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niatia, 429 ; of sacrifice. 261, 264 ; survivals of tril)al contests, 20-1
Gardening prosperous in Holy Week, Dorset, 112.
Garlands, May Day, 210
Gaster, M., Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Child-stealing Witch, 129-62 ; reviews by, Rosen- feld's DerMidrasch DeiUeronoinium Rabba. Par. IX. tend XL, 2-10, ueberden Tod Moses, 200-1; Strick- land's Segnius Irritant, or Eight Primitive Folklore Stories ; North- West Slav Legends and Fairy Stories ; and South-Slavonic Folk- lore Stories ; and Brun's La Veillee, Douse Contes Traduits du Koionain, 313-4
Gauts, Woden as patron of, 86-7
Geat, ancestor of English royal houses, 295
Gellert (Llewellyn's hound), locali- sation of legend at Bedd Gelert, 423-4
Gelu or Geloo, Greek child-stealing spirit, 143, 146-8
Geos, in Syriac charm, 151
German Bibliographies of Folklore, 464
Germany : (^see also Bavaria ; Bran- denburg ; Elsass ; Harz Mountains ; Heligoland ; Hesse ; Hessen- Nassau ; Holstein ; Lippe ;
Munsterland ; Neumark ; Olden- burg ; Pomerania ; Prussia ; Saxony ; Schleswig ; Silesia ; Swabia ; Thuringia ; Waldeck ; Westphalia ; and Wurtemberg) ; Ancient Teutonic Priesthood, The, by H. M. Chadwick, 268-300 ; animal forms of souls, 235, 345, of witches, 235 ; animals' heads as gable ornaments {ill.), 322-3 ; animals transformed human beings, 236 ; black ox respected, 241 ; cockchafer respected locally, 239 ; crossbill kept captive, to attract diseases, 244 ; mice a funeral presage, 345 ; pig pursued blindfold with sticks, 252 ; sheep sacrificed, 254 ; songbirds tabooed locally, 243 ; souls of dead as mice, 345 ; South, hawk encouraged to nest on house, to protect, 244 ; ladybird as child-bringer, 235 ; sheep sacrificed, 254
Ghiana, see Avezuha
Ghosts, Bedd Gelert, 424 ; Buddhist
(modern), blue, 28 ; Cairo, 389 ;
Wiltshire, 347 Ghul distinguishes Egyptian tales of
negro origin, 356 Giants, Korean beliefs about, 327 ; in
mythology of Thompson Indians,
British Columbia, 398 ; in pageants,
105; no traditions of, Wiltshire, 347 Ginna or spirits, appear as bright
light, Cairo, 388 ; bachelors thought
married to, Cairo, 388 Girnar (Kathiawar), miracle of
Krishna at, 10 Glacier, human sacrifice to stay,
Alaska, 171 Glamorganshire, see Merthyr Tydvil. Gloucestershire, see Dursley ; and
Painswick Glowworm, taken for luck, June 24th,
Belgium, 255 ; threatened with
beating, Italy, 254 Gluviana, see Avezuha Goat, carried in procession, 258;
eaten ceremonially, 259 ; human
being as, 236; hunted ceremonially,
India, 20 ; presence distinguishes
Egyptian tales of European origin,
356; sacrificed, Jliterbock, 253;
thrown from edifice, locally, 257 Goat's hair, child-stealing spirit
changes into, 144 Goatsucker, form of soul, 235 Goblins, Bedd Gelert, 424 ; Bernese
Oberland, 202; Jack o' th' Lantern,
Devon, 212 Godi, Danish, 280-1 ; Icelandic,
277-8, 284 ; Norwegian, 279 God, use of term by Malagasy, 169 ;
by Masai, 169 Gokarna, black pagoda at, 33 Gold Coast, white man's god black,
31 Gomme, G. L., Obituary of Lieut. -
Gen. Pitt-Rivers, 185-7 Good Friday. Dorset beliefs, 112;
magpie killed, Erfurt, 256 ; in
Syriac charm, 151 Goose, eaten ceremonially, 259 ;
feathers not used in beds, 243 ;
respected in S. England, 242 ;
sacrificed locally, 253 ; tabooed.
Great Crosby, 243 Gopala, title of Krishna, 6 Gorgon, The, Greek folktale, 340-4 Gorgona, island near Leghorn, origin
of name, 340
