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Germany : {see also Bavaria ; Branden- burg ; Lithuania ; Lusatia ; Mark ; and Westphalia) ; cat's cradle, 83, 92 ; devil outwitted type of folk- tales, 253 ; folklore publications, 14 ; lady's mantle as wound-herb, 208-9 ; marriage customs, 280-3 » north, charm against freckles, 278-9 ; roots cognate to Nuada, 47 ; south, klopfleinsnacht, 262
Gessa or taboos, see Taboos
Ghosts : in animal shape, Iceland, 412 ; ceremony of expulsion. Bar- won, 261, S. Australia, 264; dreaded, but not always malignant, Iceland, 41 1 ; in Icelandic sagas, 397) 405) 41 1-2; laying, Iceland, 411 ; reincarnated, Iceland, 41 1-2; spooks with birds' feet, England,
507 Gippsland, see Kurnai tribe Gipsies : amulets, Spain, 457, 466,
470-1 [plates) ; string trick, 362-3 Gisla saga, 389, 393-4,^410, 416, 423,
425
Gisli Sursson's saga, 393, 402
Glais, ancestor of Scottish kings, 34
Glamorgan, see Llandaff
Glasgow : arms, 329
Glastonbury : apple tree at, 309 ; coffin of King Arthur, 321 ; found- ing, legend of, 309 ; identified with Avallon, 308 ; legend of St Neot, 44 ; mistletoe common, 321 ; names of, 310-1 ; oaks at, 310-1 ; sacred trees at, 309- 1 1 ; Tor as Otherworld, 308
Gleann Dealgain : Finn's leap, May Day, 434
Gloucestershire : {see also Bristol ; Forest of Dean ; and Lydney Park); Nodons as river god, 50; Roman inscriptions, 38
Gnanji tribe : conception beliefs, 18-9 ; totemism, 18-9
Goat : kid in huntsman's festival, Romans, 446 ; kid thrown on roof, Esthonia, 281 ; legs of Pan &c., 133 ; in marriage customs, Bul- garia, 283 ; sacrificed, Aniazulu, 483-4, Germany, 276, Manyika, 487 ; sinews for sewing, Zulus, 484 ; shape-shifting into, Iceland, 422 ; skin in magic for mist, Iceland, 425, and wrapped round baby, Bantu, 250 ; white, given by bride to older sister, Vosges, 283
Gods, seeYi&viy, conceptions of ; and under names of gods, suck as Poseidon
Gold : apple, in folktales, 158, 160, 31O' 333 ; ill fine for insult to a king, Wales, 309-10; tree, in folk- tales, Ireland, 158; utensils, in folktales, Ireland, 158, 168, 335
Golden bough, The, 156-7, 348, 447
Goll, son of Dalbh, 150
Goll, son of Morna, 430
Golowain, game of, 507
Gomme, G. L. , Translations of Folk- lore Publications, 230
Good Friday : ' bachelette ' custom, Chatillon-sur-Seine, 280
Goose : in charm against freckles, N. Germany, 278-9 ; earth-dwarfs with feet of, Germany, 134 ; in magic, Iceland, 424 ; in marriage cus- toms, 281, 283
Gosling, see Goose
Gothic congener of Nuada, 47
Gower : prison of Manawyddan, 142
Gowrie : legend of Hays of Errol,
317-9 Grain, see Corn Grainne and Diarmuid, 436-44, 448,
Gramoflanz, King, see King Gramo- flanz
Granada: amulets, 456-7,460-1,463, 465-7, 471 {plates); gipsy colony, Albaicin Hill, 470 ; votive offer- ings, 472 {plate)
Granard in Cairbre, 64
Graves : fire lighted near, Australia, 261 ; slept upon, N.S. Wales, 261 ; trees springing from, Indian folk- tale, 503
Great Russia : marriage customs, 282
Greek folklore : {see also Attica ; Greek islands ; Megaris ; Mycenee ; Phocis ; Sicyonia ; and under na?nes of deities) ; games, 274 ; Harpies and Sirens, 1 34-7 ; kings per- sonated Zeus and associated with oak, 32, 52-3 ; missel-thrush, name of, 447 ; scapegoats, 265
Greek islands, see Cos ; Crete ; and Delos
Green : in Arthurian sagas, 338-41, 347 ; in Irish folktales, 338, 347,
431 Greenland : burial custom, 408 ; in
Icelandic saga, 391 Gretti's saga, 411
