428
Index.
the Lamia, 275, and with Mchisina. 285 Snorri, his tale of Orvendill, 290 Social development, suggested origins
277, and bases for, 278 Soiiale Glicderiing, Die, im Nordost- lichen Indien zu BiiddhcCs Zeif, viit besonderer Beriicksichtigung der Kastcnfrage, von Richard Fick, reviewed, 161 Solar myths, and mythological tales, in connection with Orendel, 290, 301, difficulties of, popular fairy tales, 302, Max Mtiller on, 153, origin of ball-games, 73 Solomon and his seal, 347, 354 Solomonars, the, of Roumania, 238 Solus, 205, 240, an-traig, or shore- light, 213, bais, 205, 210, 211, 244, corp, spiorad, 2IO, taisg, 205, 244, 245 Soma, form of altar for receiving, 326, hymn, 328, ritual of making,
352
Some Country Remedies and their Uses, by John H. Barbour, 386
Some Notes on the Physique, Customs and Superstitions of the Peasantry of Innishowen, Co. Donegal, by Thomas Doherty, 12
Some Oxfordshire Seasonal Festivals, with Notes on Morris-Dancing in Oxfordshire, by Percy Manning, (^7/.) 307
Sore eyes, cure for 388, throat, cures for 388, 389
Soul, {see Re-birth), in African beliefs, its life terminable after death, 143, plurality of to individual, 144, due length of its life, 144, capture, (^see also Exorcism), 332
Soule, Breton ball-game, 175
Souling customs and verse, Derby- shire, 70
Souls of the departed riding on clouds, etc., 239, of the departed, bees as vehicles of, 329, dwellings of, Indian, 332, 334, and elsewhere,
334
South, the, its influence in folk- medicine, (Ireland) 16
Sow-thistle juice as a cure for warts,
389 Spartan or Lacedn^monian idols lent, 337, idea involved in chain- ing idols, 341, result of seeing image of Iphigenia, 344
Spells, (^see also Charms, Mantras, and Neapolitan Witchcraft) 302, 303, and counterspells, 304, 305, 306
Spelsbury, dress of girl morris- dancers, at, 317, morris-dancing on church tower, 318
Spiders (in connection with Hell), by Edward Peacock, 377
Spinning whorls to avert Evil Eye, 8
Sphinx, the, parallel in modern Greek folklore , 276
Spiorad, a spirit, 206
Spirits, (yScc Ghostly Lights), various forms assumed by, 204, 205, 206, 227, 377, prisons for, 348
Spleen, enlarged, cure for, 187
Sprain, cure for, 16
Squire, the, of Oxfordshire Whitsun- tide festival 309, of Lamb Ale festival 314, of the morris-dancers,
317 . .
Sraddha, Indian rites for housing anew the soul, 335
Staffordshire folklore, the Hobthirst, and his congeners in Lincolnshire, 68, All Souls rhyme, 70, the Horn Dance, 70, marriage folklore, 91
Staffordshire Superstitions, by Mabel Peacock, 68, Alore, by C. S. Burne,
91
Staffordshire Horn Dance, The, by Mabel Peacock, 70
Stakes driven into suicides, 199
Stanberry, (Mrs. G. A.), Folk-medi- cine in Ohio, 185
Stepmothers in folklore, 299, 302,
303. 304. 305. 306
Stiff joints, cure for, 387
Stolen, gods, 355, meat, cure for warts, 387, potatoes, as cure for rheuma- tism, 355
Stomachic, a, 388
Stone, a cure for, 387
Stone, or pillar, earliest form of idol 325, 326, 349
Stones, the ' Hurlers ' 73, the Roll- right stones, 338, Salagrama stone, the, and its shrine, 345, Snake Stones, 284
Straw Goblin, The, by C. G. Leland,
87 Straw Hillocks, the, how they got
their name, 386 Straw-ropes, used in god-binding,
342 . . Straws in folk-medicine, 186, wart- cure, 386
