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Stoning, ceremonial : at marriage, Morocco, 502
Strachan : shape-shifting, 345
Strathdon : charm, 347 ; drown- ing belief, 348 ; saying, 351 ; song, 362-3
Stray Notes on the Folklore of Aberdeenshire and the North- east of Scotland, bv D. Rorie, 342-52
Stringed instruments : Azande,
3i(J Strongest Thing in the World type
of folk-tales, 494-5 Stumbling upstairs : omen from,
Suffolk, 366 Stye in eye : charm against,
Cambs, 365 Subscribers, 5, 281, 409 Sudan : [see also Dinkas ; Shil-
luks) ; kojur, 301 ; zdr, 300, 305-
308 Suffolk : omen, 366 ; to kill spider
unlucky, 366; toothache charm,
365
Sugar : in folk-medicine, Jersey, 249-50 ; ritual use, India, 196
Sugar-cane : in Holi fire, India, 61
Sulphur : as amulet, Kent, 367
Sun : not aimed at. White Ruth- enians, 95 ; human sacrifice to, India, 186 ; male, Assam, 485 ; in m>i;h, Baganda, 438, Mexico, 481 ; omen from halo, Jersey, 246 ; in tale, Assam, 485 ; wor- shipped, Siberia, 51, 54
Sunbeam : coat hung on, Mayo,
333-4
Sun dance, Amerindians, 148
Sunday : {see also Easter Sunday ; Low Sunday ; May Sunday ; Mid Lent Sunday) ; ist after Easter, fire custom, H. Savoie, 363 ; shaving on, in charm, Aberdeensh., 347 ; spinning wicked on, Swiss, 273-4 » wea- ther omens, N.E. Scot., 352 ; well custom, Som., 373
Suns, mock : omen from, N.E. Scot., 352
Surrey, see London
Survival in sociology discussed, 14-23, 32-3
Sussex : St. Clement's dole, 293- 4 ; Sussex Folklore, by M. A. Hardy, 368-9 ; tale, 391
Sutherland : " vow," 89-90 ;
" washer woman," 88 Sutton (War.) : elementing, 293 Swahili : admixture in, 462-3 ;
origin of, 461-2 ; tales, 460-1,
463-75
Swaledale : Christmas Eve, 376 ; St. Mark's Eve, 376
Swallow : lucky, Scot., 349 ; un- lucky to shoot. Piedmont, 278
Swan : respected, Siberia, 48
Swan-maiden type of folk-tales,
143 Sweeping : unlucky, Quebec, 252 Swinging as a magical rite, 175 Switzerland : (see also Oberwallis);
betrothal and marriage customs,
402-4 Sword : in hook-swinging, India,
159, 168-9, 185 Sword dances : Yorks, 376 Swyncombe Down : " cuckoo
pen," 390
T : in charm, Kent, 367 ; in divi- nation, Jersey, 248
Table : boots on unlucky, Cambs, 364, N.E. Scot., 349 ; omen from fall from, Cambs, 364 ; sitting on shows desire to marry, Cambs, 364
Tabus : birth, Modocs, 142 ; on food, Assam, 487, Pemba, 395 ; before hook-swinging, India, 153, 167 ; hunting, Nigeria, 405 ; on king, Nigeria, 405 ; of mother-in-law, 406 ; removed by castor-oil plant, India, .60 ; in tale, India, 394 ; of wife's relations, Morocco, 503
Tami is. : tale, 484
Tanjore : hook-swinging, 162, 165
Tansy : female of ragweed, Ire- land, 258
Tarakeswar : hook-swinging, 171
Tarbagatai mountains : as water- parting, 39
Tarland : communing with dead, 346
Tarred string : as amulet, Kent,
367 Tartars, 45
Taunton : well customs, 373 Tea cups : omen from filling, Wor-
cestersh., 370 Tea-leaves: fortune-telling, Jersey,
248
