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Title Journal of American Folk-Lore, Volume 12
Year 1899
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Location Boston
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INDEX TO VOLUME XIII.


American Folk-Lore Society:

Eleventh Annual Meeting, 47; Report of the Council, 47; Treasurer's Report, 49; papers presented, 50; officers, honorary members, life members, annual members, 309; libraries subscribing, 313; subscribers to Publication Fund, 314.

Animal deities, Huichol, 305.

Animals, in folk-lore and myth:

Alligator, 284; bear, 19, 92, 147, 225, 267; beaver, 10, 16; bird, 252, 259; blue jay, 97; buffalo, 161, 163, 170, 183, 186, 261, 265; butterfly, 276; cat, 229; chickadee, 94; corn, 21, 26; cow, 28, 36; crow, 31, 190; coyote, 166, 168, 189, 267; dog, 98, 147, 182; duck, 165; eagle, 30, 162, 163; flea, 269; fox, 19, 24, 25, 164, 222, 269; frog, 25; golden bird, 231; golden fish, 175, 291; grasshopper, 189; herring, 37; horse, 295; lizard, 259; mouse, 229; owl, 97; rabbit, 19-28; raven, 14, 39; red-bird, 30; robin, 94; skunk, 189; snake, 95, 185, 228; squirrel, 23; swallow, 38; terrapin, 28; toad, 39, 40, 41, 212; turtle, 184, 189; wildcat, 15; wolf, 15, 21, 23, 179; wolverine, 15, 18.

Apparitions, 69.

Backus, E. M., An Ancient Game of Courtship from North Carolina, 104.

Backus, E. M., Folk-Tales from Georgia:

I. When Brer Rabbit get Brer Bear churched, 19; II. When Brer Rabbit was presidin' elder, 20; III. When Brer Wolf have his corn shucking, 21; IV. Brer Rabbit's carl an' swing, 22; V. When Brer Fox don't fool Brer Rabbit, 24; VI. When Brer Fox give a big dining, 25; VII. When sis Coon put down Brer Bear, 26; VIII. How come the Mooly cow don' have no horns, 27; IX. When Mr. Pine-tree and Mr. Oak-tree fall out, 29; X. How the little boy went to heaven, 30; Editor's note, 32.

Ballads, 70.

Beauchamp, W. M., Iroquois Women:

Reputation of, division of labor between men and women, 81; dress, rank, 83; polygamy, marriage restrictions, 84; prominence, 85; right of nominating chiefs, 88; love of children, 89; various customs, 90; youthful marriages, 91.

Beauchamp, W. M., Onondaga Tale of the Pleiades:

Star-lore, 281; Pleiades as dancing children, 282.

Beings, imaginary:

Buffalo woman, 1S6; demons, Japanese, 223; devil, 279; fairies, Indian, 278; fetish, African, 63; giant, 277, hairy man, 11; river-monster, 179; Two-Faces, 184.

Books:

Boas, F. The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians, W. W. Newell, 153; Connelley, W. E., Wyandot folk-lore, 240; Deeney, D., Peasant lore from Gaelic Ireland, 236; Kruptadia: Die zeugung in sitte der Südslaven, L. Wiener, 75; Popular Studies in mythology, romance, and folk-lore, 238; Scherman, L., and Krauss, F. S., Allegemeine methodik der volkskunde, 76; Spencer, B., and Gillen, F. J., The native tribes of Central Australia, W. W. Newell, 72; Starr, F., Catalogue of objects illustrating the folklore of Mexico, 77; Teit, J., The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. W. W. Newell, 156; Wiener, L., The history of Yiddish literature in the nineteenth century, W. W. Newell, 234, Koch, T., Zur animismus der sudamerikanischen Indianer, A. F. Chamberlain, 302; Lumholtz, C, Symbolism of the Huichol Indians, A. F. Chamberlain, 304.

