Apparitions, Sutherlandshire, 167, 238-241, 242

Arabian superstition, milk and lightning, 211

Archæological remains, folk-lore connected with, Dorset, 117

Architectural saint, Tyrone, 58; Sutherlandshire, 157

Aristophanes, on the Clouds, 111, 112-113

Armies, spectral, Sutherlandshire, 242

Arrow shooting in Sutherlandshire, folk-tale, 232

Ascension day, Welsh mining superstition about, 211

Ash, ceremony at birth, Prabhus, 76

——, veneration of, Ireland, 265

Assynt, noodle story of, 168-169

Astrology used at birth, Prabhus, 76

Austin (St.) well dedicated to, Dorset, 118

Axe, worship of the, Aino, 26


Babcock(W.H.) Folk-Tales and Folk-Lore collected in and near Washington, 85-94

Badger-goddess, Aino, 40

Balquhidder, folk-lore at, 268-271

Ballad, traditional, 144

Bamboo princess, Mentra, 74

Batchelor (Rev. J.) Some Specimens of Aino Folk-Lore, 193-196

Bear-goddess, man married to, Aino, 11-13, 36

Bears, trees turned into, Aino, 48; man turned into, Seneca, 197

Bees, told of death, Herts. 146

Beetle and the Virgin Mary, Sutherlandshire story, 161-162

Bell, sacred, used for discovery of thefts, &c. Clare, 53: Kildare, 53

Bells, church, disused during passion week, 146, 210

—— passing and funeral, Sutherlandshire, 243