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Plants: observances with, on Good Friday, 74; used at perambulation of boundaries, 196; observances on Corpus Christi Day, 216; observances with, at Whitsuntide, 201

Plays: performed on Corpus Christi Day, 216

Pleasing Child, the: tale of, 164

Ploughing: method of fire-making, 355 et seq.

Poor, the: washing of feet of, 69

Porridge: poured into the sea as a charm, 70

Potatoes: lucky to set, on Good Friday, 77

Poynter, Miss M. M.: "A Folk-tale from Asia Minor," 313

President of the Society: election of, 2

Presidential Address, the, 3, 12–30

Priests' Haggart, 215

Primrose Day: in Ireland, 263

Processions: on Ascension Day, 199; on Corpus Christi Day, 216; Week, Rogationtide, 193

Pryderi: meaning of name, 51; relation of, to the Under-world, 52

Pwyll: meaning of name, 43; and Gwawl, 44; and Arawn in the Mabinogion, 31


Quasi and the Land-Fowl: tale of, 169

Queensland: professional healers in, 24


Rabbit, the, and the Gum Man: tale of, 117

Races at Trinity season, 212

Rain on Good Friday: effect of, on crops, 70

Raindeer Chukchee tribe: mode of fire-making, 358; implements used in fire-making employed as a protective charm, 361

Ram hunt, the, 200

Revels at Whitsuntide, 208

Reviews, 107–9, 231–36, 317–48

Rhiannon: tale of, 44; meaning of name, 44; punishment of, 47

Rhys, Sir John: announcement of death and obituary of, 2, 13, 110–11

Riddle from Herefordshire, 415 et seq.

Ridgeway, W.: Dramas and Religious Dances of non-European Races, reviewed, 236

Riding the Black Lad, 88

Riding the Lord, 89

Ring: used to cure fits, 79

Rising early at Easter, 80

Rive-Kite Sunday: Easter Day, 79

Roan Well: feast at, 212

Roberts, Mr. Morley: on the Pharmakos, 218

Rocester Lane, 246

Rocks rent at the Crucifixion, 77

Rogationtide, 193

Rollright Stones, the: visited on Good Friday, 75

Roman Catholic Church: use of new fire, 370 et seq.

Rooks: do not build nests on Good Friday, 71

Rounders: played on Good Friday, 78

Runaway blow at fairs, 203

Rushy Thursday: Corpus Christi, 216

Russell, Mr. R. V.: death of, 109; Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces, reviewed, 317; review of Sarat Chandra Roy, The Orāons of Chota Nāgpur, 107


Saffron cakes: eaten on Good Friday, 74

St. Anne, 403

St. Austin's Well: apparitions seen in, 79

St. Bartholomew, 403

St. Brendan, 105

St. Bridget's Eve, 272

St. Catherine's Well: keys and pins thrown into, 92

St. Clare, 403

St. Crispin, 404

St. David's Day, 398

St. Fintan's Patron, 215

St. George's Day, 399 et seq.

St. Gobinet, 273; pilgrimage made to Well of, 212

St. James the Great, 402

St. John's Eve: bonfires lighted on, 257

St. Lambert, 404

St. Madron's Well: observances at, 215