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September : Jokumara feast, Bellary,
331-2 Serapis : assimilates local deities, Gaul, 126 ; mallet as symbol of,
137
Serpent, see Snake
Serpent- Procession at Cocullo, by Mrs. M.C. Harrison, 187-91 (plates), and L. Marchione, 216
Servia : {see also Nish) ; children cured by water, 256 ; sacrifice against barrenness, 271
Service-tree : berry of, 33
Seven : days before taking girl from cradle, Sierra Leone, 86 ; days fast in honour of sun, Harranians, 414-5 ; evil spirits preside over month Adar, Babylonia, 416 ; 7th day, month, and year holy, Jews, 413-4; 7th month sacred, Babylonia, 413 ; wells for weakly or bewitched children, Barnwell, 255, Syria, 256
Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor, 427-30
Shamir, the stone-cutting worm, 74
Shaving : on pilgrimages, India, 393
Shechem, see Nablus
Sheep : amulets for, Palestine, 70 ; in folktale, Jerusalem, 56-7 ; lamb in fable, 17; Paschal lamb curative, Samaritans, 75-6 ; ram sacrificed to jinn, Palestine, 56 ; sacrificed at circumcision &c., Palestine, 65-6, and to village spirits, India, 335 ; spirit so named, Palestine, 56-8
Sheikh Shadli or Shazli : libation to, Palestine, 67
Shells : (see also Cowry shell) ; shell trumpet, Hindus, 105
Shemeer, see Shamir
Shetland islands : Shetland Brownies, by F. C. Conybeare, 440-1
Shir Shah, emperor of India, 427-8
Shire district, see Yao
Shobath : fast in honour of sun, Har- ranians, 414
Shrewsbury : charm to prevent casting of calves, 437
Shrines : Palestine, 58-9, 61, 65-6, 69
Shropshire : (see also Besford ; St. Hawthorne's Well ; Shrewsbury ; and Wrekin) ; carter will not use "withy stick," 359; cuckoo ale, 341 ; south, charm to prevent cast- ing of calves, 437 ; whipping with broom stops growth, 359
Siam : dead not removed through usual entrance, 373
Siberia, see Koryaks ; and Ostiaks
Siciatl Indians : taboos on mourners, 407 and at puberty, 408
Sickle : gold, in sacred rites, Greece, 26, druids, 26
Siegfried, saga of, 118
Sierra Leone Protectorate : (see also Freetown ; Imperri country ; Mano; Mendiland ; Timini country ; and Tyama) ; folktale, 240 ; Secret Societies and Fetishism in Sierra Leone, by A. R. Wright, 423-7 (plates) ; Some West African Cus- toms, by Abiose, 86-8
Sieve : uot taken out on starry night, Greek islands, 331
Silesia : Spillohalla stores babies in wells, 274 ; unbaptized child brings bad luck, 261
Silver : amulets against q\W eye, Italy, 189 ; coin under threshold, Pales- tine, 58
Sin-eating : Armenia, 434
Singing : warns off spirits at night, Palestine, 59
Sins, ceremonial assumption of, jata- kas, 22
Siva, Indian deity, 333
Skaane, see Sunnerbo ; and Varend
Skeat, W. W. : review by, ^Max- well's In Malay Forests, 247-8
Skin diseases treated at wells, Eng- land, 253-4, 265
Skull : amulet against evil eye, Italy, 189
Sky : The European Sky-God, VIII, The Celts, by A. B. Cook, 24-53
Slavonia : folktales, 193, 360; holy wells cure children's diseases, 256
Sligo, see Moytura
Sloe : blighted by fairies on Hallow- e'en, Roscommon, 437
Slothful Gillie, see Gilla Backer
Smyrna district, see Boudroum
Snake : in animal cycle, China, 119 ; antidote to poison, jatakas, 21 ; breath poisonous, jatakas, 21 ; cer- astes or horned viper, 214 ; eyes grow after piercing, Aristotle, 215 : at feast of St Domenico, Italy, 187 ; in folktale, India, 428 ; horned, Egypt, 214; man-eating Thlen, Khasis, 242 ; in storj' of Iwain, 37, 43 ; water spirit as, 273
Snake-bite : amulet against, Italy, 189, 216 ; healed by St Domenico, Italy, 187. 216
