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Index.
Stockings : omen from loosing down, Jamaica, 452
Stones : dip]:)ed in water &c. to bring on rain, N. S. Wales, &c., 432-3 ; life of totem resides in. Yam island, 358 ; protect fruit trees, Borneo, 161 -2; offerings to, Guernsey, 121 ; saluted by fishers, Guernsey, 121 ; stone as totem, Australia, 472 ; stone vomited by Cronus revered, Delphi, 412 ; thrown at night or noon may hit ghost, Jamaica, 21 1
Stories from Leitrim and Cavan, by B. J. Jones, 336-41
Stork : as eponym of Pelasgians, 386
Storms : sudden, evoked by kings, Greece, 369, and signs from Zeus, 268
Stove, in charm necklace, Yemen Jews, 191 (opiate)
Stratonicea : Zeus on coins of, 273
Streams, see Rivers and streams
Sualdam, father of Cuchulainn, 220
Sucking cure quasi-magical, 139
Sugar cane, omen from breaking of, Jamaica, 450
Sugarloaf Mountain (Abergavenny) : feat of Jack Kent, 349
Sziggestion iind Hypnotismus in der Volkerpsychologie, by Dr. O. Stoll, reviewed, 230-2
Sulphur ; burnt to get rid of duppy, Jamaica, 90 ; carried to run duppy, Jamaica, 90 ; in gun to shoot duppy, Jamaica, 94
Sultan's Wife, The, Somali folktale, 321-2
Sun: on coins, Macedonia, 411; controlled and fed by kings, Greece, 369 ; Heracles as sun god, 422 ; oak tree supports, Russia, 293 ; Olympic victor as sun god, 400 ; represented in Daphnephoria, 410 ; sky god as related to Greece, 269- 75i 277-8 ; sun king bound to feed flames, Greece, 307 ; symbols of, Greece, 269-70 ; as totem, Austra- lia, 472 ; in war magic, Kei islands, 161 ; weather omen, Ja- maica, 456 ; worship of, Scotland, 478 ; Zeus as sun-god, 269-75, 277-8, 296
Sunday, see Easter Sunday ; ayid Whit Sunday
Sunshine-making, New Caledonia, 152
Surt, the myth of, 366
Sussex : relative nigrescence in, 234 Swahili folktales, 126 Swallow : omen from, Jamaica 451 Swan : in story of Deirdre, 38 Swastika: explanation of, 118; in
Crete, 270, 305 ; sun shown as,
Greeks, 269-70 Swearing, see Imprecations Sweeping in charm against poverty,
China. 163 Sword : in story of Theseus, 219-20 ;
sword of light in folktale of Mor-
raha, 62 Syracuse : Menecrates the physician,
303 Syria : {see also Antioch ; Biredjik ;
Laodicea ; Palmyra ; and Tyre) ;
mock burial, 347-8 ; rain festival,
annual, 430 Syros : Pherecydes, Orphic teacher,
293-5
Table : omens from placing hat on,
Jamaica, 93, 206. 451 -2, or from
sitting on, Jamaica, 451-2 Taboos: food, 112, 232; name, Torres
Straits, 354 ; sacred tree, Moush,
445 ; sexual, 112 Tahangir, son of Rustem, 220 Tahiti : dance, 130 Tailor, name given to best man at
bridal, Pembrokeshire, 198 Talking : loud at night loses voice to
duppy, Jamaica, 207 ; omen from,
Jamaica, 213 Talos, story of, 270, 273, 305-6 Taman in Irish bardic schools, 14 Tamdin, Tibetan fiend, 95 {plate) Tammuz, month of: 3rd, see St.
Thomas Day Tantalus, myth of, 301 Tara, invocation to, Tibet, 332 Tarashchausk : corpse watered for
rain, 433 Tarasua, in folktale from Rotuma,
218 Tarentum : underworld on vase, 314 Taro leaves in rain-making. New
Caledonia, i6i Tartars : Ragnarok, parallels to, 366 Tatooing : ab.sent. Nine, 19; E.
Central Africa, 73 Tauromenium : month called Apell-
aios, 420 Tea leaves, omen from, Jamaica, 211 Tees river : bull-baiting near, 199 Teeth : gift by finder of baby's first
