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lore of, Wales, 117; spirits of, India, 125, 310, 312
Rivers, W. H. R. : The Father's Sister in Oceania, 2, 9, 42-59 ; Some Magical Practices in the Banks' Islands, 2, 9
Roan antelope, see Antelope
Robin : as fire-bringer, Wales, 119; omen from, Bucks, 223, Scot- land, 90
Robin Hood : in dance. Abbot's Bromley, 40 ; hooden horse cus- tom, Kent, 248-9
Rocks, see Stones
Rohtak : folk-medicine, 83-4, 315, 322, 325, 333 ; healing gifts in- herited in female line, Jats, 83 ; patient neither eats nor drinks in healer's village, 83
Romans, ancient : (sec also under deities) ; worship of Jupiter Doli- chenus, 64
Rome : (see also Jupiter) ; straw puppets thrown over bridge, 143
Romulus saga, 230, 234
Rorie, D. : Scraps of Scottish Folk- lore, 92
Roro tribe : account of, 532 ; clan badges, 533
Rose, H. A. : Folk-medicine in the Panjab, 83-6 ; Occult Powers of Healing in the Panjab, 313-34; Panjab Folklore Notes, 216-7; Sirmlir Folklore Notes, 503-7
Rose, H. J. : review by, — Lawson's Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion, 529-32
Rosemary : Christmas greens, Wor- cester, 263
Ross Broc, see Ferns
Ross (Clare) : spectre dog, 482
Rosslara Castle : haunted, 345, 480
Rouen : exhibits from, 131
Rovuma river, see under tribes
Rowa : father's sister, 45-6
Ruan : banshee, 191 ; place-names, 184
Rubber figure in folk-tale, Hausas, 215
Russia : (see also Esthonia ; Kiev ; Letts ; Lithuanians ; Samoyeds ; Vologda) ; spitting, 163
Ryssvik : flint axes, 68
Sabowari : folk-medicine, 322 Sacrifice : animal : — Assam, 309-10 ; Crete,
i35> 137 ; India, 262 ; Pale- stine, 281, 290, 293 ; contact with God, 149 ; discussed by M. M. Hubert and Mauss, 524 human : — Crete, 133-4, i37> ^43 i Greece, 137-8, 141-3, 530-2 ; India, 177 ; oscilla as evidence of, Italy, 142-3
Saffron Walden : amulet, 223 ; hawthorn fatal, 224
Sahu Lakhu : folk-medicine, 325
St Aed of Ferns, 404
St /Engus mac Tipraite, 417, 421
St Agnes : in charm, Ireland, 437
St Ambrose, 417-8
St Augustine's Lathe : hoodening, 246-9
St Bartholomew : binds devil, 378
St Bartholomew's Day : fair fixed by, Staffordshire, 26
St Brendan, 404, 407-8, 484
St Bride, see St Bridget
St Bridget : on broadside, Flanders, 528 ; Brigantes the tribe of, 439 ; in charms, Hebrides, 444, Ire- land, 438, 441, 443 ; crosses of, Antrim, 9 ; fire at Kildare, 404, 407 ; pagan prototype, 403-4, 439 ; poem to, 417 ; sheaf dedi- cated to, Ireland, 197 ; as watcher of home, Hebrides, Ireland, 439- 40
St Broccan, 417
St Canice, 420
St Ciaran of Clonmacnois, 406-7
St Ciaran of Saighir, 407
St Colman MacDuach, 182
St Colman mac Murchon, 421-2
St Colman mac Ui Cluasaigh, 417,
423 St Columba : in charms, 438 ;
hymns, 417-8, 420, 422, 424-5,
428, 435 St Columcille, 408, 426, 436-7 St Cuchuimne, 417, 421-2 St Cummain the Tall, 417, 420 St Donat's castle : night-hag, 120 St Edmund, 37 St Edward the Martyr, 176 St Enda, 484 St Erik, 75
St Gall : charms, 438, 445 St Gerald of Mayo, 423 St Hilary of Poitiers, 417-8, 420 St John the Baptist : patron of
Decollati, Sicily, 172 St John's Day : special Offices, 422
