Stephens, Prof., cited on connection of Tobit tale and Grateful Dead, 243
Sticks used for making sacred fire, 281
Stone-casting, underlying idea of 13, 15
Stones; Arthur's stone in Gower, 77; Dolmens, 34, 44, 77; Druidical, 87; put on tree trunk to detain Dryad, 342; weather-controlling, 278; as charms, 10, 12; serpent's stone, 86; at Lindholme, etc., legend of, 275; sacred, Druze, 15; female monoliths in Europe and India, 184, 185; Greek, 168, 278; and secular, distinction between, 161
Storm-controlling stones, 278
Strasburg Cathedral, the Devil and the wind at, 364
Strathkiness, witch of, 285
Straw, broken to signify broken friendship, 18; effigy of Judas Iscariot burned, 384; ropes, 368
Strings knotted, as calendar in India, 139; coloured, in marriage ceremony, 140
Studies on Biblical Subjects; No. 1, Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs, "Tehom and Tiamat" "Hades and Satan." A Comparative Study of Genesis, 1, 2; by A. Smythe Palmer, reviewed by Prof. A. H. Sayce, 71
Suffolk, folklore of, 47, 366
Sugar ceremony in Indian marriage customs, 147
Suitors, the, of Penelope, 100, 107; probably a family or tribal council, 108; of kinsmen, 109, 119; their rights, 110, 112, 115, 117, 118
Sultanpur, brass image of Raghunath at, 184, 185
Sun-gods; Horus, 164; Ra, 163, 164, 165; Tum, 164
Sun-temple, Phœnician, at Old Beyrout, 9; worship, Egyptian, 163, 164; in relation to wheel ceremonies, 284
Sunrise propitious to cures by means of trees, 335
Sunday; sanctity in Highlands, 373; unlucky day on which to cut hair, 341
Superb warbler, in Australian folk-lore, 311
Supernatural, the, spontaneity of belief in, 160
Supernatural wife, tradition of, in Greek Isles, 341
Superstition, influence of, on crime, 255
Superstitions in Fife, by D. Hay Fleming, 285
Surrey, folklore of, the shrew ash, Richmond Park, 330
Sutherlandshire, folklore of, 372
Svayamvara, of Draupadi, meeting of the Kshatriya nobles, 108; or public contest for bride, 132
Swamp-hawk in Australian folklore, 311
Sweden, wealth of folklore in, 220
Sweeper, in Indian weddings, 143, 148
Swine and corn-grinding agreement, Ashton-under-Lyne, 380
Swinging games in India, 137
Swiss Folk-Lore Society, 78
Syra, death of aged people in, 114
Syrian bridal veils, 125
Syrian folklore, 3, 165
Sympathetic magic, 279
Taboos; of food, Australia, 264; India, 168; of green, in wedding
dress, 126; Greek taboos, 168; right hand, use of, tabooed, Australia, 327; women tabooed, 180, 252, 253, 297, 327
Tailor, the, and the Ghost of Chanonry, 89
Talismans, 256
Tantalus, why punished, 316
Tatooing, in India, 169; in the Lebanon, 18
Tasmania, natives of, 98
Taylor, Thos., translation of Pausanias, referred to, 174
Tĕhōm, 71
Teine Elgin, or fire cure for cattle (ill), 280
Telemachus, son of Odysseus, 100, 109, 110; his garth, 102; his mother's dowry, in; his succession, 115; the Suitors' conspiracy against, 120
Teutonic invasions of Britain, influence on literature, 34, 35, 44, 47
Theddora tribe, Australia, divinity of, 295, 296
Thiele's collections of Danish folk-lore, 195, 220
Thorpe, B., the story of the King of
