Rain: associated with mythical beings, Andamans, 261, 264, 266, Australia, 493, and Pleiades, Lower Congo, 477; charm against, Lanarkshire, 353-4; German band brings, England, Fifeshire, 348, 490; killing beetle brings, Worcestershire, 344; killing spider brings, Durham, 217; omens of, Oxfordshire, 490, Worcestershire, 344; origin of, Lower Congo, 59; prevented by selling ivory, Lower Congo, 45, or throwing salt in fire, Lower Congo, 476; in proverb, Durham, 75; rain-making, Chewa, 440; weather prognostic, Lower Congo, 477
Rainbow charm, Durham county, 217; God's lip, Assam, 395; rests over Wahwee's waterhole, N.S.W., 487
Rain god: Assam, 418
Rainwater: on Ascension Day black, Gloucestershire, 489, and heals eyes, Shropshire and Worcestershire, 491; tabued, Nandi clan, 247
Rajputána: bathing of deity, 213
Ram, see Sheep
Râmâyana, the, 125
Rat: (see also Bamboo-rat; and Palm-rat); charm against, Japan, 384; omen from, Worcestershire, 344
Raven: in myth, Eskimo, 378
Read, Miss D. H. Moutray: Burial of Amputated Limbs, 226; Opening Windows, etc., for the Dead, 229
Red: eggs at Easter, Roumanians, 296-300 (plates); in charms, Staffordshire, 221, Worcestershire, 346; in rheumatism amulet, Fife, 231; in witchcraft amulet, Aberdeenshire, 231
Redmarley: Ascension Day rain cures bad eyes, 491
Reeds: (see also Nsakusaku); in folk-tale, Assam, 403-4
Reincarnation beliefs: Australia, 126; entry in ndembo society confers new body. Lower Congo, 190-1
Reindeer: unlucky shot at, Norway, 321
Relationship, blood: Australia, 150-1, 255-6; Fiji islands, 150, 155, 255; Tonga, 150
Relationship, group: Australia, 150-1, 166, 168, 173-80
Religion: (see also Buddhism; Deity, conceptions of; Gods; and Jains); defined, 381; magic a later conception than, 104; Pre-Animistic Stages in Religion, by E. Clodd, 354-5; Marett's The Threshold of Religion reviewed, 235-41
Religion of the Andaman Islanders, The, by A. R. Brown, 130, 257-71, by A. Lang, 492-7
Religions Mœurs et Legendes, by A. van Gennep, reviewed, 515-6
Reminiscences of Lancashire and Cheshire when George IV was King, by Miss C. S. Burne, 203-7
Renfrewshire, see Wemyss
Reptiles in folklore, see Crocodile; Frog; Lizard; Snake; Toad; Tortoise; and Turtle
Revenants, see Ghosts
Reviews, 97-128, 235-56, 361-84, 501-20
Rheumatism: amulets for, Fife, 231, South Downs, 64; cure for, Burma, 484
Rhymes, see Folk-songs; and Nursery rhymes
Rhys, Sir J.: review by,—Pokorny's Der Ursprung des Arthursage, 503-4
Rice: harvest custom, Swahili, 436; tabus for welfare of, Assam, 140
Riddles: Durham, 73; Hausa, 374; Fiji islands, 155
Ringinglow: Michael and his dogs, 348
Rites de Passage, Les, by A. van Gennep, reviewed, 509-11
Rivers and streams: (see also under names); images offered to demons of, Assam, 399; myths of origin, Australia, 340-2; river bars as entrances to spirit land, Veys, 128; tales to explain names, Assam, 413
Rivers, W. H. R.: review by,—Thomson's The Fijians, 252-5
Robin: killing kills mother, Lincolnshire, 489; omen from, Worcestershire, 344
Robin Hood, 90, 204
Rocks, see Stones
Röimœn: tale of huldre-folk, 334
Romans: first men born from trees, 423
Rome: amulets, 70-1 (plate); Exhibition of Italian Ethnography at Rome in 1911, by E. S. Hartland, 224-6