Index.
501
82, 297, 412, 421 ; poplar sacred to, 421
Hagno, spring on Mt. Lycoeus, in rain charm, 312
Hair : omens from, Jamaica, 454 ; served in pudding as love charm, Jerusalem, 187 ; in sympathetic magic, Sicily, 128 ; unlucky to comb at night, Jamaica, 209, or throw about, Jamaica, 211
Hair ornaments, Tibet, 243
Hakan, son of king Liloa, 217
Halaesus, death of, 383-4
Halcyon : myth of Alcyone, 300
Halicarnassus : inscription at, 279 ; Zeus in coins of, 273, 296
Hallow Eve : charm to see future husband, Ireland, 461
Hamakua, in Hawaii folktale, 217
Hammer, in charm necklace, Yemen Jews, 191 {plate)
Hand : as amulet against evil eye, Egypt and Jerusalem, 189-90 {plates), 194; omens from, Jamaica, 93, 209, 213, 451, 454; spots in shape of hand mark cannibal, Basutos, 246
Handkerchief, see Pockethandkerchief
Hand of Might, 1S9-90
Hare : in folktale, 219 ; leg in boat for luck, Fifeshire, 97 ; witch in shape of, Guernsey, 123, Mon- mouthshire, 80 ; word unlucky at sea, Fifeshire, 96
Harmonia, wife of Cadmus, 411
Harpoot : folklore from, 428 ; foun- dation sacrifice, 441-2 ; rag-tree and cairn, 445 ; rain doll, 432, 435 ; rain festival, annual, 429
Harris island : crystal ball in silver bands, 130
Harris, J. R., Notes from Armenia, in Illustration of The Golden Bough, 427-46
Harston : corn baby, 2, 185 [plate)
Hartland, E. S.: note to Specimens of Somali Tales, 325-6 ; A Votive Offering from Korea, 447-50 ; re- views by, — Durkheim's L'Anjit'e Sociologiqtie, 359-65 ; Sebillot's Le Folk-Lore de France, 475-6 ; Spen- cer and Gillen's The Northern Tribes of Central Australia,
465-74 Harvest customs and beliefs : [see also Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and the like ; and Seaweed) ; England,
194-6, 198, 434, 464, 478 : France, 434 ; Germany, 434 ; Scotland, 434 ; Transylvania, 434 ; Wallachia,
434 .
Hat : hanging hat over rival's gives
success, Jamaica, 207 ; as omen,
Jamaica, 93, 206, 213, 451-2 Haunted houses: how to free, Jamaica,
207 ; Monmouthshire, 84 Haunted sites : of cannibal feasts,
Basutos, 245 Havelok the Dane, The Lay of, 202 Hawaii : story of Umi, 216-7 Hawk : in folktale, Upper Congo,
330
Hawyaw : Shwe-hmu or tax-gatherer, customs about, 334-5
Hazel-nut: in "New Year's Gifts," Monmouthshire, 86
Head : canying load on in house un- lucky, Jamaica, 207
Head-hunting, Borneo, 361
Headless ghosts : Pembrokeshire, 196
Hearth : Hestia personifies, 311 ; intimately connected with king, Pelasgians, 310-1, and Zeus, 310-1
Heather,. P. J., exhibit, 2
Heart : king's, eaten by successor, Yorubaland, 98 ; white man's, in charm, Basutos, 246
Hebrews, see Jews
Hebrides : {see also Harris) ; folklore resembling that of Jews, 186-7 \ folktales, 35-9, 62-3
Hecate, the triple form of, 290
Heel marks : in Skyrrid mountain, 86 ; knife stuck in to settle witch, Monmouthshire, 80
Heifer, see Cow
Helen of Troy, story of, 299, 425
Heliades, myth of, 421-2
Helicon, Mount : laurels for festival, 409 ; mountain of willow woods, 299 ; oaks and oak-nymphs, 299 ; Zeus named after, 299
Helios : golden cup of, lent to Heracles, 422 ; statue, Megalopolis, 422 ; sun god and prophet, 274-5, 305, 401
Helle, myth of, 271, 392-3
Hellespont, myth of the, 271, 393
Hen : black, in charm against barren- ness, E. Central Africa, 73, in love spell, Sicily, 128 ; crowing, should be killed, Jamaica, 207 ; in charm necklace, Yemen Jews, 191 {plate);
