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427

Sussex, New Year's day custom in, 192-193

Swan maiden story, Ananci story parallel to, 284-287; Irish parallel story to, 316-324

Swallows, superstitions about (Spain), 295-296

Swallows' songs, antiquity of, 154-155

Swiss superstitions, 380-381

Swynnerton (Rev. C), folk-lore from Peshawur, by, 324-330; four legends of King Rasalu of Sialkot, 129-152

Tabulations of folk-tales, 128, 168, 200, 232, 272, 304, 402

Tales (folk-), analysis of, 41-51; Ananci, 280-292; German, 265; Irish, 52-55; Malagasy, 201-211, 233-243, 273-279, 305-316

Tales (folk), in regard to education of children, 259-266

Tamarind-tree, legend connected with (India), 376

Taylor (Rev. I.), on riding the stang, 298-299, 330

Temple (Capt. R. C), Panjabi proverbs by, 175-184; The Legends of the Panjâb, notice of, 399

Terry (T. C. Birkbeck), on stang riding, 394-395

"There was a jolly miller," singing game, 385

Thirteen at table unlucky, 363

Thumb, doubling the, to prevent witchcraft, 91

Thunderbolts (stone Celts) used as charms, 191

Tiree, ancient superstition in, 167

Tobacco chewing, origin of, in Malagasy folk-tale, 211

Tòkan-tóngotra, fabulous Malagasy animal, 171

Tomb worship, 157

Tomb at Christchurch, Monmouthshire, sick people cured by touching, 378

Treasures, hidden, to find (Magyar), 358

Trees, fairies celebrate marriages under, 91; superstitions connected with (India), 375-377

Trolls of Norway, 363

Tuesday, unlucky day (Greece), 217

Tulsee plant (India), legend connected with, 377

Vedas (the) and anthropology, 107-114

Vikings, query on graves of, 270

Vintage, fire-arms exploded during (Switzerland), 381

Wake (C. S.), Ananci stories by, 280-292

Walker (Mrs.), some Greek folk-lore by, 217-220

Warwickshire customs (1759-60), 351-353

Water, hero changes into, in Malagasy folk-tale, 203

Water customs at Eastertide (Magyar), 356-357

Weather, bad, Irish method of obtaining, 330; fowls prognosticate changes of, 380

Well superstition, 227

Welburn, riding the stang at, 298-299

Welsh proverbs, query on, 93

Whistling and ghouls, superstition (Persia), 194

Whitsunday custom (Warwickshire), 353

Whooping-cough, cure for in Lochee, 30; Tiree, 167

Witchcraft: spells on cattle, 57-58 on churning, 123; in Durham 91-92; in works of fiction, 299-330 in the Highlands, 396; Italy, 300 in Lincolnshire, 354; Magyar, 354 in Normandy, 331; in Peshawur Valley, 328; in Somerset, 228; in Wurtemberg, 382-383

Witch story (Yucatan), 250

Witches, requisite to Ananci stories, 287; hare, an ally of, 86; ride on magpies' tails on May night, 158; scratching a, to break the spell, 68

Wind, high, bird said to predict (Yucatan), 248

Woman, childless, regarded as accursed (Peshawur), 328

Wood (H. T.), on Cheshire wedding custom, 227

Wurtemberg superstitions, 381-382

Yatman (Rev. J.), on death-bed superstition, 196

Yorkshire local rhymes and sayings, 164-165; early notices of folk-lore in, 61, see "Richmond Castle"

Yucatan, the folk-lore of, 244-256

Yule-block custom (Warwickshire), 352