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Index.
Hailstorms, Greek sacrifices upon, 162
Hair, lock of, sent by Mordvin bride, 441
pins, Manchu marriage cus- tom connected with, 484
Hartland (E. Sidney), ' Eecent Re- search on Folk-Tales," 108-117 ; "Peeping Tom and Lady Godiva," 207-226
Hamilton, Marie, ballad of, 14
Hammond Island, legend of cause of rocks at, 181
Handstriking, Mordvin marriage cus- tom of, 426, 456 ; Russian, 456
Hansel believed by English peasants to be binding, 323
Harvest customs of Devon and Corn- wall, 280
Head, Mordvin brides require to go with bare, 450
Head-dress, Mordvin wife's investi- ture with, 450
Headless woman, legend of. at Dalton, 131
Heligan, harvest customs at, 280
Hekingfors, Folk-lore collection in University of, 408
Hen, sacrifice of, in Mordvin marriage customs, 448
Henwives in folk-tales, 291, 292, 299
Hereford, Countess of, obtains privi- leges for parish of St. Briavels by riding naked, 219
Hereford diocese, influence of boundaries of, in customs, 315
Hertha, traditions of ; connected with Godiva legends, 214, 224
Herthaburg, fairy bathing legend at, 214
Herzegovina, marriage by abduction in, 476
Highland folk-tale and its foundation in usage, 197-206
superstitions, 276
Highlands, belief in, that ghost is laid by burying boots of dead, 135
, Tales and Legends of (letter),
516-517
High Offley, village wake at, 319
Hiisi, Finnish demon, 32-33
Hill, Fairy, 300
Hiring times for servants, 315
History; relations between folk-lore and, 317-322
Holike Turks, belief in descent from wolf of, 460
Holliston,Mass., Doppeltganger belief in, 404
Holy Innocents' day. See " Inno- cents."
Hops, bridal ceremony with, among Mordvins, 442
, divination by, 448
, Mordvin marriage ceremony
of kicking, 448
Horoscopes exchanged on Manchu marriages, 484
Horse, Black (Highland marchen), 370-371
, Finnish account of origin of,
33
, Mordvin bridal ceremony
with, 441
Horsehair turned into water-snake, 136
Horse-shoes, reversed, 319
Hottentots, destruction of aged people by, 202
, footprint superstition of, 158
How they met themselves, 227-233 ; (letter), 403-404
Human-dog folk-tale of Erza, 417-418
Hunter's charm, Finnish, 17-18
, ill-ln ck brought to, by meet- ing old woman, 155
Husband, intermittent residence of Kun Kong wife with, 365
Hysena skin, Greek belief in protec- tion against lightning by, 154
Hypnotism, Fascination and (letters), 274, 405
IBERIA, Keltic occupation of, 88 Idol facing wall (Chinese legend ac- counting for), 362 Incest among early Slavs, 464, 469 ;
folk- tales involving, 474 India, 'Asura' marriage cnstom in, 479
, belief that ill-lack is brought
by turning back in, 155 Innocents' day (Holy), English objec- tion to commencing work on, 279 Inverness shire, superstitions in, 276 Ireland, archaic customs preserved in literature, 235
, subdivision of land in, 200
, weasel superstition in, 157
Irish Saga, effect on Christianity of,
239
Italian folk-songs, report on, 261-267 Ivan the Terrible, abolition of pagan festivals by, 467
JACK, Penny. See " Penny Jack." Jacobs (Joseph), " Recent Research in Comparative Religion," 384-
