String Figures, by Mrs. C. F. Jayne, reviewed, 112-6
String games, 112-6, 325-9
Succubi: Syrians, 61
Suffolk, see Acton; and Staunton
Suicides: burial customs for, Scandinavia &c., 369-70, 372-4; in mysteriously disturbed vaults, Ahrensburg, 378, 385, Barbadoes,
Sumatra: (see also Nias; and Tjumba); bathing, ritual, 264
Sun: burning deity's effigy as spell, 221; eating only done in sunlight, India, 411, or when sun well risen. Coast Salish Indians, 411; eclipse of, see Eclipses; fasts in honour of, Harranians, 414-5, Manichaeans, 415; feminine, Irish and Old Welsh, 49; in folktale, Khasis, 242; Gawain as, 49; Lieu the sun god, 143; Lugh the sun god, Ireland, 131; masculine, Anglo-Norman, 49; Melkart as sun god, 127, 221-2; Osiris as sun, 222-3; Sais festival as sun spell, 222-3; Sandan as sun god, 222; Vedic Mahavrata a sun spell, 223; worshipped, India and Coast Salish Indians, 411
Sunday: fast on, Manichaeans, 415-6; first 3 in May, children dipped in St Madron's well, 255; well water drunk, Eshton, 257
Sunnerbo: suicides, burial customs for, 372
Sunrise: breaks spells, jātakas, 21; worship at, Barotse, 239
Sunset: worship at, Barotse, 239
Sunwise: Hallowe'en circuit of fields, Braemar, 85
Supplementary Notes on Cat's Cradle and String-Tricks, by W. Innes Pocock, 325-329
Surrey: as Hades, 140
Sussex: opening windows &c. to release soul, 216
Sutherlandshire: corp creagh, 67
Swabia: suicides, burial customs for, 373
Swahili: word moshi, 238
Swallow: eyes grow again after piercing, Aristotle, 215
Sweden: (see also Mälmohuus; Scania; and Vestergötland); folk-tales, 192-5, 197-200, 202-6; gates on corpse's road to churchyard hung upside down, 369; river spirits, 266
Sweeping: sweepings not thrown out at night, Greek islands, 331
Swine, see Pig
Switzerland: (see also Glarus, Canton of; Grisons, Canton of; Lucerne, Canton of; and Vaud, Canton of); "lavandières de nuit," 111
Swords: of Tethra, 132-3
Sycamore fig tree: jinn lives in, Palestine, 70; votive offerings, Palestine, 70
Sycamore-tree: in Livre d'Artus', 52
Sylvanus: assimilitates local deities, Gaul, 126, 139; mallet as symbol, 137
Synteng country: matriarchy, 241
Syria: (see also Beirut; Hamath; and Maronites); bewitched child drinks from 7 wells, 256; incubi and succubi, 61
Taboos: Eskimo, 96; Greek islands, 330; in jātakas, 22; Khasis, 242; Mendiland, 362; mourning, Greenland &c., 400-2; at puberty, British Columbia &c., 408-9
Tadg mac Céin, 229
Tahiti: mourning customs, 407
Táin bó Cuailgne, 138, 230-1, 446-7
Taise, daughter of King of Greece, 30-1, 46, 48
Taliessin, poem of, 145
Talmud, legend of, 72
Tamarisk-tree: leaves cure headache, Greek islands, 329; planted by Abraham, Beersheba, 69; sacred or haunted, Palestine, 70
Tamils: bullocks worshipped, Pongal day, 334
Tam Lin, ballad of, 89
Tammuz, the deity, 289, 295
Tanganyika, Lake, see Ubwari
Tara; contest of king with St. Patrick, 348.
Taranis, see Taranus
Taranus: associated with thunder, 137; Gaulish god, 139-40
Tarsus: burning of Sandan's effigy, 221
Tattooing: Malay tribes, 455
Tees river: spirit, 258, 274
Teigue, son of Cian, vision of, 164-5
Terebinth-tree: not sacred, Palestine, 70
