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Index.
lam ; and Tees river) ; eggs broken for luck, 217 ; killing spider brings rain, 217 ; rainbow charm, 217 ; salt sprinkled in new house, 217
Dust : not to be removed from clothes, Lower Congo, 471
Dwarfs: India, 337; Norway, 315-6, 3238, 330-5
Dwarf-striking, Norway, 323
Eagle : in folk-tales, Scotland, 242-3
Eagle-hawk : in myth, W. Aus. , 341
Earlsferry : tradition of Macduff, 92
Earlston : firstfooting, 482 ; wapin- schaw, 482
Earth : amulets must not touch, Kin- cardineshire, 232 ; clods in charm, Norway, 323 ; luck destroyed by touching. Lower Congo, 44 ; origin of man from, Assam, 391-3, Eskimo, 377, Greeks, 423, 425, 429
Earthquake : in folk-tale, Assam, 134; myths of cause, Assam, 395
Earthworm : in folk-tale, Assam, 390, 395. Eskimo, 377
Easter eggs : Cheshire, 206 ; Durham county, 74 ; Hungary, 300 ; Rou- mania, 295-303 (plates); Ruthenians, 300 ; Servia, 300
Easter Monday : archery contest, Lancashiie, 206; boys' caps stolen, Durham, 74 ; eggs eaten, Cheshire, 206 ; tansy pudding eaten, Cam- bridge, 79
Easter Sunday : eggs rolled and girls' shoes stolen, Durham, 74
Eastertide : {see also Easter eggs ; Easter Monday ; Easter Sunday ; Easter Tuesday ; atui Good Friday); pace-eggers. Bury, 204, 207
Easter Tuesday : tansy pudding eaten, Cambridge, 79
East Indies : (see also Borneo ; Java ; and New Guinea) ; relation of peoples to Malays, 123
East wind : in weather prognostic, St Benedict's Day, Worcestershire, 345
Eccleshall : firstfooting, 222 ; omens, 220-2 ; whooping-cough, cures for, 221
Eckenstein, Miss L. : Personal Amu- lets (European), 131
Eclipses: cause, Assam, 391, 393-5, 418-9, Lower Congo, 58
Edda, 366-7
Edinburgh : amulets, 232 ; folk-song, 86
Editorship of Folk-Lore, 7-8
Egbo society, 104
Eggs : (see also Easter eggs) ; smashed by blindfolded boy for luck, Dur- ham county, 217
Egypt : folk-tale, 125
Elder-tree : unlucky to burn, Wor- cestershire, 343
Elephant : in folk-tales, Assam, 389, Chinyanja, 444, Malays, 85, Swa- hili, 442-5 ; tail hairs as amulets, 3
Elephantiasis : from breaking food tabus. Lower Congo, 308
Elf-shots, see Fairies
Elginshire, see Keith
Elixir vitae ; Lower Congo, 58 ; sake of youth, Japan, 251
Elsass : mountain dairies, beliefs about, 324
England : (see also South Downs ; and tinder names of counties) ; Sharp's English Folk-Soug re- viewed, 97-101; Johnson's Folk- JMemorv ; or. The Continuity of British Archceology xe\\tvied, IOI-2
English Folk-Song, by Cecil J. Sharp, reviewed, 97-101
Ennoki : rain stayed by selling ivory,
45
Entada scandens : cutting angers Biliku, Andamans, 263, 268-9
Epilepsy : amulet against, 513
Eskimo : Rasmussen's The People of the Polar North reviewed, 376-9
Esperance Bay : folklore, 340-2
Essex, see Newport
Etruscans : places struck by lightning sacred, 484
Euahlayi tribe : All-Father belief, 94, 493 ; totemism, 230
Eve : as Easter-egg pattern, Rou- manians, 302 ; in tradition, Ireland,
359 Evil eye : amulets against, Italy and London, 71 (plate) ; charm against, Lower Congo, 473, Sussex, 65 ; from fetish. Lower Congo, 473 ; pastor can chase away, Norway, 322 ; in salmon fishing, Norway,
Evil spirits, see Demons and evil spirits
Ewe tribes : folk-tale, 444
Exeter: ashen faggot burnt, Christmas
Eve, 489-90 Exhibition of Italian Ethnography at
Rome in 1911, by E. S. Hartland,
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