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Somersetshire, overlooking in, 191

Sompting (Sussex), version of mumming play from, 7

Song, blacksmiths', 324-325; on Candlemass-day at the Temple, 317

Sorrel in Drayton's plant-lore, 148

Soul dwelling apart from the body, 302

Souls, transmigration of (Ireland), 213

Spain, folk-lore in, 127

Spider, used to stop nose bleeding, 219

Spittal, custom at child-birth, 257; used to avert evil eye, 219; used in folk-medicine, 102, 103; proverbs connected with, 280

Staffordshire, dream superstition in, 350; folk-tale, 40-43

Stars, counting of, cause wens, 97; notions of, in Drayton, 365-367

Steel, evil cannot pass, 380

Stitch, cure for, 379

Stone circles, game of (Ireland), 264; impressions on, 141, 263

Stones, legends about (Ireland), 259, 263; pile of, raised to obtain wind, 260; thrown into sea before bathing, 356; legends of the Rollrich, 151

Stork, folk-lore of, 233

Stranger in house (America), 24

Sty, remedy for, 120

Suicide, superstition concerning, 121

Sunningwell, Shrove Tuesday custom at, 222

Sunstroke in folk-medicine, 103 104

Sussex, blacksmiths' lore, 321-328; laying a ghost in, 253; tipteerers' play, 1-8

Swan maidens, folk-tale incident, 12

Syrian folk-lore, 187

Székely folk-medicine, 97-105


Tabulation of folk-tales, 152-155, 183-186, 214-217, 249-252, 281-284

Tailor, trade legend about, 322-326

Tasks (three), folk-tale incident, 13, 46-48, 165; Malagasy, 129

Teeth, casting of, by children (America), 24; omen from position of (America), 24

Teething charm, 219

Temple (R. C): Burmese ordeals, 89-90; on proverbs, 26; Panjab Notes and Queries reviewed, 27

Terminology of folk-lore, 285-286, 311-316, 340-348

Thousand and One Nights, tale from, 298

Threading the needle at Ripon cathedral, 253, 286

Threshold, charms at the, 104; customs at the, 330, 331; treading on (Syria), 187

Thump, Lancashire name for wakes, 25

Thyme in flower-lore, 119

Tipteerers' play (Sussex), 1-8

Toads, notion concerning, 120

Toothache, charms for, 31, 33, 94; cure for, 380; omen of, 24

Totemism, relic of (Ireland), 259

Trade legends, 322-326

Tradition, accuracy of, 141-142

Transmigration, Drayton's stories about, 364; of souls (Ireland), 213

Tree sprites, worship of (India), 334-336

Turcoman folk-lore, 43-45

Turquoise, folk-lore of, 227

Tutsan in Drayton's plant-lore, 146


Unexpected (Prince), a Polish tale, 9-18


Valerian in Drayton's plant-lore, 148

Vernaleken (Theodor): In the Land of Marvels reviewed, 255

Vervain in Drayton's plant-lore, 147

Vicarial sacrifice in folk-medicine, 104-105


Wake (C. Staniland): Folk-lore terminology, 345-346; Irish games of ball, 319

Wakes, Yorkshire name for, 25

Wales, St. Winifred's well, tradition, 150

Warts, charm for, 31

Warwickshire folk-lore, 187-188

Wassal, song on New Year's day, 25

Water, charms for fairies, 92; ordeal, 89; pouring out, used in folk-medicine, 102; superstition, 171-172, 220; worship, 149-151; horse (Irish), 61-62; king, folk-tale incident, 10

Waters, local medicinal, in folk-medicine, 100

Weardale, Durham, notes from, 120

Weather-lore, 331; Derbyshire, 278-279; from Drayton, 276

Well worship, 211, 213; Ireland, 138, 140, 260

Wells, of St. Winifred, 149-150; in Scotland, 173-175; superstition (Wales), 349

Welsh folk-lore, 349