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Index.
Hoe : no charge for mending, Lower Congo, 311 ; as Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 302-3 [plate)
Hogmanay, see New Year
Hohammer : tale of strength-belt,
335
Hoianaii, the, 1 12
Hoi : story of htddre-lo\k, 328
Holed stones as amulets, Durham county, 74
Holly-tree : Christmas holly unlucky after Candlemas Day, Worcester- shire, 343 ; omen from burning, Worcestershire, 343
Holy Grail, see Grail
Holy Thursday : clothes not hung out, Worcestershire, 345 ; Feast, Yorkshire, 349 ; sheets not washed, Yorkshire, 349 ; soap suds not thrown out, Worcestershire, 345
Holy Virgin, see Virgin Mary
Homeric poems, 104
Honey: in folk-tale, Swahili &c. , 443, 445 ; superstitions about, Anda- mans, 268
Honor Oak : marriage custom, 222
Hornbill : shape-shifting into, Assam, 409-11 ; shooting secures village from illness, Assam, 140
Horns : as amulets, Italy, 70 (plate) ; as Easter-egg patterns, Roumanians, 302 ; mano cornuto, Naples, 71
Horse: amulets on, Naples, 71 ; fairy- ridden, Worcestershire, 347 ; horse- tail betrays evil being, Norway, 333 ; in singing game, India, 339- 40 ; untamed foal determines site of church, Norway, 315
Horse-shoe : over door, Australia, 95, Yorkshire, 348 ; tea grounds in shape of, lucky, Wales, 95
Host, sacred : remedy for sick child, Norway, 320
Hottentots : folk-tales, 440, 445
House : building customs and beliefs, see Building customs and beliefs ; salt sprinkled in new house, Dur- ham, 217
Houseleek : cures burns, Lincoln- shire, 489
House-that-Jack-built type of folk- tales, 389
Hov : kuldre-iolk, 325-7, 329
Howitt and Fison, by J. G. Frazer, 144-80
Howitt, Dr. A. W. : obituary of, 144, 150-1, 153, 158-73
Huld)e4o\\i, tales of, 315-6, 323-8,
330-5 .
Hull, Miss Eleanor: obituary of Dr. Whitley Stokes, 356-60 ; reviews by, — Parker's Gaelic Fairy Tales, 242-3 ; Boswell's An Irish Pre- cursor of Dante, 107-9
Humble bee, see Bee
Humshaugh : burial of amputated limb, 226
Hunchback : attributed to ndembo fetish, Lower Congo, 194-5
Hungary, see Ruthenians ; Szeklers ; and Transylvania
Hunter, as name of star, Lower Congo, 477
Hunting customs and beliefs : dances, Lower Congo, 463, 469 ; festivals, Assam, 139; fetish cross and drum, Lower Congo, 181 -2 {plate) ; kick- ing for luck, Norway, 321 ; mock hunt, India, 212; tabus for success, Assam, 140 ; throwing mop, Nor- way, 321 ; unlucky to be seen by woman or wished good luck, Nor- way, 321
Hunt the slipper : Lower Congo, 462
Husbands : name tabued to wives, Lower Congo, 310
Hyaena : communicates with dead, 247 ; in folk-tales, Hausas, 375-6, Swahili, 438, 445, 447-8 ; herma- phrodite, Nandi and Zulu, 247 ; skin in medicine bundle, Lower Congo, 43 ; can talk, Nandi, 247 ; transformed wizard, Bantu, 247 ; venerated, Nandi, 247
Ice : noise of breaking receives life,
Eskimo, 379 Iceland : Coomaraswamy's Voluspa
reviewed, 366-7 Igan river: in folk-tale, 83 Igerna, Queen, see Queen Igerna Iguana : in folk-tale, Queensland,
214-5
Imprecations : gain help of Evil One, Norway, 331 ; Lower Congo, 471-3; spitting, Lower Congo, 471
Inaba (Japan) : folk-tale, 251
Incantations : in spirit language, Eskimo, 379
India : {see also Andaman islands ; Assam ; Bengal ; Bombay Presi- dency ; Central Provinces ; Chotia Nagpur ; Deccan ; Gujerat ; Jains ; Kashmir ; Madras Presidency ;
