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Index.
Rice's fort, Louth, legends of, 119-20 Riches in Indian folk-tales, 399, et
sqq. Riddles, Aiivergne, 334 ; as tasks,
India, 429 Riding-ants, used in charnm-potion,
170 Ritual the parent of myth, 19 River miracles, India, 399 Rivers and springs, haunted, 181 Robin Goodfellow, 360 Rocks, people changed into, 208, 213,
Rode Shah, Indian Saint, story of,
400 Rods, used in driving cattle and
horses, Hebrides, 262 Romantic revival of the i8th century,
84, its chief outcome, 85 Romans, traces of in barrows of
Bronze Age, 89, and in trenches,
95
Ronga version of the Tar Baby story, 289
Rope in butter charm, Wexford, 364 ; reaching to the sky, Baronga idea, 227
Ropes of twisted hemp and new scarlet silk as charm, 487
Rosary, Indian, origin of, 418
Roscommon, belief in water-horses in, 123
Rose water in love philtre, 170
Roses in Sicilian processions, 253
Ros na Rig, Irish tale, 452
R.ouse, W. ri. D., Christmas Mum- mers at Rugby, {ill.), 186 ; Folk- lore from the Southern Sporades, 150
Rowan i^see Mountain Ash) twigs in water-finding, 479
Rubies, in Indian folklore, origin ascribed to, 437-8
Rugby, Christmas Mummers at, W. H. D. Rouse, {ill.), 186
Russia, (see also Finland), favour- able field for folklore study, 80
Sacred books of Japan, 294
cattle, Damara land, 371, 377
objects, Australia, 383
pools India, 419
spring of Vatna's church, Nor- way, French parallel, 460
thread, India, (5^^ a/j-<7 Buarach),
oaths made on, 409
Sacred tree, Cos, in cure of sick child,
181, of Japan, 306 Sacrifice, Animal, in Denmark, 360,
in Greek Isles, 177, in Sicily,
(modern), 253, in Scotland, 353 compounded for by fines, early
Japan, 306, 308
human, funeral in Egypt, 229,
in Greek legend, 40, foundation, 183 ; in Panjab, 392
to totems, 374
Sacrificial feasts, influence of, 371 Saint Allpitiful, 168
Andrew's Day, cakes laid on
graves on, Calymnos, 180-I
Austin's Well, Cerne, curative
properties of, 479, showing faces of those about to die, at Easter, 4S0
Bride's genealogy, recited against
Evil Eye, 261 Brigid, well etc., of, Kilcurry,
121
Columba, the patron of cattle,
Hebrides, 262 ; his sister, 271-2 his day, 267
Columba's armpit, plant, 275
Cosmas, 16S
Culhbert, bulls sacrificed to,
353
Damian, 168
Dominic's church, Bologna,
body of saint half-encased in pillar
at, 361
Dunstan, 476
Eustace, Finnish form of, 329
Gabriel's altar on the tower of
St. Gall, 359
Gall, monastery, towers of, 359
George, 169, in Warwickshire
mumming, 187, et sqq.
Geraud's porch, wraiths seen at
on All Souls, 333
John, invoked in charm against
half-head monster, 172
Baptist, invoked against
sunstroke, 166 ; why potent against ague, 165
Day, and Eve, water and
fire customs on, in Cos, 17S-9
Eve, Aeginetan custom of
the lot on, 155 : spirits go to Buck- land church, 481
v»ort, lucky plant, Hebrides,
275
Laurence and the Wind, wide
diffusion of tale in France etc., 334
