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Index.

niatia, 429 ; of sacrifice. 261, 264 ; survivals of tril)al contests, 20-1

Gardening prosperous in Holy Week, Dorset, 112.

Garlands, May Day, 210

Gaster, M., Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Child-stealing Witch, 129-62 ; reviews by, Rosen- feld's DerMidrasch DeiUeronoinium Rabba. Par. IX. tend XL, 2-10, ueberden Tod Moses, 200-1; Strick- land's Segnius Irritant, or Eight Primitive Folklore Stories ; North- West Slav Legends and Fairy Stories ; and South-Slavonic Folk- lore Stories ; and Brun's La Veillee, Douse Contes Traduits du Koionain, 313-4

Gauts, Woden as patron of, 86-7

Geat, ancestor of English royal houses, 295

Gellert (Llewellyn's hound), locali- sation of legend at Bedd Gelert, 423-4

Gelu or Geloo, Greek child-stealing spirit, 143, 146-8

Geos, in Syriac charm, 151

German Bibliographies of Folklore, 464

Germany : (^see also Bavaria ; Bran- denburg ; Elsass ; Harz Mountains ; Heligoland ; Hesse ; Hessen- Nassau ; Holstein ; Lippe ;

Munsterland ; Neumark ; Olden- burg ; Pomerania ; Prussia ; Saxony ; Schleswig ; Silesia ; Swabia ; Thuringia ; Waldeck ; Westphalia ; and Wurtemberg) ; Ancient Teutonic Priesthood, The, by H. M. Chadwick, 268-300 ; animal forms of souls, 235, 345, of witches, 235 ; animals' heads as gable ornaments {ill.), 322-3 ; animals transformed human beings, 236 ; black ox respected, 241 ; cockchafer respected locally, 239 ; crossbill kept captive, to attract diseases, 244 ; mice a funeral presage, 345 ; pig pursued blindfold with sticks, 252 ; sheep sacrificed, 254 ; songbirds tabooed locally, 243 ; souls of dead as mice, 345 ; South, hawk encouraged to nest on house, to protect, 244 ; ladybird as child-bringer, 235 ; sheep sacrificed, 254

Ghiana, see Avezuha

Ghosts, Bedd Gelert, 424 ; Buddhist

(modern), blue, 28 ; Cairo, 389 ;

Wiltshire, 347 Ghul distinguishes Egyptian tales of

negro origin, 356 Giants, Korean beliefs about, 327 ; in

mythology of Thompson Indians,

British Columbia, 398 ; in pageants,

105; no traditions of, Wiltshire, 347 Ginna or spirits, appear as bright

light, Cairo, 388 ; bachelors thought

married to, Cairo, 388 Girnar (Kathiawar), miracle of

Krishna at, 10 Glacier, human sacrifice to stay,

Alaska, 171 Glamorganshire, see Merthyr Tydvil. Gloucestershire, see Dursley ; and

Painswick Glowworm, taken for luck, June 24th,

Belgium, 255 ; threatened with

beating, Italy, 254 Gluviana, see Avezuha Goat, carried in procession, 258;

eaten ceremonially, 259 ; human

being as, 236; hunted ceremonially,

India, 20 ; presence distinguishes

Egyptian tales of European origin,

356; sacrificed, Jliterbock, 253;

thrown from edifice, locally, 257 Goat's hair, child-stealing spirit

changes into, 144 Goatsucker, form of soul, 235 Goblins, Bedd Gelert, 424 ; Bernese

Oberland, 202; Jack o' th' Lantern,

Devon, 212 Godi, Danish, 280-1 ; Icelandic,

277-8, 284 ; Norwegian, 279 God, use of term by Malagasy, 169 ;

by Masai, 169 Gokarna, black pagoda at, 33 Gold Coast, white man's god black,

31 Gomme, G. L., Obituary of Lieut. -

Gen. Pitt-Rivers, 185-7 Good Friday. Dorset beliefs, 112;

magpie killed, Erfurt, 256 ; in

Syriac charm, 151 Goose, eaten ceremonially, 259 ;

feathers not used in beds, 243 ;

respected in S. England, 242 ;

sacrificed locally, 253 ; tabooed.

Great Crosby, 243 Gopala, title of Krishna, 6 Gorgon, The, Greek folktale, 340-4 Gorgona, island near Leghorn, origin

of name, 340