Bible, superstitions connected with, 246
Birth customs, Aino, 48; Mentra, 66; Prabhus, 75-77; Washington, 92
Black (William George) Charms and Spells at Gretna, 189-190
Blackening of faces, before battle, Sutherlandshire, 150
Blanket of the sun, clouds so-called, 100
Blood-feud and exogamy, Somali, 123
Blue flowers, growth of on the Cross, Dorset legend, 118
Boar, legend of, Sutherlandshire, 159-160
Boar's head, clouds so called, 102
Bolton (H. C.), Terms used in talking to Domestic Animals, 142-143
Bonfires on Midsummer Eve, Clare, 54
on Hallowe'en, Perthshire, 270
Borrowing of stories, Aino, 2-3
Bride, beating of, as portion of marriage ceremony, 124
, capture, Ross-shire, 264
Bridge built by kelpies, Sutherlandshire, 172
Brother-in-law, widow married to, Somali, 125
Buffalo legend, Mentra, 73
Building legend, Tyrone, 58; Sutherlandshire, 157
Bull-baiting on St. Stephen's Day, Longford, 62
Burial custom of the Ainos, 271-273
Buried castle and ship legends, Sutherlandshire, 155
Cakes at dances, Roscommon, 57
Calvary, Dorset, legend concerning, 118
Cambridgeshire, lightning superstition, 275
Cambyses, death of, 151
Candle, burning of on Christmas night, Longford, 62
, inch of, selling by, Somersetshire, 144-145
lighted, carried round the bed as a charm, Gretna, 189, 190
Candlemas day customs, Clare, 54
Cannibal giants, in Hungarian folk-tale, 201, 202
Cask, genii in, legend of Sutherlandshire, 153
Cats, omen of death from, Ross-shire, 263
Cave legend, Sutherlandshire, 152
Caves, mythical, origin of in clouds, 100
Celtic antiquities, superstition connected with, 117
Ceylon, Sinhalese, milk superstition, 275
Chamberlain (Basil Hall) Aino Folk-Lore, 1-51
Changeling, fairy, Sutherlandshire, 215-216
Charm, stolen, Aino folk-tale, 15-16
Charms, Gretna, 190; Ross-shire, 264
, Washington, 93
Chieftainship, Aino, 39
Child-ceremony at marriages, Somali, 124
Children, folk-lore connected with, Washington, 92-93
Chimney, fairies in, Dorset, 116
Chinese fairy tale, 192
Christ, folk-lore connected with, 209, 210
Christmas customs, Clare, 54; Longford, 62
Church folk-lore, 275
Cirrus, origin of the word in English, 96
Clothes of deceased father, descends to brother, 263; of deceased mother descends to daughters, 263
Clouds, folk-lore of, 94-115
, riding on the, Aino, 27
Cock mass, ceremony of the, Colombia, 210
, omens from, Washington, 91
, why it cannot fly, Aino, 8
Cock and hen, and the fox, Sutherlandshire story, 250
Collection of stories, mode of, in Japan, 1-2
Colombia, Christian customs in, 210
Comfrey, red-flowered, as medicine, Dorset, 116
Common, game of, county Down, 59
Conflicts, tribal, Roscommon, 56; Kilkenny, 64
Coracles, use of, county Clare, 54
Corn growing in one night, Sutherlandshire story, 161; Seneca parallel, 198
Cows, liability of to witchcraft, Antrim, 56; Feroe islands, 132
Creation, time of, mentioned in Aino legends, 19; Mentra, 66
Credun (St.) well dedicated to, Clare, 52
Crows, share' of man's food given to, Aino, 21; transformation of into man, 28, 42
