INDEX.
Abercromby (Hon. J.): Irish bird-lore, 65-67 ; Irish stories and charms, 33-39 ; Mr. Nutt's paper on Irish mythology, 317
Aberdeenshire farming customs, 329- 332; fishermen's folk-lore, 353-357; folk-tales, 68-74, 277-278
Adder's tongue in Drayton's plant- lore, 147
Agricultural charms, 105 ; folk-lore, 329-332
Agrimony in Drayton's plant-lore, 148
All Hallow Een, 23
Alnwick, football at, 123
American songs and games, 243-248; superstitions, 23-24
Ancestor, soul of, in butterfly (Ireland), 213
Ancestors, invoking of, folk-tale inci- dent (Malagasy), 130, 131, 134, 135
Animal, bronze figure of, used as charm, 253 ; folk-lore in Drayton, 229-235; flesh used in folk-medicine, 98; heroes in folk-tales, 79-81, 166- 168
Animals, man in the form of, 364
Apperson (G. L.) : Tabulation of folk- tales, 152-154, 183-186, 216-217
Apple-throwing custom, 221
Arab folk-lore, 187
Arthur legend in Drayton, 113
Aubrey (John): Hearne's opinion of, 254
Aunt Sally game, 85
Australian Aborigines, customs of, 220-221
Baker, trade legend about, 322-326 Ball, game of (Ireland), 264, 319 Ballads, early mention of, 157 Barnacle goose, Drayton's conception
of, 271 Barrow called fairy mound, 261 Bathing customs and ideas, 356
Battle traditions, 150, 159, 187 Bees, rhyming proverb on, 279 Bell legend, 20-22 ; superstition
(America), 24 Bent (J. Theodore) : Modern Greek
games, 57-59 Berks, Shrove Tuesday custom in, 222 Bevis of Southampton, legend in
Drayton, 113 Bible, kissing the, in oath-taking, 63 Bible and key divination, 156, 380-381 Bibliography of folk-lore, 197-206 Bird legend (India), 302-306 Bird-lore, 65-67, 156. 232-235, 258,
266-272, 274-276 Birds, impounding wild, folk-tale,
19-20; see " Blackbirds " Birth, customs at (Connemara), 257 ;
Jewish, 187 ; farming notions at
times of, 331 ; superstition connected
with, 25-26, 378 ; from mother's
side, folk-tale incident, 50 Black (W. G.): Confirmation folk-lore,
348 ; St. John's Eve in Norway,
348-349 ; holy wells in Scotland,
173-175 ; Lilias-day at Kilbarchan,
381 ; Turcoman folk-lore, 43-45 ;
revival of witchcraft in Ross-shire,
288 Blackberries blighted by the phoca, 26 Blackbirds, unpopularity of, 120 Blacksmiths' lore, 321-8 ; custom on
shoeing horse (Scotland), 109 Blade-bone, divination by the, 367-369 Blood, custom of shedding on New
Year's day, 332 ; drawing from
witch, 349-350 Boat keel, copper coin nailed to, 351 Boroughbridge, tradition of battle
there, 150 Bridal flowers, 144-145 Bride capture (Ireland), 212 Bridget (St.), worship of in Ireland
139, 211-213
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