INDEX.
369
Hereford, custom in, 75
Herons, Malay traditions about, 330
Highland superstition, 159-161
Hill spirits, prayers and sacrifices made to, at Chinese funerals, 244-245
Hill tribes of Assam, dance executed by, 273-276
Himalayas, secular and religious dances in the, 277-283
Hindu women, dance performed by, 253-254
Hole in the ground, form of oath among the Somali tribe, 323
" Hole in the wall, Cornish children's game, 51
Holed stones, Cornish, 31 ; Scilly Isles, 40
Holes left in walls of houses for fairies, 182
Holy wells in Cornwall, 45, 90-94
Home-bringing of bride, part of mar- riage ceremony in China, 226
Hooper, spirit called, Cornish, 98
Horn-blowing, used to frighten evil spirits, in Guiana, 320
Hornbill, Ceylon superstition about, 354
— — Malay traditions about, 329-
330
Horse, superstitious cures for, 195
Horse-shoe, sign of luck in Cornwall, 187
Horses, headless, tradition of, at Pen- zance, 107 ; at Penrhyn, 107
House, pig's nose thrown over, Corn- wall, 195
House-leek, cure for corns, 13
"House with the Belvedere," Forbidden Door story, 113-114
Houses, holes left in walls of, in Corn- wall, 182
Human sacrifices, building supersti- tions connected with, 260-261
Huntsmen and dogs, tradition of ap- pearance of, Cornwall, 105
Idiot children under protection of mermaid, 190
Idols informed of deaths in China, 240
Illness, superstition connected with, 192
Image of dough, used as charm, Corn- wall, 194
Incidents in folk- tales, theory as to, 343
India, Southern, religious and secular dances of, 246-254
Vol. 5. — Part 4.
Indian Notes and Queries, 79-80 Indigestion, Irish plant cures for, 12, 13 Innes (N. G. M.; : on Birth, Marriage, and Death rites of the Chinese, 221-245 " Introduction song," Barbadoes negro
song, 5 Irish folk-lore, 66-68, 71-73, 331-335
. folk-medicine, 11-13
Iron pyrites, cure for wounds in Corn- wall, 188 .
smelting superstition, 352
Italy, South, religious dance in, .305-3 11 Itching, superstitious omens from, 219
"Jack and the Giants," Fiji folk-tale resembling, 254-255
"Jack and the Bean Stalk," Fiji folk- tale resembling, 256-257
Janshah, story of. Forbidden Door story, 113, 116-120
Japanese new-year decorations, 154-156
Jaundice, charm for cure of, 207
" Jew," Cornish name for field-beetle, 89
Jew-fish, West Indies, superstition con- nected with, 315
"Joggle along," Cornish children's game, 57
John of Gaunt, tradition connected with, 85
" Johnny Huntsman," American child- ren's game, 137
" Jolly Miller," Cornish children's game, 57
Kamman, game of ball called, Donegal,
3.32 Kerrisroundago, Druidical remains
called, 106 Kettle, boiling of, saying about, 207 Killuken, Roscommon customs in, 333-
334 Kilmactige, Sligo, maiTiage and funeral
customs in, 334-335 " Kimbly," local name for offering at
christenings in Cornwall, 208 Kinahan (G. H.): on Coi'nish folk-lore,
324-327; on Irish folk-lore, 11-13;
on St. Patrick and the devil, 71 King (Capt. J. S.): on Notes on the
folk-lore and some social customs of
the western Somali tribes, 322-324 King's evil Irish plant cure for, 13 "Kingdom coming," negro soug, 132-
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