conception and definition, 64; savage idea of, 313
Godden, G. M., Ropes of Sand, Asses, and the Danaides, 368
Gods associated with animals in worship, 177; Australian, 290; Greek, not ghosts, 65
Goidelic, see Gaelic
Gold, dreamt of, Scotland, 373, 377; seekers for, Syria, 17
Gomme, A. B., conception by means of a glance, 82
Good Friday, a propitious death-day, Syria, 18
Good People (see Fairies), 60
Gorleston, fishing dole at. 245, 248
Gotham, wise men of, Danish parallel, 220
Gower, Wales, Arthur's Stone at, 77
Graal or Grail, the, 267, 350, 351, 352
Grateful Dead tale, and its variants, F. H. Groome on, 226
Grave-side memorial idol ceremonies, India, 277
Graves dug in anticipation of death, 123
Great Yarmouth (Suffolk), fishing dole at, 24 ; women's custom of levying money at, 366
Greek folklore ancient and modern; chastity tests, 130; death and funeral customs, 117, 123; dragons in, 234; games, the, their origin, 178; legends and parallels, 178; origin of popular theology of, 315; method of keeping away matchmakers, 128; parallels to German folktales, 233; riddles, 259, 260; ropes ofs and, etc., 369; Spartan customs on death of a king, 117; status of widows in, 106; storm-controlling stone, in, 278; tree-bed, 131; weaving ceremonies, 124; wedding dresses, 126; and veils, 127
Greek Isles, folklore of, Cyclades, 341; theatre, construction of, 176
Green, taboo of, in Yorkshire wedding dress, 126; Knight tale, in relation to Gawain tale, 265, 270
Gregor, Dr. W., on the bride's "providan" in Scotland, 127
Grimm, Aramaic parallel tales, 165
Groat placed in dead man's mouth, Lines., 187
Groome, F. H., Tobit and Jack the Giant-Killer, 226
Groot, de. Prof., cited on Chinese death customs, 122-123
Group-marriage, 162, 171, 254
Grundtvig, in connection with Kristensen, 198, 210, 211, 219; his collections of Danish folklore, 195, 210, 211, 217, 220
Guastella, cited on the true character of riddles, 258
Gubbio, municipal function at, Sicilian parallel, 257
Guernsey, female monolith in, 184
Guinevere, 266
Guingamor tale, compared with Launfal tale, 266
Gunn, D., tampers with a broch, and the result, 280
Gunnanbuly, or Gunnanbeely, wife of Baiame, Australian divinity, 300, 303
Gwalior, death-customs on death of a king, 116
Gypsy folklore, version of Grateful Dead tale, 226; Winged Hero tale, 240
Hades, 123
Haidah belief in death at ebb-tide, 272
Hair, of bride in India, 148, 149; cutting on Sunday unlucky, 341; cuttings, magic in relation to, 279; dressing on Friday unlucky, 258
Haykar the Sage and his ropes of sand, 369-370
Halitherses, 109
Hammers depicted on the Mycenae vase, 132
Hampshire folklore, British custom, 79
Hare, witch in form of, 285; form of, danger of stepping over, 286; lip, Scotch superstition concerning, 287
Harem of dead king appropriated by successor, 116
Hartland, E. Sidney, A Cornish Land Measure, 189; the "High Gods" of Australia, 290; Holy Week Observances in the Abruzzi, 362; the Tide, 272, cited on old customs in Homeric poems, 112; on Penelope's web, 122
Haussoullier, referred to, 176
Head, importance of covering while eating, 344; at marriage, 125
Heanley, Rev. R. M., on Lincolnshire superstitions, 186