536
Index,
Greek beliefs, 429 ; steal girls, Norway, 325 ; Yarromas, Australia,
485-7 Gibbon, see Monkey Ginger : revives the spirit-struck,
China, 519 Gipsies : burning property at death,
353
Girls, see Clitordectomy
Gloucestershire, see Ashelworth
Glove: as amulet, Naples, 71 ; left, unlucky to pick up, Worcestershire, 346
Goat: "eating the goat" custom. Lower Congo, 32-3 ; fiesh tabued. Lower Congo, 309 ; in folk-tale, Assam, 401 ; horn as amulet, Italy, 70-1 ; omen from, India, 337 ; pollutes corn, Nandi, 247 ; sacri- ficed. Lower Congo, 44, 480 ; some- times has master's spirit, Lower Congo, 62 ; white, in borrowing custom, Lower Congo, 33, and in making peace, Lower Congo, 37
Gods : {see also Deity, conceptions of ; a7id tinder names) ; theories of origin of, Greeks, 423
Goflet, in Arthur romances, 287-8
Gold : images in Silbury mound, 80
Gomme, Mrs A. B. : Folklore Scraps from Several Localities, 72-83
Gonorrhoea: produced by "medicine," Lower Congo, 34
Gooaree, Aus. god, 95
Good Friday : nails cut on, Worces- tershire, 346
Goose : feet as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 302-3 {plates) ; gander in folk-tale, Durham, 75 ; in nursery rhymes, Durham, 77
Gooseberry-tree : omen from, Wor- cestershire, 343
Gosengos, in Arthur romances, 115
Gothamite type of folk-tales, 220, 248
Gourd : in folk-tale, Shambala, 450 ; seeds in love charm. Lower Congo,
41 Grail romances, 273, 282-3, 502 Grain, see Corn ; Maize ; Millet ;
Pulse ; and Rice Grasdal : tales of kuldre-io\\i, 327-8,
333
Grass : as Easter-egg pattern, Rouma- nians, 302 [plate)
Graves : decorated with horns &c. , Assam, 139 ; gifts laid on, Scar-
borough, 233 ; gifts maybe replaced by models, Eskimo, 378; tuif sinks on murderer's grave, Staffordshire, 220
Great Bear constellation : myth of origin, Eskimo, 378
Greek folklore : (see also Aphrodite ; Athena ; Greek islands ; and Hera) ; Anthropology and ike Classics re- viewed, 103-4 ; Four-footed Man : a Note on Greek Anthropology, by E. E. Sikes, 421-31 ; Mair's Hesiod reviewed, 105-6 ; respect for places struck by lightning, 484 ; testing sacrificial victim, 233-4
Greek islands, see Crete
Greenland: folk-songs, 120 ; Rasmus- sen's The People of the Polar North reviewed, 376-9
Greetings, see Salutations
Greyhound, see Dog
Grierson, G. A. : Omens and Folk- Etymologies from Jaunsar, 337
Grodal : tale ol hiildre-ioVf., 334
Guernsey: dances and songs, 117-9; " Grand' Querrue " festival, 1 17
Guinevere, Queen, see Queen Guine- vere
Guizing, see Mummers
Gujeral : folk-tales, 125
Gum-boils: rite against, India, 212
Gwidon, in Hebrew Arthur romance, 281
Gywn the Son of Nud, iii
Gyal : in folk-tales, Assam, 390, 393, 397, 409, 413; in lawsuit, Assam, 408-9
Gypsies, see Gipsies
Haddington : firstfooting, 482
Haddingtonshire, see Haddington ; and North Berwick
Haddon, A. C. : communication from, 83-5 ; Copper Rod Currency of the Balemba, 93 ; reviews by, — Hild- "^wx^^s Japanese Household Magic, 383-4 ; Dieserud's The Scope and Content of the Science of Anthro- pology, 102-3 ' Beech's The Tidong Dialects of Borneo, 123-4
Hades : Eskimo, 377 ; Lower Congo beliefs, 54-5, 59-60 ; organized like upper world, China, 519; special compartment for those with heads cutoff, Assam, 136; visits to Other- World, Fiji, 253
Hail : in folk-song, Scotland, 87
