Index.
489
Head : shaved before pilgrimage,
India, 393 Headache : caused by devil, Palestine,
7 1 ; cured by live hen, Greek islands,
329 Heaven and Earth, myth of separation
of, Khasis, 242 Hebrews, see Jews Hebrides, see Falga, island of Helicon : Thespian well cures sterility,
271 Helios: Melkart identified with, 127 Hell : in Celtic legends, 158-60, 162-
3; the harrowing of hell, 147, 149;
Uffern, Wales, 151-2 Hen : cures headache, Greek islands,
329 ; divination by, Palestine, 71 ;
killed for crowing. Sierra Leone,
87 ; sacrificed at girl's birth, Pales- tine, 65 Henbane : in rain charm, Germany,
278 Hera : sacrifice to, Corinth, 19 Hercules : assimilates local deities,
Gaul, 126 ; Sandon-H. of Lydia,
Herefordshire : carol, 359 ; whipping with willow stops growth, 359
Herero : ancestral spirits, 239 ; bath- ing rites, 264 ; mother-right passing away, 245 ; supreme deity, 239 ; word omwise, 238
Hero cults : Todas, 103-4
Heroic Saga-cycle of Dietrich of Bern, The, by F. E. Sandbach, reviewed, 1 18-9
Herring : at riding of Langholm Marches, 336
Hertfordshire : Gerish's The Mayers and their Soig, short notice of, 357
Hesse : (see also Meisner mountain ; a7id Nierstein) ; babies come from wells, 267-8 ; folktale, Oberhesse, 278 ; well custom, 279
Hesus, Gaulish god, 139
Hidden treasure, see Treasure
Highlands : "The Death of Fraoch," 24-6 ; west, folktales, 193
" High places," Palestine, 68
Hills : (see also under names) ; hill- spirits, Todas, 103
Hindu folklore, see India
Hira, cave of: Mohammed spent Ramadan in, 417
Hitopnde9a, The, 16
Hittites: Aryan, 224; bull worshipped, 224 ; Sandon-Herculesof Lydia, 223
Hockey, game of, Palestine, 73
Holla, deity, Germany, 275
Holland : (see also Friesland ; North Brabant : North Holland ; South Holland; aW Zealand) ; water-lily dangerous, 279
Holly-tree : branch of Green Knight,
Holy Grail, see Grail
Holy water : poured on bride, Ireland,
81 Holy wells, see Wells Homeric Folk -Lore, by W. Crooke,
361
Ho-Mundas : memorial stones, 240
Honey, wild : marriage wine from, Gallas, 320
Hopi Indians, see Moqui Indians
Hop-scotch, game of : Palestine, 73
Horns : amulets against evil eye, Italy, 189 ; as fetish signs, Mendi- land, 424, and in fetishes, Imperri country, 425
Horse : amulets for, Palestine, 70 ; in animal cycle, China, 119; in folktales, Ireland, 27, 30-1, 48, Palestine, 57; "withy stick" not applied to, Shropshire, 359
Horse-shoe : mule shoe as amulet against toothache, Italy, 189, as relic of St. Domenico, Italy, 188, and used to touch aching teeth, 188
Hottentots : dead not removed through usual entrance, 373
House : building custom, Davos Platz and Dresden, 84 (plate) ; entrances haunts of evil spirits, Palestine, 58; sacrifice &c. after building, Pales- tine, 58-9,66; sweepings not thrown out at night, Greek islands, 331
Howitt, A. W. : The Native Tribes of South-East Australia, 91-3, 166- 86, 306-18
Hudson's Bay Territory, see Ang- magssalik ; and Eskimo
Hugh of Lincoln, ballad of, 280
Hull, Miss E. : The Development of the Idea of Hades in Celtic Litera- ture, I, 7, 121-65 ; comments by H. d'Arbois de Jubainville, 339-40, and A. Nutt, 445-8 ; review by, — Hyde's The Keligions Songs of Connacht, 347-50
Human Leopard Society, Imperri country, 363, 425 (plate)
Humfiyun, Mughal emperor, 427-8
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