Index.
553
Galway : (see also Aran isles) ; Brendan legends, 484 ; sea- horses, 482
Games : lacrosse, Iroquois, 127 ; mediaeval, England, 248 ; pla3'ing the wer-beast, Malays, 371-4 ; traditional, study of, 15-6; Togo, 258-9 ; tug of war, Assam, 300 ; wedding, Bedu, 279
Garland Day, Castleton, 20-5, 33, 37, ^02 _
Garnets : in talisman, India, 268
Garos : dialect, 296 ; The Garos, by A. Playfair, reviewed, 261-3 > heaven, 300
Garter : of eelskin, Yorks, 227
Gaster, M. : English Charms of the Seventeenth Century, 375-8
Gaul : axe symbols, 67 (plate) ; sun and thunder gods, 67 (plate)
Gaur plant : cures snakebite, Sir- mur, 504
Gawain, in Arthur sagas, 233, 244
Gazelle : in folk-tales, Hausas, 210, 362, 487-9
Gennas, see Festivals
Geraint, saga of, 242-3
Germanische Tempel, Die, by A. Thiimmel, noticed, 128
Germany : (see also Luxemburg ; Thuringia) ; folk-tale, 157-8 ; spitting cure, 388
Gharib Nawaz, Raja, Manipur, 81-2
Ghent : exhibit from, 131
Ghosts : cause lunacy, Melanesia, 160 ; County Clare, 343-9, 480-2 ; death coach, Ireland, 190, 192-4 ; laying, Bucks, 222 ; offerings to, Crete, 137, Greece, 138 ; in place- names, Clare, 182, 184-5 ! un- natural death makes vindictive, 178 ; Wales, 119-20
Gilgit : saint's shrine, 176
Gipsies : Palestine, 275-6, 285
Girls : eldest daughter not named, Hausas. 202 ; house for, Assam, 299 ; tabus on, Assam, 301
Glamorgan : (see also Caerphilly ; Marcross ; St Donat's) ; Midsum- mer custom, 118
Glands, enlarged : cures for, India, 316, 321
Glasgeivnagh Hill : meaning, 184
Glenmeay : folk-tale, 472-5
Glennagalliach : meaning, 185-6
Glennagross : place-name, 185
Glenomera : spectre dog, 483
Glen Rushen : fairies, 475
Goat : (see also Phooka ; Wer- beasts) ; fetish, Congo, 457 ; flesh tabued, Assam, 309 ; in folk- tales, Africa, 200-1, 213-4, 260, 357. 360, 363-5, 493-4; goat- headed figures, Crete, 132 ; head keeps off white ants, Congo, 457 ; sacrificed, Assam, 309, Crete, 135, Palestine, 293 ; tabued, As- sam, 306
Goatsucker : omen from, Panjab, 216
Godhri : folk-medicine, 333
Gods, 5ee Deity, conceptions of ; and under various names
Goibniu, deity, 438
Gold : coin at firstfooting. Lanes, 224
GoU of the Fianna, 396-7
Gomme, G. I. L. : Scraps of Eng- Hsh Folklore, 222
Gomme, G. L. : Heredity and Tra- dition, 385-6
Gongs : collected, Garos, 261
Good Friday : squirrel hunt, Somer- set, 31 ; well custom, Castleton, 38
Good Men have no Stomachs, by A. R. Wright, 105-6
Goose : turned to stone, Scotland,
154
Gorgon, blood of, 151
Gortnamearacaun : meaning, 185
Grail romances, 107-17, 243-4, 246, 514
Graney : meaning as place-name, 186
Grape : withered by evil eye, Al- bania, 251
Great Bookham : birch-broom cus- tom, 38S
Greek folklore : (see also Achilles ; Attica ; Eleusinia ; Elis ; Epirus ; Greek islands ; Iphigenia ; La- conia ; Minotaur ; Mycenaj ; Pho- cis ; Polyxena ; Sparta ; and under names of deities) ; answer- ing questions dangerous, 158 axes as symbols, 60, 65 (plate) coins, 65 (plate) ; dances, 515 Lawson's Modern Greek Folk- lore and Ancient Greek Religion reviewed, 529-32 ; oak, 67 ; sun- god, 65-7 ; thunderbolts, 60 ; thunder god, 66
