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Index,
Greek islands : (see also Crete ; Ionian islands ; Rhodes ; Santor- ini) ; double axe, 64
Gudbrandsdal : god-image, 73
Guga, the snake god, 85
Guinea-worm : cures for, India, 86, 326
Guitar : omen from, Sicily, 174
Gujranwila : sugar-cane beliefs, 217
Gujrat : folk-medicine, 318, 326-7
Gunpowder : in fetish ceremony, Congo, 468
Gurdaspur : folk-medicine, 314, 318-21, 327
Gurgaon : {see also Rewari) ; folk- medicine, 83-4 ; hereditary heal- ing powers, 83-4
Gurteen Lough : pike, 480
Gwa Kaithel : festival, 79-82 (plate)
Gylfaginning saga, 71-2
Haddon, A. C. : reviews by, — Brown's Melanesians and Poly- nesians, 536-7 ; Seligmann's The Melanesians of British New Guinea, 532-5 ; Converse's Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois, 126-7
Hades : Banks' islands, 51 ; Garos, 262 ; prevention of return from,
Hagia Triada : animal sacrifice,
137 Hail : charms against, India, 85-6, 331-2 ; curb's burial outside parish
brings, Auvergne, 178 Hair, human : in charm, Essex,
223 ; clippings, buried, Hausas,
202, and harmful to others, 147-
8 ; cutting, gennas at, Assam,
307, 310-1 ; dressing, Assam, 302 Hakka Chins : exhibits, g Half-man, in folk-tales, Africa, 215 Halliday, W. R. : The Force of
Initiative in Magical Conflict,
147-67 ; A Spitting Cure, 388 Hallowmas : Wales, 118 Hall Sound : clan badges, 533 Hammer : denotes thunderbolt, 60-
78 (plates) ; of Thor, 60-78
(plates) Hampshire, see Winchester Hand : as amulet, Suffolk, 7 ; on
processional staff, India, 268 ;
washed at ford, 159, or crossing
river, Greeks, 160
Handbook of Folklore, The, 10 Hanuman : in mantras, SirmOr,
504-5
Haranpur : charm against snake- bite, 328-9
Hare : in folk-tales, Africa, 210,
258, 487. 489-9?. 495-6
Harmal : in magic, Panjab, 217
Hartebeeste : in folk-tale, Hausas, 209-10, 487
Hartland, E. S. : The Cult of Exe- cuted Criminals at Palermo, 130, 168-79 (plates) ; exhibits by, 130 ; reviews by, Durkheim's L' Annie Sociologique, vol. xi, 523-4 ; Marett's The Birth of Humility, 523-4 ; Hubert and Mauss' Me- langes d'Histoire des Religions, 523-5 ; Weule's Native Life in East Africa, 122-4
Harvest customs and beliefs : As- sam, 262 ; fetish exhibited, 2 ; Thor and St Olaf granted har- vests, Scandinavia, 75
Hascombe : Christmas greenery burnt, 224 ; cross in turf, 387 ; palm unlucky before Palm Sun- day, 224
Hat : prevents looking up to heaven, Palestine, 282
Hatto legends, 480
Haunted houses : Clare, 343-9
Hausas : beliefs, 201-3 ; folk-tales, 200-15, 260, 351-65, 487-503
Hawk : (see also Fish-hawk) ; cuckoo an immature h., 233 ; in septennial festival, Oxon, 32 ; W"elsh name, 233
Hawthorn-tree : blossom fatal in house, Essex, 224
Head : charm against worms in, India, 325
Headache : amulet against, India, 506 ; charms against, India, 323, 325. 332, St Gall, 445
Head-hunting : Assam, 8, 177, 303 ; Malay Archipelago, 177
Headless ghosts : Clare, 190, 192-4
Heart : as amulet, London, 131, Sicily, 169
Heather, P. J. ; The Future Work of the Folk-Lore Societv, 235- 6
Heaven : N^gas, 300-1
Heavens : god of, Hausas, 202
Hebrews, see Jews
Hebrides : (see also Benbecula) ;