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531
Saint Mark's Eve, time to watch the
church-porch, 333 Michael (j-^^ also Michael, Arch- angel), altar on the tower of St.
Gall, 359 iNlichaeTs church, Glastonbury
Tor, 359 ■ Mounts, Cornwall and
France, 359 Nicola, church of, Girgenti,
procession from, 253 Peter's church, Ambleteuse,
sacred spring and horsehoof print
at, Norwegian parallel, 460
Stephen, 169
Saints and holy persons, in India,
393, lavishncss of, 407, miracles
worked by, 397, invocation of 405 ;
prophetic powers of, 410 Samos, modes of averting Evil Eye
in, 181 Santa Maria delle Grazie, Girgenti,
festival at, 253 Saka, Rajput custom of, 442 Sakaki, tree, Japan, 306 Sakhi Sawar, raiser of the dead,
India, 401 Salisbury, Hobby Horse at, 186 Salmon, 202 Salmon-trout, ib Sammas, see Sampo Sampo myth, Finland, 106, 107 Sampsa Pellervoinen, 107 Sanctuary in Indian folklore and
custom, 440-1 Sandal-tree, talking, Indian folk-tale,
417
Sargon and his ark, parallels, 300
Satan, {see also Devil), 469, in a Mohammedan book of wonders, 230
Sali, custotn of, India, 412
Saturday, old German birth-augiiry for, 116 ; day for using love philtres, 169 ; forbidden to comb hair on, Greek lay, 183 ; unlucky and lucky things to do on, Hebrides, 268 ; vampires do not rise on, 173
Savage conceptions of religion, 2, et sqq ; natural characteristics of, 10
Savings invested in gold ornaments, Portugal, 457
Scandinavia, favourable field for folk- lore research, 80
Scandinavian folklore, {see Eddie Poems) ; Illustrations of the Tra-
ditionzl Beliefs of the Northern Peoples, by W. A. Craigie, re- viewed by F. Y. Powell, 459
Scavengers, Indian, and their saint, 405. 438
Scar, fish, bone of used in divination, 182
Scarlet silk, new, in charm rope, 487
Scorpion, in Indian folklore, 440
Scotland, folklore of, {see Place Names in Glengarry, and Powers of Evil in the Hebrides), animal sacrifices in, 353
Sea, purification in, Japanese myth, 301 ; more blessed than the land, Hebrides, 260-1 ; Old Man of, and his daughter, Japanese myth, 311 ; spells and curses cast into, 160- 1 ; talismans for causing rise and fall of, 312
Sea-bogies, Scandinavian folklore, 460
Seal-man, the, cannibal turned into a seal, 215
Seals the bodies of self-drowned per- sons, Scandinavia, 460
Season and nature myths, absence of in early Japanese myth, 323
Second sight, Greek Isles, 154, of Indian v/itches, 424
Secret Societies of Africa, 226
Sedit and the two brothers Plus, American Indian tale, 344
Self-sacrifice, mutilation etc., to gain aid from the Powers, India, 407
Semitic Infiicences in Hellenic Mytho- logy, with special reference to the works of Rt. Hon. Prof. Max Muller, and Mr. Andrew Lang, by R. Brown Junr., reviewed by W. Crooke, 339
- ' Sendings " of animals and of raised
corpses, Ireland, 460
September I, 179, 180-I
Serpents, affected by music, India, 415 ; daughter of, magic of, ib., 402 ; form of llobamock, 21 ; eight- headed, of Koshi slain by Susa no wo, 30S ; grateful, 416 ; of lakes and rivers, 460 ; lizard and serpent version of the Potiphar story, 416 ; powers of, 414-5 ; serpent-women or Nagnis, 424
Seven sleepers, name for hybernaling creatures, Wexford, 364
Seventh Son, touching for disease by, 475
