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Index.
Thursday, luckiest day in week, Egypt, 394
Tiger, attendant of mountain spirit, Korea, 328 ; those killed by tigers become tiger spirits, Korea,
331
Tiger cat, skin worn for luck in war, Borneo, 177
Tiha, see Avezuha
Tin ore, Malay spirit of and taboos connected with mining, 305, 308
Tipperary, weasel hunted, 255
Tirol, animals' heads as gable orna- ments, 322 ; killing swallow kills parents, 237 ; magpie, snake, spider, and toad respected, 241 ; raven taken for medicine, March, 255 ; toad killed and hung in stable, July-August, 255
Tit, respected locally, 242 ; killed, Pays rouchi, 256
Titus, Emperor, Hebrew legend of death of : Cairene adaptation, 378
Toad, caught before St. George's Day, 255 ; first seen killed, Berne, 254; form of soul, Germany, 235 ; human being as, 236 ; kept captive for luck, Sicily, 244 ; killed, Or- tenau, 256 ; killed and hung in stable, July-August, Tirol, 255 ; as life index, 237 ; respected locally, 241 ; sacrificed, 254 ; transfixed and hung in stable, Lechrain, 255 ; transfixed and stuck on dunghill locally, 255 ; transformed human being, Sicily, 236 ; used for ill- wishing and fortune- telling, Devon,
215
Tobacco, sacrificed by Esquimaux, 172
Tom Tit Tot, true catastrophe of, 205
Tom Tram, his adventures ascribed to Grettir, 407
Toothache Well, Duneistein (Lewis), 445-6
Totemism and Some Recent Dis- coveries, (Presidential Address), by E. S. Hartland, 52-80
Totemism, Animal Superstitions and, by N. W. Thomas, 227-67
Totemism : amongst Arunta, C. Australia, 65-7, 69-77 ; amongst Bella Coola Indians, 301 ; amongst Hopi, 225 ; amongst Indians of N.W. Canada, 58-64, 67-9; dis- cussed by E. S. Hartland, 5880,
and R. R. Marett, 176-7 ; in Europe, 227-67 ; no trace amongst Thompson Indians, British Colum- bia, 397-8
Towednack, " cuckoo's feast," 260
Toys, Hopi, 225
Treasure, hidden, in Egypt, 385-6 ; in Korean mountains, 330
Trees in folklore : {see also Cedar ; Fruit-trees ; Moduga trees ; Oak tree ; Olive tree ; Pine tree ; Plane tree ; Rag-tree ; ««r/ Willow tree) ; masks swung from, to promote fertility, 24 ; sacred, 29, 82 ; World-Tree, 82-5 ; worshipped in Korea, 326
Trikka, healing spring at, 89
Trustees of Folk-Lore Society, 41, 46
Tristram romance, incidents borrowed for Grettis Saga, 406-7
Tsimshian Indians, clan legend of, 60
Tubingen, sunwise procession near, 220
Tuesday : {see also Shrove Tuesday) ; unlucky for Cairene marriage or wedding breakfast, 381
Tug-of-war in Magh funeral rites, 19
Turndun, Australian deity, discussed,
173
Turtle People, original name of Wyandots, 192
Twelfth Day, blackbird pie, Corn- wall, 259
Twins, souls of, pass into cats on death, Cairo, 392
Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Child-stealing Witch, by M. Gaster, 129-62
Tyrol, see Tirol
Ukraine, peasant arithmetic and
geometry, 428 Ullr, god and priest-king, 284-5 '■>
cult of tribal origin, 295 Umbilical cord, administered to
babies for flatulency, Ross-shire,
445 .
Unbaptized children, buried after sunset, Argyll and Ross, 444 ; nick- names given, island of Lewis, 444
Unborn children, how sex deter- mined, Cairo, 381
Unchurched women, taboo on, Calymnos, 221
Underworld, see Hades
