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Preliminary Address of the Committee on a Folk-Lore Congress 3
List of the Advisory Council 7
Program of the International Folk-Lore Congress 10
Sketch of Lieutenant Fletcher S. Bassett 15
Address by Lieutenant F. S. Bassett 17
Address of Welcome on Behalf of the Chicago Folk-Lore Society, by Professor Wm. I. Knapp 24
The Magic-Poetry of the Finns and its Application in Practice, by Hon. John Abercromby 26
The Northern Trolls, by David Mac Ritchie 42
Unspoken, by Rev. Walter Gregor 56
A Kind of Worship of the Dead in Finland, by Prof. Kaarle Krohn 64
Funeral Customs and Rites among the Southern Slavs in Ancient and Modern Times, by Cav. Vid Vuletic Vukasovic 70
A Few Notes on the Songs of the Southern Slavs, by Cav. Vid Vuletic Vukasovic 83
Three Polish Folk-Songs, by Michael de Zmigrodzki 88
The Prehistoric Worship of the Hop among the Slavs and its Relation to Soma, by Erasmus Majewski 90
Buried Alive, by Rev. H. F. Feilberg 104
The Rise of Empiricism, by Otis Tufton Mason 117
Notes on Cinderella, by E. Sidney Hartland, F. S. A 125
The Fatality of Certain Places to Certain Persons, by Miss C. S. Hawkins Dempster 137
Telling the Bees, Eugene Field 141
The Symbol of the Vase, in Myth, Ideography, Language, Hagiography, Literature and Folk-Lore, by Dr. Stanislas Prato 143
Some Popular Beliefs of Egypt, by G. Maspero 174
Modern Greek Folk-Mythology, by Lucy M. J. Garnett 182
Some Notes on the Primitive Horde, by Ludwig Krzyurcki 199
The Sign Language of the Plains Indian, by H. L. Scott, Captain, 7th Cavalry, U. S. Army 206
Sioux Mythology, by Dr. Charles A. Eastman 221
Some Sacred Objects of the Navajo Rites, by Washington Matthews, Surgeon, U. S. Army 227
Diurnal Birds of Prey and Mexican Symbolism, by Count H. De Charency 248
Discussion, by John G. Bourke, Captain 3d Cavalry, U. S. A. 256
Pigments in Ceremonials of the Hopi, by A. M. Stephen 260
Legendary Lore of the Coast Tribes of Northwestern America, by James Deans 266
The Antiquity of the Folk-Lore of the American Indian, by Katherine S. Stanberry 278