Folk-Lore/Volume 33

by The Folklore Society

FOLK-LORE

A QUARTERLY REVIEW

OF

MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM

BEING

The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society

And Incorporating The Archæological Review and The Folk-Lore Journal

VOL. XXXIII.—1922

Alter et Idem

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY

WILLIAM GLAISHER, LTD., 265 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.

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1922

[LXXXII.]

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW.

CONTENTS

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I.—(March, 1922.)
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Minutes of Meetings: November 16th and December 21st, 1921	1
Minutes of Meetings: January 18th and February 15th, 1922	5
The Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Council	7
Cash Account	11
Presidential Address. Dr. W. H. R. Rivers	14
Asinus in Tegulis. H. J. Rose	34
Myths in the Making. A. M. Hocart	57
Shakespearian Story in Serbian Folklore. Pavle Popović	72
Myths from the Gilbert Islands. Arthur Grimble	91
II.—(June, 1922.)
Minutes of Meetings: March 15th, April 12th and May 17th, 1922	133
Colour Symbolism. Donald A. Mackenzie	136
Some Notes on the Folklore of the Algerian Hills and Desert. M. W. Hilton-Simpson	170
III.—(September, 1922.)
Minutes of Meeting: June 21st, 1922	241
The Folk-Lore of Herbals. Eleanour Sinclair Rohde	243
Tangkhul Folk Tales and Notes on some Festivals of the Hill Tribes South of Assam. J. Shakespear	265
The Origin of Monotheism. A. M. Hocart	282
IV.—(December, 1922.)
Minutes of Meeting: November 22nd, 1922	335
Museums and Raree Shows in Antiquity. E. Douglas Van Buren	337
Notes on the Religious Beliefs of the Eghāp, Central Cameroon. Captain L. W. G. Malcolm	354
Collectanea : —
⁠A Nebraska Folk-Song. Louise Pound	113
⁠Glastonbury and the Grail. Mary A. Berkeley	116
⁠Snake Stones. W. R. Halliday	118
⁠The Indian Antiquary. The Bugata in Piedmont. S. A. Reynolds Ball	119
⁠A Children’s Game and the Lyke Wake. Mary A. Berkeley	121
⁠A Coleshill Ceremony: Folk-Tales from the Panjab. Sir L. W. King	122
⁠Human Sacrifice in India	124
⁠Asinus in Tegulis. H. J. Rose	200
⁠Folk-Lore of the Isle of Skye. Mary Julia MacCulloch	201
⁠A Recent Twin-Murder in S. Africa. J. Rendel Harris	214
⁠Putting out the Broom. Wm. Self. Weeks	294
⁠The Easter Island Figures. H. D. Skinner	296
⁠A Children’s Game and the Lyke Wake. Marguerite Kerr	299
⁠The Origin of St. Valentine’s Day. H. A. Rose	302
⁠Witchcraft in Scotland. Alex. Keiller	303
⁠Two Corician Legends. E. Adams	304
⁠The Use of the Bow among the Naga Tribes of Assam. J. H. Hutton	305
⁠Folk-Lore of the Isle of Skye. Mary Julia MacCulloch	307
⁠The Kern Baby in India. Rev. F. Kilbey	317
⁠Devils in the Alps. The Daily Express	319
⁠Chinese Tomb Jade. W. Perceval Yetts	319
⁠The Dragons’ Teeth; Blood falling on the Ground. Sir G. A. Grierson	380
⁠Folklore of the Isle of Skye. Mary Julia MacCulloch	382
⁠A Study of the Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland. T. J. Westropp	389
⁠Folk Tales from the Nāga Hills of Assam. C. R. Pawsey and J. H. Hutton	397
⁠The Cult of the Door amongst the Miao in South-West China. W. H. Hudspeth	406
Reviews:—
⁠Lewis Richard Farnell. Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality. W. Crooke	125
⁠Ja’far Sharīf. Islam in India, or the Qānūn-i- Islām. T. C. Hodson	126
⁠Émile Nourry. L’Éternuement et le Baillement dans la Magie, L’Ethnographic et le Folk-Lore Médical de P. Saintyves. E. Sidney Hartland	127
⁠Dr. Courtenay Dunn. The Natural History of the Child. C. Jenkinson	129
⁠Margaret Alice Murray. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe. W. R. Halliday	224
⁠J. H. Hutton. The Sema Nagas. A. C. Haddon	230
⁠R. M. Fleming. Ancient Tales from Many Lands. A. Hingston Quiggin	232
⁠Narendra Nath Law. Aspects of Ancient Indian Polity. H. A. Rose	234
⁠E. Westermarck. The History of Human Marriage. W. Crooke	322
⁠J. S. Udal. Dorsetshire Folk-Lore. W. Crooke	325
⁠Cecil Torr. Small Talk at Wreyland	327
⁠Lilian Winstanley. Macbeth, King Lear and Contemporary History	327
⁠R. E. Enthoven. The Tribes and Castes of Bombay. W. Crooke	328
⁠Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society	329
⁠Marcel Granet. La Religion des Chinois. W. Perceval Yetts	411
⁠Sir Baldwin Spencer. Australian Association for the Advancement of Science: Hobart-Melbourne Meeting, January, 1921. E. Sidney Hartland	413
⁠Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. The Old English Herbals. M. Gaster	415
Short Notices:—
⁠The Shepherd of Banbury’s Weather Rules and Some, Rhymes and Songs	129
⁠C. Penswick Smith. The Revival of Mothering Sunday	130
Obituary:—
⁠Mansel Longworth Dames. W. Crooke	131
⁠Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S. E. N. Fallaize	330
⁠C. H. Tawney.	334
Index	422