Index.
533
Son, importance of possessing to
Indian people, 392, 393 "Son of God," birth of, Australian
folklore, 53 Songs of the Baronga, 321-2 ■ in divination by water, Cos,
178-9 Sore eyes, cured in St. Austin's Well,
Ccrne, 479 Sorrow, signs of, Indian folklore,
439 Soothsayers, penances for, 152 Sorcerers, North American belief in,
21 Soul crossing bridge after death, 349 ;
inhabiting totem after death, 375,
or animal, 376 of newly dead person, its travels,
121, 123 Southern Sporades, Folklore from, by
W. H. D. Rouse, 150 South Lodge Camp, excavations in,
88, 91 Space-overcoming, Indian folklore,
419
Spain, Basque provinces, silence in munnning ceremonies in, 351 ; con- querors of, 230
Spear, copper-headed magic, 211, 212; magic of Keito, 330
Speech of creatures, Indian folktales, 416, and of things, 417
Spell cast into the sea, 160, shot out of gun, ib. ,
Spinning, when wrong to do, Hebrides, 268, in Styria, 361
— — wheel, band of, removed at times of death, Hebrides, 260 ; blessing of, ib..
Spirits, of the dead in Japanese myths, 321-2 ; Great, and those bound by Solomon, 162 ; guardian, Japanese myth, 309, 320 ; newly dead, long travels of, 121, 123; possession by, Indian folklore, 422;
Spiritualistic seance among native Australian women, 492
Spitting, virtues of, Japanese folklore,
3". 313
Spittle for infant lustration, 229
Split man demon, 171
Sporades, Southern, see Southern Sporades, supra.
" Sqaktktquaclt," or the Benign- faced, the Cannes of the Ntlaka- pamuq, British Columlaa, by C. Hill-Tout, 19s
Staffordshire, the Horn Dance in, 186
Stairway to the sky, American Indian tale, 344-5
Starr, Prof F., address by, on Folk- lore of Mexico, 444, dinner to and presentation to, 445, Mexican objects presented by, 66
Staves in Demon-expelling New Year Ceremony, Japan, 321
Steel, see Iron, and Knife
Stepmother in Indian folktales, 424
Sterility, white bulls sacrificed in ceremonies to cure, 355
Sticks carried in a circle, 154
Stolen things found by means of Holy Bread, 154
Stone, black bound on forehead, to give strength, 179 ; as substitute used by the Little Red Hen, 361
Stones and rocks, the crystal rock of Baiame, 19, 51-2, 55 ; Esthonian legend of boulders, 107 ; in witch- craft, Hebrides, 270
Storm-making to punish thief, 227
Straw effigies of Judas burnt at and near Easter, 178 ; torches of, to scare witches from crops, loi ; worn by Winter in German sham fight, 178
Sturgeon, 202
Styria, folklore of, days forbidden for spinning and washing, 361
Submarine church, near old Con- stantinople, 230
Suffolk folklore {see Bury St. Edmunds), Black Dog, the, of Bungay, 476 ; Cure for Ague, 365
Sufi Ahmad of Jalandhar, open and secret miracles of, 402
Suicide, ceremonial, to injure enemies, Indian folklore, 442 ; by drowning, the origin of seals, 460
Summer and Winter, fights between, Germany, 178
Sun, sex of, 300, 303 ; theft of, 107
Sun-goddess of Japan, 300, 303, 315, 319, 320, and Susa no wo, 304 et S(]q., 318
Sun-worship in Egypt, 231 ; in Indian folklore, 440 ; in Shintoism, 297, of Tartar tribes, ib.
Sun and Moon, creation of, Japanese myth of, 302
Sunday, as birthday, old German augury, 116, rhyme on, 349 ; the second in September, festival on,
