INDEX.
4o:
Crooky, game of (Ireland), 265 Cross-road superstitions, regard for,
101 Crow pound, enclosure so called, 19-20 Crows, rhyming proverb on, 280 Crystal, folk-lore of, 228 Cuckoo, superstition concerning, 258 Cypress tree in folk-lore, 144
D'Arbois du Jubainville, Lc cercle mythologique Irlandau, critique of, 175-182 Death, playing at, among children,
247 Denbighshire, divination by blade- bone in, 368 Dew on May morning, 191 Dictam in Drayton's plant-lore, 148 Dill in Drayton's plant-lore, 147 Divination by Bible and key, 156 ; by
blade-bone, 367-369 Divining-rod, 350 Doctors in folk-medicine, 99 Dodder in Drayton's plant-lore, 148 Dog, flesh of used in folk-medicine, 98 Dog, omen from (America) , 24 Donegal, hare superstition in, 25-26 ; May-eve custom, 90 ; red hair in, 63 Dorsetshire folk-medicine, 253 ; witch- craft in, 349 Dove, folk-lore of, 274 Dragon, Chinese superstition about,
318 ; Drayton's conception of, 269 Drayton, folk-lore of, 111-120, 142-151,
224-235, 266-267, 357-369 Dream prognostication, 90 ; supersti- tion in Staffordshire, 350 ; inter- pretation of, by savage mind, 302 Dress, bridal, omens and superstitions about, 353, 354 ; stolen from bathing maidens, folk-tale incident, 12 Duck-stone, game of (Ireland), 265 Duns, Fasten E'en ball at, 122 Durham, folk-lore notes from, 120, 158-
159, 189-190 Dwarf es money, Roman coins so called, 287
Easter Sunday custom, 221
Edmonds (E. M.): Greek folk-lore, 168-172
Eggs, game with, 85
Elixir, rejuvenating, 156
Epilepsy, cure for, by magpies, 156 ; in Sicily, 254
Epitaphs, omen from reading (Ame- rica), 24
Evil eye beliefs (Greek), 171 ; cure for, 379 ; spittal used to avert, 219 ; (Syrian), 187
Eye, bad, charm for, 31
Eyebright in Drayton's plant-lore, 146
Eye-brows, meeting, power of, 102
Fairies, beliefs (Ireland), 213, 262; changelings, 91, 190, 257 ; in Dray- ton,116; implements, 260; in Ireland, 140
Fairy mound, barrow so called, 261
Farming customs (Aberdeenshire), 329- 332
Fasten E'en ball, 122
Feast on St. Clement's day, 327-328
Fenton (John) : Folk -tales, 93
Fenwick (J. G.) : Notes from Wear- dale, Durham, 120, 158-159, 189-190; witchcraft in Scotland, 219
Festival offering to gods, 219
Festival plays, 1-8
Fife, proverbial rhymes in, 91
Fionn and Oisin in Irish mythology, 317
Fire, charms placed in the, 104 ; child jumping into, folk- tale incident, 50; not to be taken from house during churning, 257; carried round corn- fields, 23; not to be taken out of the house at childbirth, 257; supersti- tion, 34, 380
Fires on May eve, 90 ; on St. John's- eve, 348-349 ; on Midsummer-eve, 140, 212, 213
Fish, superstitions connected with, 380
Fishermen's folk-lore (Aberdeenshire), 259, 353-357
Flax in folk-lore, 287 ; highland cus- tom of walking on, 254
Flower-lore in Drayton, 116-120
Flower-superstition, 90
Folk-lore terminology, 285-286, 311- 316, 340-348
Folk-tales (Greek), 237
Football at Alnwick, 123 ; Chester-le- Street, 124 ; at Sedgefield, 124
Forgetfulness by charm, folk-tale in- cident, 16
Foula, superstitions in, 378-380
Foundation of villages, &c. China, 318
Fowl, flesh of, used in folk-medicine, 98
Fox, fishermen's dislike for, 259
Fox and geese, game of, 158
France, witchcraft in, 255
Frenzy, cure of, 101
Friend (Hilderic): Flax in folk-lore, 287 ; May-poles, 317-318 ; Flowers and Flower-lore, review of, 126
