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Sunday : (^see also Easter Sunday ; Fathering Sunday ; Mothering Sunday ; Palm Sunday : a7id Whit Sunday) ; in charms after ' trikhal ' birth, Punjab, 65, Rohtak, 67, to avert cattle disease, N. India, 189 ; if corpse lies over, another death follows, Kennet Valley, 423 ; dreams on night of, realised Mon- day morning, Hebrides, 51 > Ait southward on, Hebrides, 42 ; say- ings about, Hebrides, 42
Sunderland : marriage customs, 245
Sunrise : water taken annually for temples from river at, Kandy, 78-9
Sunwise : in casting frith, Plebrides, 47 ; cattle driven round Beltane fire, Hebrides, 41 ; New Year candle passed over housemistress and children, Hebrides, 46 ; pro- cession at Hallowe'en, Hebrides, 55
Sussex, see Chichester
Sutherland, House of, supposed descent of, 378-9
Sutherlandshire : " Plighting Stone o' Lairg," 235
Swan : bewitched child of king, Plebrides, 36
Swansea : newly-married pair barred till toll paid, 232
Swearing, see Imprecations ; and Oaths
Sweden : south, Beowulf legend belongs to, 223 ; yew patterns for wall papers, 96
Sword : bride leaps over, Egypt, 238 ; dancing, Benin, 440 ; in proxy marriage, India, 80
Sword dances, sec Dances
Syria : (^see also Haifa) ; camel neck charms, 337 ; dough must not be stepped over while baking, 237 ; Paton's The Early History of Syria and Palestine reviewed, 442-3
Szahphadh, Balochi tribe, 259
Table-turning, Malay spiritualist per- formances similar to, 136-43
Taboos : on Conaire the Great, King of Tara, 327-30 ; laid by influential man for family, Melanesia, 366-7 ; of mother-in-law, 209 ; person under must not touch ground, 240- I ; at puberty, 240 ; in relation to marriage, 205-9, 234 ; Sarawak, 438
Talawakellc : rice harvest customs, 277-8
Tallies and their Survivals, by E.
Lovett, I Tamaniu not true totem. Banks'
island, 376 Tamils : Madu Sami, road or river
god, 77 ; Perahera procession, 77-
9 ; rice harvest ceremonies, 77 Tatnlane, Ballad of, 197 Tanerhouel, fabulous snake, Sahara
Arabs, 286-7 Taner'out, fabulous monster, Ahnet
mountains, 286 Tangara tribe, 404 Tanjore : fire-walking, 90 Tansy tea as remedy, Kennet Valley,
420 Taper used in divination, Penang,
143
Tara : St. Patrick's Pascal fire, 325 ; in story of King Conaire the Great, 327:3o
Tatooing : Sarawak, 438 ; wife with marks of husband's ancestors, Bonabe, 208
Taunsa Sharif : Balochi shrine, 262
Taylor, E., Goblins in the Faroe islands, 1 84- 5
Teeladla, home of Creator, Larrakia tribe, 18
Teeth : birth with tooth foretells bard, Hebrides, 32, unlucky, India, 198 ; blackened and pierced, Sarawak, 438 ; child's should be hidden in walls, Hebrides, 32 ; cutting upper teeth first, imperils maternal uncle, Punjab, 67 ; first, foretells bard, Hebrides, 32 : first, living being allotted to child with, Hebrides, 32 ; omen from black spot on, Hebrides, 50, or from loss in dream, Hebrides, 51 ; of wild beast worn as amulet by show- man, 342
Telar or son born after three girls, Karnal and Rohtak, 66
Telingana : firstborn son attracts lightning, 63
Tempests, see Storms
Tetsworth : witch avenges refusal, 291-2
Thana district : marriage rites, Varlis, 243
Tharaben, fabulous snake, Sahara
Arabs, 286 Theology and Ethics of the Hebrews, The, by A. Duff, reviewed, 442-4
Thief, divination of, Malays, 144-5