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Index.
1, 204-7, 211-2, 352-3, 360-s, 488- 501
Hy Brasil, 484
Hydrophobia : cures for, India, 83,
85-6, 315-6, 320, 504 Hymn-charms of Ireland, 417-46
Ibrickan : place-names, 183 ; tribe,
182 Iceland : {see also Gylfaginning) ; temples, 128
Ilium, see Troy
lUaunwattle island : meaning, 479 ; names, 183
Immortality : given by deities, Egypt, 149
Imphal : festival, 79-82 [plate)
Imprecations : flour scattered with, Palestine, 285 ; penalty in, Nd- gas, 308 ; thoughtless, are dan- gerous, 154-5
Inchicronan : place-name near, 476
Inchiquin : badger cave, 181, 478 ; blue fire, 340 ; Dalcassian tribes, 181 ; dolmen, dangerous to blast, 194-5 > fairies, 196 ; place-names, 184-5 ■> sunken city, 487
Incubation, India, 85
Incubi, 125
India : (see also Assam ; Bengal ; Ceylon ; Gilgit ; Indra ; Khonds ; Malabar ; Manipur ; Neilgherry hills ; Panjab ; Rajputs ; Sirmur) ; exhibits, 268 ; father's sister, 54 ; north-west frontier shrines, 176 ; Macauhffe's The Sikh Religion reviewed, 414-6
Indigestion : charm against, India, 326
Indra : corresponds to Thor, 61
Inheritance : Melanesia, 44 ; by youngest son, 19-20
Iniscaltra : holy island, 480
Iniscatha : legend, 183, 477 ; mean- ing, 181
Inismatail island, 183
Initiatory ceremonies : Assam, 302 ; Medicine Society, Senecas, 127 ; of nganga, Congo, 4.47 ; Sikhs,
415 In Memoriam : Alfred Nutt, by E.
Clodd, 335-7 Inniscaeragh island, 183 Innismaan : house guardians, 440 Inoculation against tabu dangers,
160-2 Insanity, see Lunacy
Insects in folklore : {.see also Ant Beetle ; Centipede ; Chhabka Cricket ; Dragonfly ; Hornet Mosquito ; Moth ; Scorpion Spider); Wales, 117; in witch- finding, Congo, 459-60 ; witches travel as, Congo, 460
Invisibility, Gaelic charm for, 442-
3. Ionian islands, see Corfu Iphigenia, slaying of, 138 Ireland : {see also Connaught ; Lein- ster ; Munster ; Ulster ; and under names of deities, heroes, kings, and saints) ; bibliography, 41 ; charm hymns, 131, 417-46; folk- tales, 110; Plummer's Vitce Sanc- torum HihernicB reviewed, 401-8 ; west, dangerous to tell name, 155-6 Irghus or Eerish the Firbolg, 182,
197
Iron and steel : {see also Horse- shoes ; Knife ; Nail ; Needle ; Pin ; Scissors) ; oath on, Hausas, 202
Iroquois : Converse's Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois reviewed, 126-7 '< orenda in hunting, 148
Irrus : legends, 482, 486
Irvine, M. F. : Scraps of English Folklore, 223-4
Isis, the goddess, 149
Island of Stone Money, The, by W. H. Furness, reviewed, 535-6
Isle of Man : bibliography, 41 ; folk-tale, 472-5
Isle of Thanet : hoodening, 247-9
Italy : (see also Bologna ; Calabria ; Etruria ; Naples ; Romans, an- cient ; Rome ; Sicil}- ; Tuscany ; Venice) ; charm against witch- craft, 163 ; cultus dances, 515 ; exhibits, 269 ; oscilla, 142-3 ; votive axes, 67
Ivalde, the sons of, 70
Ivory Coast : folk-tales, 257
Ivy : Christmas greens, Worcester, 263
Jackal : in folk-tales, Africa, 200-1,
258, 351-2, 498, 501-3 Jalalpur Bharwala : folk-medicine,
326 Jamaica : dangerous to tell nfime,
156 ; folk-tale, 260
