Index.
481
Rice, sacrificial, Malays, 137-8, 145,
Rice harvest customs and beliefs : Ceylon, 77-9 ; Malays, 159-63
Rice Harvest and other Customs in Ceylon, by R. J. Drummond, 77-9> 277-8
Rice spoon : dancing, Malays, 142-3, 164 ; defence against evil, Malays, 164
Rice-throwing at weddings, 237
Riddles : Kennet Valley, 421
Rievaux : St. Ailred, 217
Right foot first : by newly-married at threshold, 241
Rinds, Balochi tribe, 254-5, 257, 259, 274
Ring swung to divine thief, Malays, 144, 156-7
Ringworm classed with leprosy by Hebrews, 218
Ripon ; ' lifting ' custom, 250
Rivers and streams {see also under names) ; Madu Sami, river god, Ceylon, 77 ; possession flowing down river brings owner prosperity, Ceylon, 78 ; water taken annually at sunrise for temples, Kandy, TJ-2)
Rivers, W. H. R., The Sister's Son in Samoa, 199
Road gods : Madu Sami, Ceylon,
77
Rochester : St. Ithamar, 214
Roe-deer, see Deer
Rohtak : name of son born after three girls, 66 ; rites on such birth, 67
Rollright Stones : difficult to count, 293 ; go down hill to drink, 292 ; legend of, 292 ; marriage oracles, 235 ; had to be returned, if re- moved, 293 ; unlucky to injure, 293 ; witchcraft near, 290
Romans, ancient : bride entered hus- band's familia, 208 ; influence on English village system, 98-9 ; Lupercalia, 25
Romsey Abbey : collection of saints' lives, 214
Rook : as village sobriquet, 386
Rope of straw in charm to avert cattle disease, N. India, 189
Roscoe, J., The Collection of Folk- lore, 312-3
Rose, H. A., Unlucky and Lucky Children, and some Birth Super- stitions, 278-80 ; Unlucky Chidren, 3, 63-8, 197-8 ; Yew, 201
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Rosemary : flowers on Christmas Eve, St. Briavel's, 174 ; grows well where mistress is master, St. Bria- vel's, 174
Rose-rash, cure for, Hebrides, 56
Rose-tree : wild, gall from frees from toothache, St. Briavel's, 173
Ross-shire, see Gairloch
Rothbury : bride &c. jumped over "petting stone," 227-8, and black- mailed by tying church door, 22S, 231
Rouen : St. Mello, 213
Roumania : proverbs, 11 1-2
Rubber, see India-rubber
Rumsey: St. Efleda, 216
Russia, see Esthonia ; and Finland
Sacrament bread, see Host, sacred
Sacred images or stones, see Images, sacred ; and Stones
Sacrifice : after ' trikhal ' birth, Hoshiarpur, 66 ;
animal : — Benin, 440 ; black cock, for epilepsy, Hebrides, 56 ; goat at " long ju-ju," Niger delta, 167-9; goat at shrine of Baloch saints, 263 ; during operation of charm to avert cattle disease, N. India, 190 ; for souls of dead, Japan, 276-7 ; human : — at Beltane, Ilebrides, 41; Benin, 439 ; of firstborn, He- brews, 218, India, 63 ; at "long ju-ju," Niger delta, 168-9; in magical rites, Malays, 137-8, 145, 152 ; to devil, rice harvest, Ceylon, 278; to Hanuman, N.W. India, 188
Sagen ans dem alien Irland, by R. Thurneysen, reviewed, iio-i
Sahara Desert, Myths Current in the, by W. J. H. King, 284-8
Sailors' beliefs and customs, see Sea beliefs and customs
St Albans : Ss. Alban and Amphi- balus, 213
St. Andrew's Day : in saying, Heb- rides, 38
St. Briavel, Cornish king, and hermit, 171
St. Briavel's (Glouc. ) : folklore notes from, 1 14-5, 170-7
St. Brigid : in casting frith, Heb- rides, 47-8 ; in folklore of Heb- rides, 39 ; in Hogmany rhyme, Hebrides, 46
