INDEX.
285
Kavens. hero guided by in Hungarian folk-tale, 200, 202, 203
Raven's Rock, spirit of the, Sutherland- shire, 227
Red colour in folk-medicine, 116
Rich, methods of growing, Aino, 23
Riddles and rhymes, Sutherlandshire, 236-238
Ring, the lost wedding, Sutherland- shire tale, 180-181
River legend, Aino, 33, 46; Sutherland- shire, 223, 224
Roads, broad and narrow, choice of, Aino, 32
Ross-shire, folk-lore of, 262-265
Rungni, story of, 101
Russian marriage ceremony, 124
Rust (J. C.)) milk and lightning, Ara- bian, 211
Rutlandshire, Danes' Blood, 273
Sacrifice at threshold, Somali, 121, 123
of animal on St. Martin's eve,
Roscommon, 57
St. John's fires, Roscommon, 56 ; Ty- rone, 58
St. Martin's eve, animal killed on, Roscommon, 57; Wexford, 64
Salamander legend, Sutherlandshire, 157
Salmon, worship of, Aino, 33
Samoan fire legend, 147
Sanborn (John Wentworth), FolTi-Lore of the Seneca Indians of North America, 196-199
Saturday, unluck of, 61
Science and Folk-Lore, 112-115
Sea, origin of the, Mentra, 69-70
Sea-monster, Aino, 47
Selling by inch of candle, Somerset- shire, 144-145
Senanus, tradition of, Clare, 52-53
Seneca Indians, folk-lore of, 196-199
Serpent, hunter takes the form of in Hades, Aino, 35
Serpents, good and bad, Sutherland- shire, 232, 249
Servian folk-tale, the lame fox, 252- 262
Shadow, man's, seised by Satan, 152
Shark, story of the, Aino, 28
Shinny, game of, county Down, 59
Ship, seen in the clouds, 97, 105
Ships, battle with, in Malay folk-tale, 134-136
Shropshire proverbs, 273
Shrove Tuesday, weddings, Clare, 54;
Longford, 61 Sight, second, Sutherlandshire, 238-241 Silver castle, in Hungarian folk-tale,
202 use of, to wash new born in- fant, Sutherlandshire, 235 Singing games, Essex, 211 Sister, father's, right of, to name the
child, Prabhus, 76 Sister-in-law, compulsory marriage of,
Somali, 125 Sister marriage, Mentra legend, 67 Sky, raised by Belo, Mentra legend, 67 Sleeping king or hero, myth of, 164 Snake, birth of from a woman, Aino,
38 Sneezing omens, Washington, 92 Snow, hares made from, Aino, 9 Somali tribes, folk-lore of, 119-125 Somersetshire, selling custom in, 144-
145 Sons, custom of naming from, Mentra,
65 Spain, Eastern customs in, 146, 210 Spells, at Gretna, 189-90 Spirits in prison, fairies supposed to
be, 218 of the departed in Hades, Aino,
37 Sprite legend, Sutherlandshire, 188 Spynie, loch, legend of, 187 Star legend, Mentra, 68 Stephens, (St.) day, bull baiting on, co.
Longford, 62 Step-mother, jealous, story, Aino, 42 Stocking, throwing the, at weddings,
CO. Longford, 63 Stone, legend of ill luck from removal
of, Washington, 88 magic, inherited in a particular
family, 221 Stone with impress of knee on, Clare,
53 Stones, heaped up, to mark spots of
untimely death, 63 Story collecting in Japan, 1-2 Sun -god, intercourse with woman
causing birth of child, Aino, 38 Sun-legend, Mentra, 67 Sun-rising, Aino legends connected
with, 19, 21 Sun-worship by mother of new-bom
child, Prabhus, 77( Sutherlandshire, folk-lore of, 149-189; 215-252