Ceremonies and customs:

Ablution, 2; adoption, 91; avertive, 9, 10; baptismal, 2; betrothal, consecration, 70; divination, 5, 7, 63, 162, 251, 255, 273, 275; eating, 89, 90; fasting, 7; funeral, 3, 303; marriage, 75, 84, 85, 91, 218; naming, 91; prayer, 3, 5; purification, 8; sacrificial, 61, 89, 255, 271,276; taboo, 146; thanksgiving, 261.

Chamberlain, A. F., Some Items of Algonkian Folk-Lore:

Suspension of human beings as sacrifice to war-god, blackening face in fasts, planting trees upside-down on graves, 271; encomiums of bards in funeral songs; prognostics derived from stars, 272; weather-signs, water-nymphs, 273; worms in teeth, star-names, signs from affections of parts of the body, 274; diminutive elves, water-men, immolation of victims, Milky Way as path of the dead, 275; celibacy, whiteness as sign of day, giants, genii, 276; sleep-butterflies, degradation of names of gods, 277.

Chamberlain, A. F., In Memoriam:

Frank Hamilton Cushing, 129; Walter James Hoffman, 44.

Chamberlain, A. F., and I. C, Record of American Folk-Lore:

North America: Algonkian, 51, 135, 213, 283; Athabascan, 135, 215; Caddoan, 51; Chinantecan, 283; Eskimo, 135; Haida, 51, 135; Iroquoian, 136, 216, 283; Juavan, 284; Keresan, 216; Kulanapan, 216; Mixtec-Zapotecan, 218, 284; Otomi, 285; Pueblos, 52, 138; Pujunan, 217; Salishan, 54, 217, 285; Siouan, 217, 286; Totonacan, 287; Uto-Aztecan, 54, 217, 287; Central America: Costa Rica, 219; Mayan, 55, 140, 219; South America: Araucanian, 55, 141; Brazil, 57; Catuquinarù, 58; Guaicuru, 141; Guarano, 58; Patagonia, 58, 142; Peru, 58; General, 58, 142, 220, 289.

Chamberlain, I. C., The Devil's Grandmother:

Devil's dam in Shakespeare, German proverbs relating to, 278; folk-sayings concerning, 279.

Charms, 8, 61.

Color symbolism, 10.

Costume, 90.


Dances, 136, 164, 301.

Dishes, local, 65.

Dixon, R. B., Some Coyote Stories from the Maidu Indians of California:

The Coyote and the Grizzly Bears, 267; Coyote and the Fleas, 268; Coyote and the Gray Fox, 269; How the Coyote married his daughter, 270.

Dreams, 303.


Edwards, C. L., Animal Myths and their Origin:

Embryonic stages of man preserved in childhood, 33; theories of spontaneous generation, 34; belief in animal transformations, 36; ancient zoölogical myths, survival of, 37; swallow, crow, toad in folk-lore, 38; myths originating in erroneous induction, 41.

Farrington, O. C, The Worship and Folk-Lore of Meteorites:

Universality of worship, 199; Kaaba, cases of Greek and Roman worship, 200; instances from the Old World, 202; from New World, 204; folk-lore of meteorites, 205; interest depends on observation of fall, 207.

Figures and symbols, 214, 215.

Fletcher, A. C,. Giving Thanks: a Pawnee Ceremony:

Ritual nakedness, sacred buffalo skull, sacred bundle, 261; corn mush as offering, ritual smoking of tobacco, 262; prayer to skull, return of sacrificial gifts, 263; thanksgiving, offering, and eating of mush, address of priest, 264; transmitted knowledge of herbs and ritual, meaning of name Ta-rá-wa, fees sign of thankfulness, 265.

Folk-Lore Scrap-Book, see Readings.


Games, 162, 300.


Hagar, S., The Celestial Bear:

Observation of stars, 92; Micmac legend of Great Bear, 93; interpretation of legend, 95; parallels, 97; Iroquois legend identical, 98; explanations of correspondences, 100; difficulties of hypothesis of independent origins, 102.

