English boys. To name one example only, Hop-Scotch is as much a favourite in Spain as it is in Italy and England, though of course its name varies with the meridian under which it is played.
A lecture on "Ballad Lore" was given by Mdme. Hoffman at Exeter Hall. Songs of the minstrels, quaint street cries, the Morris-dance, old tunes, and modern ballads, were commented upon and illustrated.
The following are the titles of folk-lore notes in Panjab Notes and Queries (January): Marriage ceremonies, birth customs, donkeys, donkey-ride punishment, well-finding by goats, omens (jackals, spiders), silk unlawful for Muhammadans, churel ghosts, Chank, cures for sore throat, recipes for fever, nazar (evil eye, cause and antidote, black, protection against nazar), seed-grain, birth custom, kana, one-eyed man unlucky, omens, dreams, folk-lore from difficult sources. (February): Marriage ceremonies, holy stones, nazar (women not subject), use of surma and kajal, nazar in parents, disgusting objects fatal to nazar, opprobrious names, a cure, birth custom, death customs (female infants), spilling salt, overturned shoes, horses shaking the head, dreams, omens, crows, earwigs, wagtail, snake brain oil, metamorphosis, pheasants, magic squares, storms, first-born children, Panjabi proverbs, folk-lore from difficult sources. (March): Maratta marriages, birth custom, new moon, hare-luck, cross beams, luck, Ri-thlen murders, Machhi Baon storm-raising fairy, burning houses to secure male issue, nazar, seven stones, cures, deformities, remedies in the case of personal beauty, cattle disease, fish feeding in illness, snakes, dogs, ants, magic squares, Shi'ahs bread, rain keeping off, customs of the Woddaru, nazar wattu, Panjabi proverbs, folk-lore from difficult sources.
In the China Review for March there is a paper on Hakka folk-lore and another on Hakka songs.
In the transactions of the Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. vi. part 11, there is a paper on Welsh fairy tales by Professor Rhys.
In the Montgomeryshire collection of the Powys-land School of Art (April 1884) is a paper by the Rev. Elias Owen, on "Folk-lore, Superstitions, or what not," in Montgomeryshire.
