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Index.
TABOO, royal, 394
clan, New Guinea, 192
Tabu, what he did in Muralug
(Muralug folk-tale), 180, 192 Tagai constellation, myth of (Torres
Straits), 184-185, 194 Tahiti, offering to gods of hostile
tribes in, 167 Tambov, payment of " kladka" at,
479 Tartar objection to thrusting sword
in fire, 151 Tasks, fairy. See " Nicht Nought
Nothing." Tatars, bridal weeping custom of,'
457 ; marriage restrictions of, 452 ;
similarity of marriage customs to
Mordvin, 455
Tavistock, midwife legend at, 207 Tcherkess, Amazonian legend of, 470 Teryshevsk, bridal procession at, 437,
439
, weeping-day of, 430 ,
Teutonic Mythology, recent research
on, 118-126 Thebes (Boeotia), keeping Easter at,
275
Threshold, ill-luck brought by stum- bling on, 156 , Manchu bridal ceremony at,
487 , smeared with lamb's blood in
Greece, 275
-, Tatar taboo of bride treading
on, 459 Thunder, Sakai method of frightening,
153; Esthonian, 153; Canadian,
154
Thunderstorm, custom of extinguish- ing fire at, German, 153 ; Greek,
153
Thiiringen, ill-hick belief in, 156 Tiai inaugurates funeral ceremonies
(Badu tale), 176-179, 191 Tie-beam touched as confirmation of
marriage agreement, 427
seized by Mordvin bride, 440
Timor, earthquake belief of natives
of, 150 Tin, importance of early British trade
in, 84, 92 Titmouse, Finnish magic-song of
origin of, 335 Tlinkeet Indians, earthquake belief
among, 150 Todas, destruction of aged people by,
Tom (Peeping) and Lady Godiva, 207-
226 Topcliffe, fair at, 130
Torres Straits, legends, from, 47-81,
172-196 beliefs of natives of,
76, 77 masks used in, 192,
194 ; canoes of, 195 ; water-bottles
of, 195 Totem, renewal of tribal bond with,
388 Totems, origin of fire and (New
Guinean legend), 185, 195 Toula, defence of bride's home in,
477 Trade Routes to Britain, Greek, 82-
107 Transylvania, "threshold - stumbling
belief in, 156 Travellers, the two, "Midrash" version
of, 277-278 Tree-marks made for fortune at
Moksha marriages, 445 Trees, Finnish magic-songs of origin
of, 343-348 , sudden growth of, to shield
princess of Chamba, 222 Tribal enmity, survival of English,
325 Truro, ancient pigs of tin in museum
at, 83
Tsipiana, customs in, 520 Tuatha de Danann and the Firbolgs,
conflicts between, 244-245 Turkish marriage customs similar to
Mordvin, 451 ' variant of Frog-Prince story,
503 Turks, marriage by purchase among,
453 Turning back, ill-luck brought by,
155 Turtle caught by sucker-fish in New
Guinea, 190 ; method of fishing for,
196 Turtle spirits, Murray Island myth,
186-189, 195 Tuscan beliefs derived from the
Etruscans, 404 Twelfth-night spirit, German and
Swiss, 214
Twelve-father child, Zyrian, 31 Two Dorgai of Muralug (Muralug
folk-tale), 180-181, 193 Two Travellers, "Midrash" version
of, 277-278
Tyrolese fairy punishment story, 214 ill-luck belief, 155
UG CHAN, female labour in, 365 Ukraine, husband choosing custom in, 471
