INDEX.
367
Dress of Spanish dancers, 298 ; of Romish priests called Salii, 300
" Drop the handkerchief," Cornish children's game, 52
Dropsj, Irish cure for, 11
Drowning, aversion to save persons from in China, 236
superstitions connected with,
Coniish, 190
Druidical monuments, unlucky to re- move in Cornwall, 91
Dublin, folk-medicine used by pea- santry in, 11-13
" Ducking chair " used in Scilly Isles, 45
Ducks, Cornish superstitions about, 193
Duel, to decide between the Romish ritual and that of the Gothic church, 302
Ears of boys pierced by Chinese • mothers, 129
Earrings, superstitious belief about, 214 Easter observances, hare connected
with, 263 Easter Tuesday, Greek festival held
on, 292 Eatables supplied for spirit of departed
in China, 241, 243, 244 " Eating the long fast," Chinese
custom, 225-226 Echternach, Luxemburg, dancing pro- cession to, 303 Edgecumbe (Sir R.), tradition of, 33 Egan, (F. W.)> on Irish folJi-medicine,
11-13 Eggs, auguries by, among hill-tribes of
Assam, 274 Egypt, religious and secular dances of,
283-286 " Ekke Nekkepenn," Friesland folk- tale, 335-338 Elixir, used as charm, Cornwall, 194 Epilepsy, charms for cure of, 206 Erisey manor-house, story connected
with, 21 Erysipelas, Cornish local name for,
202 ; charm for cure of, 202 Europe, religious dances of 300-305 ;
in South Italy, 305-311 ; in the High
Alps, 312-314 " Evil eye," belief in, in Cornwall, 194 " Evil eye " and evil tongue, Shetland,
261 Evil spirits, charms to propitiate, in
Guiana, 321 Eyes, superstitions connected with, 219
Eves, diseases of, charms for cure of, 203-204, 205
Face, superstitions connected with the,
219 Fairies of Cornwall, 177-186
of aboriginal Formosa, 143
in Irish legend, 67
dancing of, 98
music by, belief in, 156-157
half-witted people become, by
death, 179
unlucky to call by name, 177
sepulchral monuments under
the care of, 333
— - — in folk tales, theory as to, 347 Fairy-tales, modern origin of, 339-351 Family history, Cornish, 35, 36
Fan used at marriage ceremony in
China, 234 Fan dance of Spain, 296 Fanners, superstitious beliefs of, 192,
193 Feathers interwoven with rope in
Avitches' ladder, 3, 81-84 Feathers, birds', superstition about, 217 chickens', used in African
sorcery, 258 Fermanagh, Ireland, customs in, 333 Fern, symbol of conjugal life among
Japanese, 155 Fiji folk- tales, 254-257 Finnish folk-stories, review of, 162-167 Fire, ordeal by, practised in Cornwall,
97
superstitions about, 219 ; protec- tion from, 220
Fish, superstition connected with, Corn- wall, 188 Fishing affected by burial of suicide
in sight of sea, 160 Flatulence, Irish plant cure for, 12 Flavel, Thomas, Cornish ghost layer,
stories of, 23-24 Flore Qce, witches' ladder found at,
257-259 Fly-catcher bird of Paradise, legend
of, 353 Folk-lore and the Folk-Lore Society,
some simple methods of promoting,
62-65 Folk-medicine in Ireland, 11-13 Folk-tales of Fiji Islands, 254-257 ; of
North Friesland, 335-338; of South
Pacific, 254-257 ; see "Legends"
tabulation of, 70
Food, superstitious beliefs about,
Guiana, 318