Hazen, H. A., The Origin and Value of Weather-Lore:

Ancient character of lore, 191; worthless sayings, 192; belief in lunar influence, 193; forecasts from behavior of animals, 194; signs from optical phenomena, 197; editor's note, 198.

Indian Tribes:

Abenaki, 124.
Algonkian, 272.
Algonquin, 123.
Athabascan, 11.
Arapaho, 50, 161, 183.
Cheyenne, 161.

Dakota, 44.
Huichol, 305.
Huron, 84, 91.
Iroquois, 82, 123.
Loucheux, 11.
Maidu, 267.
Micmac, 50, 93, 166.
Menomoni, 45.
Mohawk, 123.
Ojibwa, 45.
Omaha, 176.
Onondaga, 50, 84.
Pa-Uta, 45.
Pawnee, 261.
Pueblos, 225.
Salish, 45.
Seneca, 86.
Shoshoni, 45.
Slavey, 16.
South American, 302.
Wyandot, 260.
Yaqui, 64.
Zuñi, 130, 132.

See also Record of American Folk-Lore.


Kroeber, A. L., Cheyenne Tales:

Divination respecting life of man, buffalo why eaten, 161; why war among animals, 162; how buffalo called out from a spring, why eagle-feathers used as ornaments, 163; fox-company, dispute of Sun and Moon, earth supported by post gnawed by beaver, 164; stories of Coyote and White-Man, 164; of orphan boy, 170; young man and helpful buffalo, 177; young men who journey to land of buffalo, 179; woman who bears pups, 181; origin of Pleiades, 182; Two-Faces, water-turtle, 184; snake-lover, 185; ghost-lover, star-maid, buffalo wife, 186; woman and child turned to stone, woman married to tree, 187; Sun as savior, gray wolf as blesser, why bears tailless, 188; turtle escapes by trick, Coyote and turtle, 189; crow as deceiver, 190.

Journals, 79, 158, 307.
Local Meetings and Other Notices:

Boston, 149; Cambridge, 150; Cincinnati, 70, 151; Congrès International, 301; Tennessee, 232; Brinton Memorial Chair, 151.

Magic and Witchcraft, 7, 64, 67, 209, 210, 226, 299.
Medicine, popular, 66, 78.
Mooney, J., The Cherokee River Cult:

Cherokee worship of river as the Long Man, 1; ceremonial rites in connection with the running stream, presentation of new-born child to river, immersion of youths, 2; color symbolism, soul of departed draws after it the living, 3; prayer to the sun for long life, 4; omens drawn from the water, 5; use of colored beads in divination, imprecatory ceremony, 6; repetitive character of rite, 7; formula of purification, 8; against calamity presaged by dream, 9; diversion of foreshadowed evil, 10.

Music, 59, 106, 108, 143.
Nature, Phenomena of:

Earth, 164, fire, 1, 298, 305; heavens, 5, 69; lightning, 305; meteorites, 199; moon, 164, 259; rainbow, 251; river, 1, 62; sky, 277; star, 92, 147, 282; stone, 274; sun, 3, 53, 164, 260, 305; twilight, 260; water, 1, 305; wells, 1; world, 54.

Newell, W. W., Early American Ballads, II.:

Isaac Orcutt, 105; music of, 106; Springfield mountain, 107; music of, 108; possible source of ballads in dirges, 112; migration of ballads, 114; survival of ancient ballads in America, 114; Lord Randal, 115; Lamkin, 117; the wife of Usher's Well, 119; the Elfin Knight, 120.

