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St. Eiigid'i Day : saying about,
Hebrides, 39 St. Clair (Normandy) : St. Claras,
216 St. Coliimkille : connected with beast
stories and flounder, Hebrides, 37 St. Elmo's fire, 221 St. Ethelwold's Cross (Durham) :
bride steps over socket, 231 St. Michael : bannock of, Hebrides,
44-5 ; favourite saint, Hebrides, 44;
in story of fall of angels, Hebrides,
44 .
St. Michael's Day, see Michaelmas
St. Neot's: St. Neot, 216
St. Patrick : banished reptiles from Guernsey, 396 ; the stone of, Hebrides, 39
St. Patrick's Day : in sayings, Heb- rides, 38-9
St. Peter's Day : cuckoo goes away, Hebrides, 40
Saints, British, in Nova Legenda Anglie, 2 1 2-7
St. Thomas' Day : gooding. St. Briavel's, 173-4
St. Thomas' Mount (Madras) : fire- walking rite, 89-90
Sakhi Sarwar, Balochi saint, 260-2
Salem (India) : fire-walking. 90
Salford (Oxon) : witchcraft at, 290
Salisbury : St. Osmond, 216
Salish Indians : sulia or tutelar spirits, 369 ; totemism nascent, 384, origin of, 369
Saliva, see Spitting
Salmon : found dead, ought not to be removed, Hebrides, 37
Salmon, Miss L., Folklore in the Kennet Valley, 337, 418-29
Salt : obnoxious to bhuts, Bengal, 281, 283 ; placed on corpse, Hebrides, 60 ; thrown in fire to stop ill luck, St. Briavel's, 172
Saluafata (Samoa) : rights of rest of family to a man's property, 200-1
Samoa islands : {see also Apia ; Mataatu ; ajzd Saluafata) ; right of nephew to uncle's property (Vasu), 75-6, 199-201 ; totems and totem clans, 354-6
Sanctuary, right of : among Baloches,
273 Sandspouts caused by genii, Arabs,
285-6 "Sand, The people of the," Sahara
desert, 287-8
Sarangi, Indian musical instrument, 254
Sarawak : {see also Dyaks ; Kala- mantans ; Kenyahs ; Punans ; Sea Dyaks; ^//^Sibops); head-hunting, 436-7 ; Furness's The Home Life of Borneo Head Hmifers, its Festivals and Folk-Lore reviewed, 436-8 ; nyarongs, 349, 376
Sarinda, Balochi musical instrument,
253-4
Saturday : flit northward on, Heb- rides, 42
Sayce, A. H. : reviews by, — Paton's The Early Histo7'y of Syria and Palestine, and Duffs The Theology and Ethics of the Hebrews, 442-4
Scalds, see Burns and scalds
Scandinavia, see Beowulf; Edda ; Sweden ; and Tyr
Scissors : not to be ' raised above breath,' Hebrides, 30
Scotland : {see also Argyllshire ; Berwickshire; "Border Min- strelsy " : Caithness ; Dumbarton- shire ; Fife ; Hebrides ; Inverness- shire : Kinross ; Lanarkshire ; Mid- lothian ; Nairnshire ; Ross-shire ; Roxburghshire ; Selkirkshire ; and Stirlingshire) : bride's feet must not touch threshold, 242 ; healing water must not touch ground, 241 ; hand- fasting &c. , 446 ; newly dead serve predecessors, 283 ; saints in Nova Legenda Anglie, 212, 217
Scottish Charm against Witchcraft, by F. R. Coles, 275 {plate')
Scythe : sharpened against witchcraft, Newlands, 176
Sea beliefs and customs : hair combed at night tangles sailor's feet, Heb- rides, 30 ; knife in mast brings wind, Hebrides, 32 ; ptarmigan sign of safety from drowning, Heb- rides, 49 ; sea the treasury of Mary, Hebrides, 39 ; spoon pro- tects ship from tempest, Malays, . 164 ; whistling brings wind, Heb- rides, 32
Sea Dyaks : nyarongs or spirit helpers, 370-2
Sea in dream sign of weeping, Heb- rides, 51
Seal : bewitched child of king, Heb- rides, 36 ; in dream, as omen, Hebrides, 51
Seasons, see D'\ s and Seasons
