Index.
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St Madron's well : cures children's
diseases, 255, 258 St Maree, 33 St Mourie, see St Maree St Modwen, legend of, 258 St Osyth's well, 258 St Patrick : converts King Laeghaire,
147-S, 446; 'Lorica' hymn as
charm, 348 ; recalls Cuchulainn
from hell, 147-8, 446 ; shamrock
illustration, 225 St Patrick's Purgatory, 164 St Pirian, 265 St Roch, 190 {plate) St Serf or Servanus, 33-4 St Shear, 34 St Stephen's Day : hunting of wren,
Roscommon, 438-9 Sais : night festival at, 222-3 Sakai tribes : 453-4 ; religion, 454 Sakka, see Indra Salii, Roman : in annual scapegoat
ceremony, 434 Salish Indians, see Stlatlumh Indians Salmon : not eaten or approached by
mourners, British Columbia, 487 ;
in folktale, Wales, 448 Salt : averts evil, Palestine, 70 ;
sprinkling infants with, Armenia
&c., 267 Samaritans : {see also Nablus) ; defiled
by touching dead, 75 ; Passover
lamb curative, 75-6 Sammael, jinns descend from, Pales- tine, 71 Samoa : mourning customs, 399, 404,
406-7 Sanchi, carvings at, 13 Sanctuary : Arician tree as, 90-1 ; Bu
Jpri bush. Lower Niger, 90 Sandan, deity of Tarsus, 221-2 Sandon-Hercules of Lydia, 223 Sandur State : feast to rain god, Sept. ,
331-2 Sardanapalus, YJvc\^,see King Sardana-
palus Sardinia : folktale, 193 Sarmad the Armenian, 431-2 Satan, see Devil Savage Childhood: a Study of Kafir
Children, by D. Kidd, reviewed,
343-6 Saxony, see Dresden Scall-crow, see Raven Scandinavia : {see also Denmark ;
Norway ; and Sweden) ; bathing
rite, 264-5 ; folktales, 192 ; funeral
customs, 366-73 ; future life, beliefs about, 366-70
Scania, see Skaane
Scanno : costume of, 189
Scapegoat : camel as, Armenia, 433-4 ; human, Armenia and Rome, 434
Scath, see Scathach
Scathach,-Land of, 143, 148
Schinonte, underground being, Olden- burg, 275
Schleswig-Holstein, see Amrum island
Schwabien, see Swabia
Scissors : laid open on corpse, Scan- dinavia, 366, 368
Scorpion : bite averted by tree gum, Greek islands, 329
Scotland: {see also '?>x\\si\Ti.; Hebrides; Highlands ; Orkney islands ; Shet- land islands ; atid under nafnes of cozinties) ; ballads, 470-2 ; barbar- ous sports, 336-7 ; Borders, opening windows &c. to release soul, 216; as Hades, 140 ; children's wells, 255 ; north-east, opening windows &c. to release soul, 215-6; whistl- ing dangerous in haunted places, 70
Scythe : used by baby-giver, 268
Sea beliefs and customs : {see also Mermaid beliefs ; and Merman beliefs) ; chanties, 358 ; crests of waves the horses of Manannan, 140 ; fish the cattle of the sea, 133 ; gods of sea, Celts, 142 ; meaning of Tethra, 133 ; sea the plain of Tethra, 133; "sea-wife" in German tale,
274-5
Searbhan Lochlannach, 32-4, 47, 52
Secretary, election of, 5
Secret societies : Sierra Leone Pro- tectorate, 362-3, 423-7 {plate)
Secret Societies and Fetishism in Sierra Leone, by A. R. Wright, 423-7 {plates)
Seine Inferieure, see Fescamp
Sejour des Morts, Le, suivant la Mythologie Celtique, by H. d'Arbois de Jubainville, 339-40, and com- ment by A. I\utt, 445-8
Seligmann, Dr. C. G. : Some Notes from New Guinea, 251
Selkirkshire, see Carterhaugh wood
Semang tribes : 453-4 ; funeral rites, 455-6 : religion, 454 ; soul provided for unborn child, 455 ; thunder god,
45.4-5 Seminole Indians: mourning customs, 406