Index.
571
Ceylon, 161 ; charms against, Cornwall, 161, India, 83, 85, 319, 323, 328-g, 504-6 ; in charm against bite, India, 504 ; cure for bite, India, 504 ; drinks buffalo milk, India, 216; in folklore, Wales, 118; in folk-tales, Africa, 200-1, 207-9, 255, Ireland, 479 ; Guga, snake god, India, 85 ; rainbow as, Africa, 202, 256-7 ; as seat in spiritland, India, 125 ; as totem. New Guinea, 533 ; varieties, Panjab, 216
Snake-charming, India, 328-9
Snakestone ring, Cornwall, 161
Sodermanland, see Skogstorp ; Stengvista ; Torshalla
Sohrab and Rustem, 234
Solomon islands : marriage cus- toms, 54 ; patrilineal descent, 53
Some Naga Customs and Supersti- tions,byT. C. Hodson, 268, 296-312
Some Notes on Magical Practices in the Banks' Islands, by W. H. R. Rivers, 2
Somerset : {see also Minehead ; Quantock Hills ; Taunton) ; folk- songs, 36 ; sea belief, 224 ; witch- craft, 150
Somme, see Amiens
Soot on grate bars as omen, Yorks, 227
Sorcery, see Magic ; Witchcraft
Soudan, see Omdurman
Souls : called away by nganga, Congo, 465 ; of men and animals not distinct, Assam, 262
South : in divination, Manipur, 80
South America : (see also Abi- pones ; Brazil ; Cordilleras ; Peru) ; ford rites, 159
South Australia : Frazer's Totem- ism and Exogamy reviewed, 389- 96
South east : in divination, Mani- pur, 80-1
Southern Nigeria : (see also Cala- bar ; Edo ; Wefa) ; folk-tales, 258-60 ; rings, 266
South west : in divination, Mani- pur, 80
Sowing customs and beliefs : Assam, 262 ; Denmark and Sweden, 75 ; India, 217
Spain, see Catalonia
Spanish juice, see Liquorice
Spanish Point : mermaid, 342-3
Sparta : Dorians, 135 ; omen, 159
Sphinx, the, 150
Spider : in folk-tales, Africa, 200- 15, 258-60, 351-60; in witch-find- ing, Congo, 459
Spinning : tabued when setting sugar cane, Panjab, 217
Spitting : in blessing, Congo, 454 ; in folk-medicine, Germany, 388, India, 315, 318, 330 ; in folk-tale, 158; in ford rites, 159; against witchcraft, 163-4
Spitting Cure, A, by W. R. Halli- day, 388
Spleen diseases : charms against, India, 325 ; cures for, India, 84
Spoer, Mrs. H. H. : Notes on the Marriage Customs of the Bedu and Fellahin, 265, 270-95 (plate)
Spoon : omen from, Yorks, 226
Sprains : charms for, 437-8
Springs : St Thor's, Sweden, 77
Squirrel : annual hunt, England, 30-3 ; in folk-tale, Africa, 260
Staffordshire : (see also Abbot's Bromlev ; Bagot's Bromley ; Bet- ley Hall ; Blithfield ; Bromley Hurst ;Burton-upon-Trent ; Need- wood Forest) ; omens of visitors, 226
Stairs : omen from meeting on, Yorks, 226
Stamer Park : ghosts, 344
Stanley Falls : good men have no stomachs, 105-6
Starr, F. : exhibits by, 129-30; gifts to Society, 129-30
Stars : (see also Evening star ; Morning star) ; Bunjil related to, 521 ; children of sun and moon, E. Africa, 255 ; origin of, India, 126 ; Zeus as god of, 133
Stealing Night, Castleton, 38
Stengvista : cross on monuments, 72
Stenton, F. M. : The Antiquity of Abbot's Bromley, 386-7
Sterope, Apollo's horse, 66
Sticklastad, battle of, 74
Stockings : omen from, Scotland, 8g
Stomach : not possessed by good men, Congo, 105-6
Stomach-ache : cure for, India, 83
Stomach diseases : cures for, Pan- jab, 314
Stone Age : symbolic axes, 67-9
Stone money, Carolines, 536