Folk-Lore/Volume 27

by The Folk-Lore Society

FOLK-LORE

A QUARTERLY REVIEW

OF

MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM

BEING

The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society

And Incorporating The Archæological Review and
The Folk-Lore Journal

VOL. XXVII.—1916

Alter et Idem

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY

SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.

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1916

[LXXVI.]

GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.

CONTENTS.

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I.—(March, 1916.)
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Minutes of Meetings: December 15th, 1915; January 19th and February 16th, 1916		1
Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Council		4
Cash Account for 1915		8
Report of the Brand Committee to the Council of the Society		10
Presidential Address: Primitive Values. R. R. Marett		12
Mabinogion. Joseph Baudiš		31
Catalogue of Brand Material. C. S. Burne		69
II.—(June, 1916.)
Minutes of Meetings: March 15th, April 12th, and May 17th, 1916		113
Folk-Lore of the Banyanja. Madeleine Holland		116
Masks and the Origin of the Greek Drama. Dr. F. B. Jevons		171
Catalogue of Brand Material. C. S. Burne		193
III.—(September, 1916.)
Minutes of Meeting: June 21st, 1916		237
Examples of Folk Memory from Staffordshire. Sambrooke A. H. Burne		239
Some Characteristics of Irish Folklore. D. H. Moutray Read		250
Three Lives of Saints: their bearing on Folklore. P. J. Heather		279
IV.—(December, 1916.)
Minutes of Meetings: 15th November, 1916		349
The Magical and Ceremonial Uses of Fire. Winifred S. Blackman		352
The Folklore of Shakespeare. Henry B. Wheatley		378
Collectanea:—
Folk-Lore and Legends from the Coasts of Counties Mayo and Galway. T. J. Westropp		99
The Pharmakos. Morley Roberts		218
Burial Face Downwards to prevent the Return of the Ghost		224
Folk-Lore and Legends from the Coasts of Counties Mayo and Galway. T. J. Westropp		225
The Pharmakos. Jane E. Harrison		298
Superstition in Essex		299
At the Breden Stone		300
Christmas Mumming in Ireland. Bryan Jones		301
Notes on Folklore. J. B. Partridge		307
A Folk-Tale from Asia Minor. Mary Mason Poynter		311
Bibliography of the Writings of the late Sir Laurence Gomme on Anthropology and Folklore. Alice B. Gomme		408
Notes on English Folklore. Ella M. Leather		413
Folklore from India		418
Notes on Irish Folklore		419
Folk-Tales from the Tonga Islands. Rev. G. Brown, D.D. 426
The Bur or Borough Man		432
Betrothal Custom in North Wales. W. Crooke		432
Marriage Customs in Cromarty. L. E. Ashton-Rigby		433
The Worship of the God Obalufou: Cursing to obtain a Blessing		433
Obituaries:—
Right Hon. Sir John Rhys. E. Sidney Hartland		110
Sir George Laurence Gomme. E. Clodd		111
Giuseppe Pitrè. Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco		314
Marian Emily Roalfe Cox. Charlotte S. Burne		434
Reviews:—
Sarat Chandra Roy. The Oraons of Chota Nagpur: Their History, Economic Life, and Social Organization. R. V. Russell		107
Lucien Foulet. Le Roman de Renard. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études. W. P. Ker		231
R. V. Russell. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India.. E. Sidney Hartland		317
St. John D. Seymour. Irish Witchcraft and Demonology. D. H. Moutray Read		322
Elizabeth Andrews. Ulster Folklore. D. H. Moutray Read		324
Septimus Sunderland. Old London’s Spas, Baths and Wells. C. S. Burne		324
Recent Work in Slavonic Folklore. L. C. Wharton		325
R. M. Dawkins and W. R. Halliday. Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A Study of the Dialects of Silli, Cappadocia and Pharasa. E. Sidney Hartland		436
W. Wundt. Elements of Folk Psychology. R. R. Marett		440
A. C. Parker. The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet. W. Crooke		442
J. A. Houlder. Ohabolana or Malagasy Proverbs. E. Sidney Hartland		445
Hutton Webster. Rest-Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality. W. Crooke		447
N. W. Thomas. Specimens of Language from Sierra Leone; Law and Custom of the Timric and Other Tribes; Timric Grammar and Stories: Timric-English Dictionary		447
Journal of the Folk-Song Society		447
Jataka Tales. Edited by H. T. Francis and E. J. Thomas		448
Short Bibliographical Notices:—
William Ridgeway, Sc.D., F.B.A. The Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races, in special reference to the Origin of Greek Tragedy: with an Appendix on the Origin of Greek Comedy		236
Captain H. Wilberforce-Bell. The History of Kathiawad from the Earliest Times		236
Herbert Bruce Wannay. European and Other Race Origins		236