contest for, tales, 132; Homeric parallels to Indian tales, master maid, the, 121; Panch Phul Ranee, 121; variants of the test of recognition theme, 131; Kaffir chiefs of the Hindu Kush, duties of, 103; Mohammedan festivals in, 137, 138, marriage and betrothal ceremonies (Mohammedan), 136; customs in, wife purchase, 105; bride's dress, 125, 127; among the Jâts, 128; coloured knotted strings used in, 139, 140, 171; North-West Provinces of, legends and parallels, 171; Ragunath idol, the, 184, 185; sacred colour, in, 185; Soma, altar in, 184; status of widows in, 106; swinging games, 137; totemism in, 168, 169, 171
Indolence, cord of, Ionian proverb on, 369
Indovinelli, see Riddles
Indra, rain-god, India, 279
Insanity, treatment of, in Syria, 12
Inshore, Scotland, gold at, dreamt of in vain, 377
Interregnum, results of, 115-118, 120
Ionian proverb on ropes, 369
Ireland (see Dolmens); ancient belief in mystic nature of dyeing, 124; Correctness of its traditional chronology, 57; influence of the Continent on legends, 62; legendary topography, 57; Pre-Christian immigrations into, 35, 55; well-god, worship in, 279; widows in early days, 106; witchcraft, Clonmel case of, 255
Iron (see Needles) inimical to demons, India, 140; Lincolnshire, 186; Syria, 12; put into water, 368; as cure for Evil Eye, 378
Isle de Kyphnos, Folklore de l', par Henri Hauttecœur, reviewed, 341
Isle de Siphnos, par Henri Hauttecœur, reviewed, 341
Italy, folklore of (see Abruzzi, Calabria, Naples, Sicily); catch-words of, 261; Devil, the, and the wind, San Remo, 364; Grateful Dead, version of, 232; Gubbio festival, the, 257; magic dresses, 129; riddles, 259, 260; sacrifice, alleged modern human, 362
Jack the Giant-Killer, F. H. Groome on, 236
James, M. E, the Tide, 189
Japan, folklore of; actors, how rewarded, 93; needles offered to palms at Sakai, 368; wedding dresses in, 125
Japhet's rain-controlling stone, 278
Jarvis, cited on effects of interregnum, 115, 116
Jason, 126
Jâts, bride's dress amongst, 128
Jay, once a man, Australian folklore, 306
Jewish folklore (see also Hebrew); Benjamin's mess, 103; David's harem taken by Absalom, 116; Tobit, story of, 242; wedding-dress, Jewish, 126
Jews in tale of Grateful Dead, 226, 235
Jin, fairies of Syria, etc., 12; marriages of, 16; their avocations, 19
John Basiliwich, Great Duke of Muscovy, etc., feeds his guests, 103; of Gaunt, toasts to, at Hocktide, 283
Joseph of Arimathea, legend as the germ of the Holy Grail Cycle, 346; details of tale, 347
Judas Iscariot, burned in effigy, Spanish Easter custom, 284
Jus Primæ Noctis, P. K., 366
Justinian, interregnum during last illness of, 116
Julâha, the, and the linseed field, and parallel tales, 171
Jutland, folklore of, collected by Kristensen, 196-198; value of, 215
Ka, the "double" in Egyptian theology, 339
Kabîr, burial of, 171
Kaffir chiefs of the Hindu Kush, their duties, 103
Kâlarudradeva, idol-ceremonies connected with, 277
Kalmuck marriage customs, 112
Kamilaroi tribe, Australian, European influence on sacred ceremonies of, 303; food-taboo, 326
Kangaroo tails worn at Australian Bora dances, 300
Karween, man made by Bunjil, 315
Kashmir tale of the Weaver and the Shroud, 122
Kava cup and parallels, 103