Notes and Queries:

Cure for an aching tooth, L. H. C. Packwood, 66; Sol Lockheart's call, R. Steiner, 67; taboos of tale-telling, A. F. Chamberlain, 146; the bear in Hellenic astral mythology, W. W. Newell, 147: the celestial bear, 225; why the poplar Stirs, superstition of miners in Michigan, II. K. Kidder. 226; Braziel Robinson possessed of two spirits, K. Steiner, 226; an old English nursery the twelve days of Christmas; a nursery song, P. M. Cole, 2:0; the Golden Bird, F. D. Bergen, 231; Dakota legend of the head of gold, T. Wilson, 201; death signs and weather signs from Newfoundland and Labrador, A. F. Waghorne, 297; the game of the child-stealing witch, W. W. Newell, 299.

Oracles, 61.
Ornaments, 163.
Paraphernalia of Worship:

Amulets, 61; beads, 6; bowls, 264 buffalo skull, 262; doll, 64; hearth, 262; masks, 77; meteorites, 199; pipes, 262; prayer-sticks, 216; tree-trunk, 61.

Plants, in folk-lore and myth:

Corn, 163; cottonwood, 187; echium vulgare, 6; oak, 29; pine, 17, 29, 67; persimmon, 67; poplar, 226; willow, 166; tobacco, 60, 262.

Polygamy, 84.
Prince, J. Dyneley, Some Forgotten Place-Names in the Adirondacks:

Derivation of the name Adirondacks, 123; of Saranac, 124; Abenaki name for Racquette Lake, Tupper Lake, 125; Long Lake, 126; Forked Lake, Mount Marcy, St. Regis Reserve, Indian name of Bog Lake, Round Lake, 127; Lake Clear, Black Lake, 128.

Rae, John, Laiekawai: a Legend of the Hawaiian Islands:

Introductory note, 241; antiquity of Hawaiian legend, memory of bards, 243; tales are long narrations with elaborate plots, 244; nakedness of islanders no mark of savagery, 245; tale, 247; exposure of female children, 248; geological character of Hawaiian caverns, 249, rainbows attendant on chiefs, 251; Hawaiian admiration of beauty, 252; persons of main actors as stake in a game, 253; boxing-match, 254; second-sight, 255; goddess of the mountain, 256; chiefs of divine extraction, 257; sisters as supporters of their brother, song of sisters, 258; continuation of tale, familiar animal demons, forms of marriage contract, 259; hero as sun-god, his degradation, heroine worshipped as deity of twilight, 260.

Readings:

Ashanti fetishes and oracles, 61; Yaqui witchcraft, 64; traditionary American local dishes, 65; fox possession in Japan, 222; garments of the dead, love charms at wishing-wells, fairies as fishes, 291; some homely viands, 292.

Record of American Folk-Lore, see Chamberlain. A. F.
Russell, F., Athabascan Myths:

Loucheux tribe: I. Little Hairy Man, 11; II. The Raven, 14; III. The Wolf and Wolverine, 15; Slavey tribe; IV. The Great Beaver, 16; V. Origin of the pine, 17; VI. Why the wolverine became a thief, 18.


Signs:

Death, 297; weather, 297.

Slavery, 83. Spirits, 146, 226.


Transformation, 14, 224. Tribes, Indian:

Abenaki, 124.
Algonkian, 271.
Algonquin, 123.
Arapaho, 50, 165.
Athabascan, 11.
Cheyenne, 161.
Dakota, 44.
Huron, 84, 91.
Iroquois, 82, 123.
Loucheux, 11.
Maidu, 267.
Menomoni, 45.
Micmac, 50, 93, 166.
Mohawk, 123.
Ojibwa, 45.
Omaha, 176.
Onondaga, 50, 84.
Pawnee, 261.
Pa-Uta, 45.
Pueblos, 225.
Selish, 45.
Seneca, 86.
Shoshoni, 45.
Slavey, 16.
Wyandot, 240.
Yaqui, 64.
Zuñi, 130, 132.

See also Record of American Folk-Lore


Visions, 67.


Weather, 191.

Wiltse, H. M., In the Southern Field of Folk-Lore:

A bewitched gun, 209; a bewitched churning, 210; the mysterious deer, 211; a hoodoo charm, 212.

Woman, position of, 81, 85, 242.