Index.
329
Examination of the dead, 52
Fairies : in Ireland, 312 seqq. ;
forts, in Ireland, 312 seqq. ;
blight, in Ireland, 314 ," darts,
in Ireland, 314 ; doctors, in
Ireland, 319 ; mounds, in Ire- land, 312 seqq. Faridpur : praying palm at, 158 Fasting in mourning, 43 Feasts : feasting at Christmas,
150, 152 Feudal system : in Ireland, 287 Fire : use of, in mourning, 44, 45 Folk-healing : in Brittany, 80 " Folk-lore," appointment of
Editor, 3 Folk Tales :
Daughter of the Sun and Daughter of the Moon, 185
Le Roi Grallon and La Ville d'ys, 79 seq.
Medio PoUito, the Half Chicken, 75 seq.
Picking Teeth : In the Ashes, 211
Password, the, 215
Seven Robbers, 207
Sleeping Daughter of the Sun, 187
Sons of Peive, the Sun, 179 Food for the dead, 39 Foundation-laying: in India, 132 Francis, H. T. : on " Medio
Pollito," 75 seqq. Frazer, Sir J. G. : KiUing of the
Khazar Kings, 162 seq.
Games : The Town of Barbaric, 82 ; at Christmas, 147
Gaster, Dr. M. : review of G. Friedlander, Jewish Fairy Tales, 91 seqq.
Georgewitch, Mr. T. R. : on " Parthenogenesis in Serbian Popular Tradition," 58 seqq.
Ghasiya tribe : omens in house- building, 135
Ghost, fear of the, 135
Godiva, Queen, 274
Goodrich, E. S. : on " Eastern Church Ceremonies," 163
Grallon, le Roi, tale of, 79 seq.
Grave : the dwelling-place of the dead, 48
Greek Orthodox Church : cere- monies of, 163 ; use of rosaries, 277 seqq.
Griha-pravesa : rite of house- entering, 138 Guhkhan : a house spirit, 137
Hackings at Christmas, 68
Haddon, Dr. A. C. : on " Me- lanesian influence in Easter Island," 161 seq.
Haggis at Christmas, 68
Haida tribe : cremation of the dead, 52
Hall, Miss E. : on " The Black Pig of Kiltrustan," 226
Hartland, Dr. E. S. : on Matri- lineal Kinship among North American Indians, 87 ; re- views of J. Trabucco, Porphyre, L'Antre des Nymphes, 90 seq. ; W. J. Perry, The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia ; obituary of M. Paul Sebillot, 252 seqq.
Hebrews : prohibition of cutting for the dead, 53
Holland, Mrs. M. A. : on " In- fluence of Burial Customs on the belief in a Future State," 34 seqq.
Honours conferred on Ex-Presi- dents of the Society, 96
Hoodeners at Christmas, 147
Hottentot tribe : disposal of the dead, 47
House, the : in India, 113 seqq. ; burial, 47 ; materials used by Indo-Europeans, 115 ; jsite fixed by divination, 131; precaution- ary rites in building, 133 seq. ; direction of, 134 ; shape of, 135 ; danger of entering for the first time, 136 ; pollution of, 141
Human sacrifice : in India, 139
Imam : "a leader," the chief
bead in a rosary, 270 India: the house in, 113 seqq. ;
knots used as mnemonic signs,
237 ; rosaries, uses of, 265 Indians of North America : matri-
lineal kinship among, 87 Initiation rites : use of rosaries
in, 261 Ireland : fairies and sanctuaries,
159 seq. ; tally sticks, use of,
258 Izhuvan tribe : rites at entry into
a new house, 136 seq.
