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Gate, city: spirit dwells in, jatakas, 22
Gaul : {see also Arvernes ; a«af Nimes); bronze figure, 125; coins, 137-8; descent from god of Death, 125, 136 ; hammer symbol, 138 ; raven as symbol, 131 ; south, Egyptian cults in, 126
Gautama Buddha, see Buddha
Gawain, nephew of King Arthur, 37- 8, 42, 49, 52, 284, 286-90, 292-3, 298-9, 300, 302
Gaza-el-Maisi : sacred tree, 69
Gazelle : in folktale, Tibet, 20
Genealogies, recording, 105
Georgia : sprinkling infants with salt, 267
Germany : {see also Bavaria ; Bran- denburg ; Brunswick ; Elsass ; Frankisch - Henneberg ; Halle ; Hanover ; Hesse ; Mecklenburg ; Oldenburg ; Pfalz ; Prussia ; Rhenish Prussia; Saxony; Schles- wig-Holstein ; Silesia ; SwaVjia ; and Weser) ; ancient, baptismal rite in, 262-3, 265 ; eating in thunder- storm dangerous, 410; folktales, 192-3, 273-5 j ladybird brings babies' souls, 269 ; moon-spot legend, 279 ; north, — water sprites steal children, 275, 280 ; opening windows &c. to release soul, 215 ; rain charm, 277-8
Gesta Romanorum, 14, 17
Ghagarapen, bell god, 104
Ghosts : altering position of door keeps out, 369 ; Beresford ghost, 376 ; hanging up cart-wheel com- pels ghosts to run through all its ruts, Scandinavia, 369 ; laid by 12 parsons, Oxfordshire, 342 ; name not used in story, Jerusalem, 56 ; pretas in jatakas, 22 ; strewing flax-seed compels ghosts to count, Scandinavia, 366, 368-369 ; wor- shipped, jatakas, 22
Gilla Backer, folktale of, 27-35, 45-9
Gipsies : Journal of the Gypsy-Lore Society, short notice of, 360
Girls, see Women
Glamorgan, see Gower
Glarus, Canton of: portraiture not objected to, 84
Glastonbury : as Hades, 140 ; holy well, 266
Glen Cuaich : death of Fraoch, 26
Glendalough : burial of amputated limbs, 83
Glenmacnass : burial of amputated leg, 82-3
Glenties, dialect of, 120
Gloucester : 9 witches of, 458 j sorceresses in Grail romances, 294
Gloucestershire : {see also Clifton ; and Gloucester) ; opening windows &c. to release soul, 216
Goajiro clans : mourning custom, 400
Goat : amulets for, Palestine, 70 ; in animal cycle, China, 119; he-goat gives milk, Lemnos, 213 ; sacrificed, Corinth, 19, Ewe, 468, Palestine, 66-7, Sierra Leone Protectorate, 426
Goblins : in jatakas, 22
Goby : used in judicial proceedings and as love charms, Aristotle, 215
God : folktale to show need of in- voking, Palestine, 62-4 ; invoked on accident &c., Palestine, 56, 59, in bathing, Palestine, 61-2 ; not invoked at hot baths, Tiberias, 55
Gods, see Deity, conceptions of ; and tmder names of gods
Gold : apple, in folktale, 199 ; coin under threshold, Palestine, 58 ; cutting instruments, in folktale and rites, Greece, 26, Highlands, 26
Gold Coast : {see also Ewe tribe) ; relatives fast after death, 398
Goll of the Fianna, 30
Gonds : bell god, 104
Goodrich-Freer, Miss A., see Spoer, Mrs. H. H.
Goose : at ' The Carter's Race,' Scot- land, 337
Gooseberry bush : babies come from, 268
Goslar : suicides, burial customs for, 372
Go8eu, battle of, Welsh poem on,
143-5. 147
Goths : bathing rite, 264
Governal, in Tristan legends, 234
Gower: as Hades, 140
Grail, The, and the Rites of Adonis, by Miss J. L. Weston, 4, 7, 283-305
Graves : coffins mysteriously dis- turbed, Ahrensburg and Barbadoes, 376-90 ; dwelling p'.ace of living dead, Scandinavia, 367-8 ; holes to permit iiassage of dead, 367-8
Greek folklore : {see also Arcadia ; Attica; Boeotia; Corinth; Dorians; Elis ; Greek islands ; attd Phocis) ; ballad, 20 ; brothers, value attached to, 20 ; fasting, ceremonial, 392 \
