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Secretary, election of, 4
Sehwan : shrine at, 262
Seine, Dept. of, see Paris
Selangor : {see also Langat) ; super- natural powers from possession by the Pontianak, 1 35-6
Seligmann, C. G., The Collection of Folklore, 310-2
Selkirkshire : ballad of Auld Mait- land, 192-7
Sempringham : St. Gilbert, 217
Sendings, magic, among Malays. 137; 146-52, 157
September, see Michaelmas
Serpent, see Snake
Serpent Child type of folktales, 79-83
Seven : birds, omen of burying, St. Briavel's, 171 ; in charm after 'trikhal' birth, Punjab, 65, Roh- lak, 67 ; in charm to avert cattle disease, N. India, 1S9 : in Jewish marriage, 238 ; in Kanjari marriage, 243 ; lime-fruits, soul abducted into, Malays, 155 ; palm-leaf ribs in divination, Penang, 143 ; seven- stranded cord in divination, Pe- nang, 143 ; seventh son of seventh son, St. Briavel's, 172 ; sister spirits in palm-blossom dance, Se- langor, 137-40 ; soul seven-fold, Malays, 163-4
Sex totems, see Totemism
Seyler, C. A., The Beowulf Legend, 3
Sha' ambah Arabs : " song of the sands " is talk of genii, 286
Shaftesbury : St. Ed wold, 216
Shamrock : four-leaved, brings luck, Hebrides, 53
Shape-shifting ; in Indian folktale, 80-1 : by witch, Berkshire, 424-6, Kirklington, 289, Newnham Mur- ren, 289-90, St. Briavel's, 175
Shedad, palace of : parallel legend, Touaregs, 284-5
Sheep : bones not burned, Hebrides, 35 ; divination from shoulder- blade, Afghans and Hebrides, 50-1, Baloches, 264, from throwing up "duilleag" from, Hebrides, 52; in dream, as sign, Hebrides, 51 ; dung as remedy, Lochlomond and Pulverbatch, 75, and used for cast- ing lots, Baloches, 264 ; " eaters of old ewes," village sobriquet, Ava- lon, 384 ; lamb assigned to child with first tooth, Hebrides, 32 ; lamb good omen, Hebrides, 49,
bad omen if seen back first, St, Briavel's, 171 ; shearing, frumity eaten at, Lincolnshire, 92 ; skin applied for typhoid fever, 182 ; skin releases soul of dying, Kennet Valley, 419 Sheepfolds, ghosts laid in, Kennet
Valley, 429 Sheffield : butterfly charm, 432 Shellfish, see Whelk Shell : fossil, sacred, Bozdars, 263 ; ftwitrag lucky and saves wearer from being lost, Hebrides, 37 Sherburn : St. Aldhelm, 214 Shiah Mahomedans : child of tem- porary marriage preferred, 446 Shikarpur : folktales from, 253 Shoe tie : as omen, Hebrides, 50 Shoghrot Fort (Chitral) : banshee, 184 Shrewsbury : cow dung poultice, 74 Shrike : black and white, omens from,
264 Shrines: Balochi, 259-60, 262-3 Shropshire : (^see also Adeney ; But- terey ; Cherrington ; Edgmond ; Ludlow ; Newport ; Peplow ; Pulverbatch ; Shrewsbury ; Tibber- ton ; Wall ; Wellington ; Wen- lock ; and Wrekin) ; cow dung poultices, 74; 'heaving' custom, Easter, 247, 250 ; village sobri- quets, 386 Shrove Tuesday: "Soft Tuesday"
pancakes, St. Briavel's, 174 Sibi : in Balochi heroic ballad, 255,
and love song, 270 Sibops: beliefs about future life, 436-7 Sickle : water trickling over as cure,
Hebrides, 57 Siebert, Rev. O., notes to Some Native Legends from Central Australia, 406, 408-9, 41 1-2, 414,
Sieve : carrying at night endangers from dead, Hebrides, 30-1 : in charm after ' trikhal ' birth, Rohtak, 67 ; on head stunts growth, Hebrides, 30 ; used to divine thief, Malays, 145, 155
Signs or omens, sec Omens
Silkworm : evil spirit ' sent ' in forn: of, Malays, 147
Silver : in dream, Hebrides, 51
Sin of Witchcraft, The, by A. Pulling, reviewed, 448
Sindh : (^see also Jacobabad ; and- Sehwan) ; Balochi folklore, 252-74
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