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Brigdy, monster so-called by sailors, 351

Britten (James): Some customs of the aborigines of the Albert district of New South Wales, 220-221; changelings in Ireland, 91; Irish folk-tales, 193-197; on why the cliffs of England are white, 23

Brown (Robert): Bible and key divination, 156; magpie as a cure for epilepsy, 156

Buchheim (C. A.): Legend of slain warriors, 159, 187; the rejuvenating elixir, 156

Buchheim (Emma S.): Pied piper of Hamelin, 206-209

Bucks, local proverb, 221

Bumby (Mother), a cunning woman, 357

Burial-custom, gipsy, 222; customs (Greek), 168-171; customs (Ireland), 212; not permitted in St. Flannings church, 261; superstition, 350

Burmese ordeals, 89-90

Burne (Charlotte S.): Threading the needle at Ripon cathedral, 253, 286; two folk-tales told by a Herefordshire squire, 20-23; variant of the three noodles, 40-43

Butcher, trade legend about, 322-326

Butter, charm for, 34

Butterfly, residence of soul in, 213


Cake, broken over bride's head, 144

Cakes, funeral (Greek), 170

Camels'-hair charm, 45

Candle, burning of, omen, 25

Candlemas-day custom at the Temple, 317

Candles, ordeal by, 89

Carpenter, trade legend about, 322-326

Cat, game of (Ireland), 264

Cat, used for raising the wind, 260; omens from killing of, 379; fisher-omens, 379

Cats, folk-lore of, 230

Cats, king of the, folk-tale, 22-23

Cattle affected by witchcraft, 288; driven round fires, 140

Celts, stone, superstitions concerning, 260

Changeling, fairy, 91, 190, 257

Chaplets, plants for, 143

Charms, 158; Cornwall, 31; Hungarian, 104; Irish, 33-34; Roumanian, 94, 219; Turcoman, 43

Chelsea, May Queen, 191

Chester-le-Street, football at, 124

Chickweed in Drayton's plant-lore, 148

Child life, notes of, 244-245

Chinese superstitions, 318

Chio, superstition at, 222

Christmas-day proverb, 279

Christmas-eve household custom, 331

Christmas play in Sussex, 1-8

Churning superstitions, 259

Cinderella incident in Greek folk-tale, 238

Clan, totemism relic of (Ireland), 259

Clem of the Clough legend in Drayton, 114

Clement (St.), the blacksmiths' patron, 323-326

Cliffs, white, of England, 23

Clodd (Edward): Philosophy of Punchkin, 289-303

Clothes, omens from (America), 24

Clouston (W. A.): Book of Sindibad reviewed, 351-352

Cockatrice, Drayton's conception of, 269

Coelho (F. A.), Jogos e Rimas reviewed, 320

Collection of folk-lore, 289-290

Colour in folk-lore (Arab), 187

Columbkill (St.), tradition of, 140-141

Common, game so called, 139-140

Conder (Captain C. R.): Heth and Moab quoted, 187

Confirmation folk-lore, 348

Connemara folk-lore, 257-266

Convulsions caused by evil spirits, 97

Coote (H. C.): Children's games in Sicily, 82-88; folk-lore in modern Greece, 235-243

Copper coin nailed to boat-keel, 351

Corea, superstition in, 214

Corn, custom with, 23

Cornwall, charms for toothache, 94; folk-lore, lectures on, 31; "Jan Dark" in, 381; folk-tale from, 19-20

Costume of mummers, 2

Countings out, 190

Courtney (M.A.) : Jan Dark, 380-381

Couvade in Yorkshire, 121

Cow, bewitching of, 379; legend of a fairy, 262; omen from, 24

Cradle, rocking empty (America), 24

Cretans, beliefs of the, 237

Cricket, superstition concerning (Ireland), 261

Cricket, Greek game resembling, 59

Crombie (J. W.): A curious superstition, 172-173; tabulation of folk-tales, 155, 214-215, 249-252, 281-284