Index.
499
Gadarene swine : belief about, Fife- shire, 97 Gades : Heracles as sun god, 422 Gaelic a descendant of Pictish, 234 Galatia : Zeus the thunderer, 266,
273 ; Zeus triad, 291 Galaxium : Apollo named from, 410 Games : Greek, origin of, 390-414 ;
Guernsey, 120 Ganan-kadus, see Ganans Ganans : Shwe-hmu or taxgatherer,
customs about, 334-5 Ganymedes, rape of, 389 Gargol, King, see King Gargol Gaul, see France
Gaster, M. : notes on Some Jewish Folklore from Jerusalem, 192-4 ; review by, — Nuttall's The Funda- mental Principles of Old and New World Civilisations ^ 1 17-9 Ga-u or charm box, Tibet, 95 Gazelle : in folktale, Somalis, 320 ; skull used as medicine bottle, E. Central Africa, 72 Gellert type of folktale, 52-5, 61,
62-3 Gellyole : harvest custom, 195 Gensan, see Charyong Pass Georgia : animal sacrifices, 438 Gerhajis and Arab, Somali folktale,
325
Germany : ancient Germans, god of, 264 ; omens from ears, 462
Geryones, myth of, 284
Ghosts : in animal shape, Jamaica, 90-1, 94, 211, 452, Monmouth- shire, 83-4 ; Basutos, 245-6 ; bed &c. prepared for, Jamaica, 212 : blood drunk or burnt to hinder, Jamaica, 88, 206 ; charms against, Jamaica, 89, 207, 456 ; can only count to three, Jamaica, 214 ; come to house, if thread of dead clothes knotted, Jamaica, 89, unless corpse carried feet first, Torres Straits, 357 ; cracking in wood due to, Jamaica, 206 ; Guernsey, 120 ; can do many things like living, Jamaica, 90 ; destroyed by knife, Kerry, 338 ; dog howls when sees, Jamaica, 206 ; follow bidder of "good-bye" at wake, Jamaica, 209 ; first coffin shaving &c. pro- tects from, Jamaica, 88 ; follow those who meet corpse at funeral, Jamaica, 89 ; haunt finder who does not bury corpse on shore. Guernsey,
123 ; haunt site of cannibal feast, Basutos, 245; injure if spoken of when seen, Jamaica, 208 ; laugh at firestick, Jamaica, 208; Monmouth- shire, 83-5 ; omen of presence of, Jamaica, 208, 211 ; offering to on cutting down trees, Jamaica, 209 ; passage must be left for ghosts, Jamaica, 211 ; pass threshold at midnight, Jamaica, 208; Pembroke- shire, 196; prevented from follow- ing by casting broken bush behind, Jamaica, 89 ; pro'ectives against, Jamaica, 90, 206-S, 214 ; must be struck first with left hand, Jamaica, 94 ; provoked by spitting &c. through window at night, Jamaica, 209, 213 ; punch thrown out to, at Christmas. Jamaica, 214 ; ride one who has killed them, Jamaica, 87-8; cannot rise if peas planted on grave, Jamaica, 208 ; seen by child born with caul, Jamaica, 210, 452 ; seen on coffin if looked at under crutches, Jamaica, 89, 208, 212 ; sight of not immediately told, Jamaica, 456 ; test for, Jamaica, 208 ; vanishes at name of Christ, but not of God, Jamaica, 90 ; visit or haunt those who wash back of corpse, Jamaica, 89, 452 ; walks backward or by spinning, Jamaica, 90 ; water from dog's eye enables to see, Jamaica, 208
Giants : Abergavenny, 349 ; Mold, 23 ; Monmouthshire, 349
Girls, see Women
Girl without Legs, The, Somali folk- tale, 319-21
Glamorgan : relative nigrescence in,
234
Glass : new moon not seen through, Jerusalem, 187
Gnanji tribe : 466 ; mother-right, 472-3 ; women not reincarnated, 467
Goat : baby fed by, Basutos, 251 ; blood and flesh in charm against duppy, Jamaica, 206 ; in folktale, Nyassaland, 346 ; paid for cures, E. Central Africa, 72 ; skin on medicine bottles, E. Central Africa, 72, and used for written charm, E. Central Africa, 73
Goblins : Guernsey, 120
Gods, see Creator, beliefs about ; Deity, conceptions of; and under names of gods, suck as Zeus
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