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Index.
Easter Monday : well custom, Hesse, 279
Eastertide : {see also Easter Day ; atid Easter Monday) ; church-ale, Wilts, 341 ; hare's eggs sought, Penn., 357 ; pace-egging songs, 358
Eating : abstention from food or particular foods at special times and places, see Fasting ; dangerous in thunderstorm, Germany, 410 ; only in sunlight, India and Coast Salish Indians, 411
Ecclesiastes, Book of: as related to Celtic Triads, 225
Eclipse : caused by 7 evil spirits. Babylonia, 416; earthen vessels broken after, India, 410 ; fasting at, India, 410, Jews, 411; Pfalz, 410
Editor : short notices by, — Grumbine's Folklore and Supe?'stitious Beliefs of Lebanon Cotmty [Pennsylvania) , 356-7 ; The Imperial Gazetteer of India, The Indiati E7npire, vol. /, 355-6 ; Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. Ill, Part I, 358-60; Journal of the Gypsy- Lore Society, 360 ; Gerish's The Mayers and their Song, 357 ; Sociological Papers, vol. II, 354-5
Eel : conger's blood makes hair grow, Greek islands, 330 ; in folktale, 17-S ; produced from "entrails of earth," Aristotle, 214
Eggs : divination by, Khasis, 242 ; not set to hatch same month, Greek islands, 331 ; of stork good for ophthalmia, Greek islands, 329
Egypt : {see also Alexandria ; Cairo ; Nile ; Osiris ; Sais ; Soudan ; and Thebes) ; Wiedemann's Altagyp- tische Sagen und Mairhett reviewed, 416-8 ; ancient, — carving of ibex, 213 ; closely connected with Gaul, 126; cycle of 12 animals, 119; fasting, ceremonial, 393 ; festivals, 223; folktales, 1 16-8; revenge image, 67 ; sacrifices, 393-4 ; upper, child ceremonially bathed, 261, 264
Elaine, daughter of King Pelles, 293
Elatus river: cured sterility, 271
El Chadr, see Elijah ; and St. George
Elema : All Father belief, 468
Elephant : in folktale, Africa, 239-40 ; Ganesh, e. deity, India, 271
Elijah : cave of, Mt. Carmel, 69 ; in- voked in bathing, Palestine, 61-2
Elis, see Olympia
Elsass : " lavandieres de nuit," 1 1 1
Elysium, see Hades
Emer, wife of Cuchulainn, 44-5, 133, 143. 448
England : {see also Britain ; Mercia ; Midlands ; and under names of counties) ; ballads, 470-2 ; county folklore, 9 ; Shore's Origin of the Anglo-Sa.xon Race reviewed, 351- 3 ; English and Scottish lopular Ilallads, edited by Sargent and Kittredge, reviewed, 470-2
Entlebuch : human scapegoat, 434
Eochaid Echbel of Alba, 148
Epilepsy : caused by devil, Palestine,
71 Erechtheus, King, j-^i?King Erechtheus Ermeric, saga of, 118 Ermine skins worn by Armenian
clergy, 432-3 Errol : mistletoe cut by Hays, 26 Esclados le Ros, in story of Iwain, 36,
46, 52 Eshton : St. Helen's well custom, 257 Eskimo : mourning customs, 406 ;
social organization by districts, 95-
6, and varies with seasons, 96-101 ;
song duel, 98; string games, 113 Essex, see St. Osyth's well Esthonia : {see also Oesel) ; marriage
custom, 270 Etain, folktale of, 227 Etruscans : mallet symbol of infernal
deity, 137 Eucharist : fasting before receiving, 393 European Sky-God, The : The Celts,
VIII, by A. B. Cook, 24-53 Eve, jinns descend from, Palestine, 71 Evil eye : amulets against, Greek
islands, 330, Italy, 189, Morocco,
250, 355, Palestine, 70 ; block for
printing amulets, 250 ; influence on
social relationships, 355 Evil spirits, see Demons and evil spirits Evolution of Culture, The, and Other
Essays, by Lt.-Gen. A. L. F. Pitt
Rivers, reviewed, 217-20 Ewe tribe : Mawu, hymn and sacrifice
to, 468 Exhibits at meetings, 7, 249-50, 362-3 Exogamy : Australia, 307-8 ; Gallas,
323. Eye diseases : hymns as charms for,
Connaught, 348 ; storks' eggs for,
Greek islands, 329 ; treated at wells,
England, 253-4 Eyrbyggja saga, 370- 1
