INDEX.
Aaker : tale of /^^//a'rt'-folk, 326-7 Aargau : mountain dairies, beliefs
about, 324 Abberley : wishing well, 347 Aberdeenshire : amulets, 231-2 Acacia-tree : leaves, as Easter-egg patterns, Roumanians, 301 {plate), in folk-songs, Roumanians, 301 Accounts of Folk-Lore Society, 10- 1 Acer campestre : leaf as Easter-egg
pattern, Roumanians, 303 {plate) Adam : as Easter-egg pattern, Rou- manians, 302 ; in tradition, Ireland,
359 Adamnan, St., see St Adamnan Addy, S. O. : Scraps of English
Folklore, 348-9 Adelfot, in Arthur romances, 288-92,
^schylus : account of primitive man by, 106, 421-2, 428, 431
Africa : {see also Algeria ; Amazulu ; Bantu ; Ba Ronga ; Basutos ; Ber- bers ; Bondei ; Bushmen ; Chewa ; Chinyanja ; Chipeta ; Congo Beige ; Dahomey ; Delagoa Bay ; Duala ; Egypt; Ewe; Hausa; Hottentots; Kabinda ; Kaffirs; Kilwa; Kinga; Lake Nyassa ; Lake Tanganyika ; Lamu ; Lindi ; Luanda ; Mapoch ; Mombasa ; Morocco ; Nandi ; Ni- geria ; Nyanja ; Nyanwezi ; Nyassa- land ; Pata island ; Sania ; Sech- wana; Shambala; Shangani; Shenzi; Sierra Leone ; Socotra ; Subiya ; Swahili ; Swazi ; Tanga ; Taveta ; Tete ; Transvaal ; Tunis ; Veys ; Wanyoro ; Yao ; Zambesi river ; and Zanzibar) ; head of ndeiiibo society. Lower Congo, 190 ; west, Egbo society, 104
Afi-ican Life and Customs, by E. W. Blyden, noticed, 128
Age gives supernatural power and life, China, 519
Agravaine, in Arthur romances, 281, 284-6
Agricultural folklore : {see also Corn ; Firstfruits ; Harvest customs and beliefs ; and Planting customs and
beliefs); " trieteric " rite, Assam,
139
At plant : magical, Assam, 403-4
Aijal : in folk-tale, 401
Aimols : folk-tales, 389-90, 419
Alaska : {see also Eskimo) ; folk-tales, 378
Albany (W. Aus.) : folklore, 340-2
Albino : hair in medicine bundle, Lower Congo, 43
Alder-tree : in wart cure, Wilts, 80
Algeria, see Algiers
Algiers : augury and leechcraft, 208-9
All-Father belief, see Deity, concep- tions of
All Fools' Day : Westmoreland, 223
Alsace, see Elsass
Amazons : the beardless Scythians, 104
Amazulu: firstfruit custom, 436; folk- tale, 440-1 ; hyaena hermaphrodite, 247 ; ogre, 448
America, see North America
Amulets and talismans, 1-3, 7, 64-5, 70-1 {plate), 74, 131, 227-8, 231-2, 320, 323, 348, 379, 384-5, 450-6,
488-9> 513
Amulets from Costers' Barrows in London, Rome, and Naples, by E. Lovett, I, 7, 70-1 {plate)
Anals : folk-tales, 391-2, 394-5, 417-8
Ancestors : births caused by, Austra- lia, 126 ; bones &c. carried in pro- cession, Assam, 415 ; dog as ances- tor, Eskimo, 377 ; giant, Assam, 398 ; no legends, Lower Congo, 58 ; in myths, Andamans, 26 1 -2, 267, 495 ; reborn, Australia, 126 ; snake, Manipur, 419
Ancient Tales and Folk-lore of Japan, by R. G. Smith, reviewed, 249-52
Andaman islands : moon male, 377 ; The Religion of the Andaman Islanders, by A. R. Brown, 130, 257-71, 492-7
Andrews, J. B. : Obituary, by G. L. Gomme, 500
Aneurin, poems of, 113
Angamis : mankind emerges from cave, 417
