Index.
537
Hair : on breast shows truthfulness, India, 337 ; in cursing, Lower Congo, 472 ; cut during moon's wax, Worcestershire, 342 ; dressing, Assam, 4i6(//ai's), 420; lock buried under house post, Assam, 133-4 ; omen from burning of, Durham, 73 ; unlucky to keep, Staffordshire, 348, Vcirkshire, 348
Hakka Chins : exhibits, 386
Hales, solar and lunar : made by departed spirits. Lower Congo, 59
Hampden, John, legend of, 219
Hampshire, see Winchester
Hampton Court Palace : folk-tale of Diana fountain, 218
Hanbury: firstfooting, 222 ; mistletoe protects against lightning, 220; sore not rubbed with forefinger, 221
Hand : of beggar as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 302 {plate)
Hanging : meeting eyebrows omen of, Lincolnshire, 217
Hangman's rope as charm, 513
Hanna, W. : "Sympathetic" Magic, 95-6
Hare : ear as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 302 {plate) ; in folk- tales, Subiya, 456, Swahili, 438, 440-8, Tete, 439, Zambezi river,
454
Hartland, E. S. : Exhibition of Italian Ethnography at Rome in 191 1, 224-6 ; reviews by, — The Bawenda of the Spelonken {Ti-ansvaal), 122 ; van Gennep's Les Rites de Passage, 509-11 ; short notice by, — Bourhill and Drake's Fairy Tales from South Africa, 128
Hartlebury : folklore notes, 342-8
Harvest customs and beliefs : {see also Firstfruits) ; "Grand' Querrue" festi- val, Guernsey, 117; Mell suppers, Durham, 74
Hascombe : witchcraft, 490-1
Haunted places : Worcestershire, 347
Hatisa Stories and Riddles, by H. G. Harris, reviewed, 374-6
Hautes Pyrenees, see Gavarnie ; and Luz St Sauveur
Hawick : firstfooting, 482
Hawthorn-tree : blossom unlucky before May, Worcestershire, 343
Head : cut off in war. Lower Congo, 36-7 ; as drinking cup. Lower Congo, 36 ; as war trophy, Lower Congo, 36
Headless ghosts : Durham, 75 Head-hunting among the Hill Tribes
of Assam, by T. C. Hodson, 129,
132-43 {plates) Headlam : in proverb, 73 Heart : amulet in shape of, Scotland,
231-2 ; in charm against evil eye,
Sussex, 65 ; in sympathetic magic,
Yorkshire, 483 Heaven : in visions of St Adamnan,
107-8 Hebrews, see Jews Hebrides, see lona Hector de Mareis, in Arthur romances,
278, 284-5, 291-2 Hell : Hell Hole, Yorkshire, 75 ;
in vision of St Adamnan, 107-8 Helslon: cancer cure, 488 ; Christmas
buns, 48S ; cross in charms, 488 ;
May births unlucky, 488 ; New Year
custom, 488 ; saying of sea, 488 Hen : augury from, Algiers, 209 ; as
Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians,
302 {plate) ; in proverb, Durham,
73 Hera, the goddess, 514 Herb of Love stolen from churchyard,
Malta, 373 Hernia : from stealing from black- smith's forge. Lower Congo, 311 Heron : in folk-tale, S. Africa, 446-7 Herring : bones and eyes given to cap- tive by hnldre4oVvi, Norway, 331 Hevne : tale oi huldre-ioWi., 335 Hesiod. The Poems and Fragments done into English Prose, by A. W. Mair, reviewed, 105-6, 421-31 Hiccough : charm against, Durham,
77, Worcestershire, 346 Hidden treasure, j'i?!? Treasure Hildburgh, W. L. : exhibits by, 7 Hills : {see also tinder names) ; tales
to explain names of, Assam, 413 Hippopotamus : flesh tabued, Lower
Congo, 308 Hiroi Lamgang : eclipse myth, 417-8 History of the Destruction of the Round Table as told in Hebrew in the Year 1279, The, by M. Gaster, 272-94, by Miss J. L. Weston, 497-8 Hob Gate, Durham, 75 Hockey : Lower Congo, 457 Hodson, T. C. : Head-hunting among the Hill Tribes of Assam, 129, 132- 43 {plates) ; notes to Folk-Tales of the Lushais and their neighbours, 417-20
