Index.
477
Habits and Folklore of the Natives of, by Mrs. J. A. Peggs, 322-3, 324-67 (plates) Romans, ancient : Gorgon myth, 212-
42 ; mental confusion, 426-7 Rome : cinerary urn, 226 ; in folk- tales, 42-4 ; Gorgon's head, 219, 225-6 ; early kings, selection of, 54 Ronde, Isle of : natives, 247 Roof, untiling, custom of, Hesse, 319 Rose : withered, opens at birth of
child, Malta, 78 Ross-shire : {see also Applecross) ; Old-World Survivals in Ross-shire, by S. Macdonald, 368-84 ; west, amulet against vk^itchcraft, 298-9 (plate) Rosto de Cao : named from rock, 127 Rouse, W. H. D., review by, — Abbott's Macedonian Folklore, 446-8 Rowan-tree, see Mountain ash Roxburghshire, see Liddesdale Rumanika, King, see King Rumanika Rury, loch, the arch wave of, 29 Rushmore: Bronze Age interments, 13 Russia : (see also Samoyeds ; and Siberia) ; AnitchkofFs Vernal Cere- monial Songs of the West and among the Slavonians reviewed, 44S.
Sacrifice :
animal, ideas underlying, 316; St. Martin's Eve, Athlone, Isle of Man, Munster, 186 ;
blood drawn, W. Australia, 348 ;
cake used in divination, Calmucks,
35 ; to dead, Angoni and Yao
tribes, 310- 1 ;
human : at burial, Bronze Age, 13 ; in Harran, 193 ; ideas under- lying, 316 ; at November Eve fires, Carnarvonshire &c. ,186 ;
paper money burnt, China, 115 ;
pigs, model, as votive offerings,
Tarentum, 265 ; to spirits of
dead, Achewa tribe, 62 Saffron Walden : blessing goslings,
177 Sagecock : assigned to North region
of space, Zuui, 430 Sailors' beliefs and customs, see Sea
beliefs and customs St. Agnes' Eve : for divination, Lin- colnshire, 94 St. Anthony's Day : animals sprinkled
and fed, Malta, 79
St. Bridget: in Scottish charms, 98 St. Columba : in Scottish charms, 98 St. George and the Dragon, 236 ;
St. John's Day : fortune-teUing on,
Malta, 84 St. John's Eve : Azores, 142-3 ;
Malta, 77-8 St. Mark's Eve : bracken shoots up, Lincolnshire, 94 ; cattle bow knee on, Lincolnshire, 94; divination on, Lincolnshire, 94 ; St. Mark's Eve, by M. Peacock, 94 St. Martin's Day : game and gifts,
Malta, 80 St. Martin's Eve : Hallowe'en fires and sacrifice, Ireland and Isle of Man, 186 St. Michael's (Azores): {see also Alegria ; Arriffes ; Botelho ; Fen- aes da Luz ; Maia ; Ponta Delgada; Rasto de Cao; Ribeira Grande ; Ribeira Secca; Ribeirinha; Rosto de Cao ; Terceira ; and Villa Franca) ; capital of Atlantis in, 126; colonisa- tion of, 125 ; Dove festival, 139-40; folktales, 128-35 St. Patrick's Day: rhyme on, Heb- rides, 99 St. Paul's tongue, fossil fish teeth,
Malta, 83 St. Peter's Chasm, in Azores, 133 St. Peter's Day: Greeting of Dawn
festival, Azores, 140- 1 St. Peter's Eve : divination, Azores,
143 St. Roch : place in Azores named
from dog's track, 127 Salamis, battle of: votive statue after,
Delphi, 264 Salem, see Jerusalem Salmon : word tabooed when fishing,
Highlands, 304 Salt : in ritual, 316 ; spilling lucky,
Malta, 85 Samoa : folktale, 157 Samos : votive offerings at, 265 Samoyeds : marchen, 152, 157-8 Sandford St. Martin : suicide, burial
of, 74 Sandside : ivy and horse-shoe carried in fishing boats, 303, but not pig, 305 ; fishing beliefs, 305 ; wind- selling, 302 Sannyasis, secrets of, Panjab, 102 Santa Maria (Azores) : colonisation
of, 125 ; metrical romances, 128 Santo Christo procession, Azores, 137
