Index.
567
Pumpkin : in folk-tale, Africa, 257 Pumpkin vine : seeds in charm,
Congo, 463 Purgatory : in cult of executed
criminals, Sicily, 169-70, 173 ;
amongst Garos, 262 Pyrford Stone, 387-8 Python : worshipped, Assam, 310
Quantock Hills : annual squirrel hunt, 31
Queen Guinevere, 231
Queen Maeve, 181
Queensland, see Moon Creek ; Upper Burnett river
Queensland Corroboree Songs, by R. B. B. Clayton, 86-8
Queen Victoria : wife of John Com- pany, Nagas, 296
Questions : dangerous to answer, 158-9
Quin : banshee, 191 ; fort, danger- ous to destroy, 194
Quoireng N gas, see Maolong
Ra, the god, 149
Rabbi Juda, see Juda
Rabbit : fairy, Clare, 483
Race elements in lore of folk, 379- 84
Races of Man and their Distribu- tion, The, by A. C. Haddon, noticed, 263
Raga island, see Pentecost island
Rag-bushes : Glamorgan, 121
Rain : controlled by nganga, Congo, 468, or salt, Congo, 468 ; given by Thor, Sweden, 76 ; Zeus as god of, 133
Rainbow : sign of nganga' s power, Congo, 468 ; snake coming from well, Africa, 202, 256-7 ; Thor's brow, 78
Rajanpur : folk-medicine, 313-4, 316, 327
Rajputs : charm, Khichi sept, 85 ; marriage custom, 140
Ram, see Sheep
Ramallah : factions, 292 ; wedding attire, 287-8
Ramchandra, 82
Rask, Lake : legend, 188
RasQlpur : folk-medicine, 325
Rat : charm against, India, 506
Rath : place-names, 184
Rathblamaic : banshees, 187 ; carv-
ing, 344 (plate) ; demon badger,
478 Rathfollane : fairies, 195 Ravan the ravisher, 81-2 (plate) Raven : omen from Clare, 190,
484 , ,
Red : in amulet, Essex, 223 ; bead
for divination, Congo, 452 ;
beards of St Olaf and Thor, 74,
76 Reed-buck : in folk-tale, Hausas,
210 Reid, H. M. B. : Scraps of Scottish
Folklore, 91-2 Reincarnation beliefs : Assam, 262,
301 Reindeer : horns in horn dance.
Abbot's Bromley, 26, 29, 39 Relationship : kinship defined, 58-9 ;
terms used, Oceania, 42-5, 53, 58 Religion, evolution of, 516-23,
525-7 Religious Dancing, by M. Peacock,
515
Reptiles in folklore, see Crocodile ; Frog ; Lizard ; Snake ; Tortoise
Reviews, 107-28, 237-64, 388-416, 516-38
Rewari : forecasting well water etc., 83 ; folk-medicine, 83
Rheumatism : amulets against, Suf- folk, 7, Yorks, 227 ; caused by fetish, Congo, 461 ; cures for, India, 84, 314, 316-7, 326-7
Rhodes, see Kameiros
Rhonabwy, story of, 242
Rhymes : England, 37
Rib-bones : cure for displacement of, India, 84
Ribs, pains in : cure for, India, 507
Rice : once grew ready-thrashed, India, 125
Riddles : discussed, 413 ; of Exeter Book, 413 ; Togo, 258-9
Riddles of the Exeter Book, The, by F. Tupper, reviewed, 413
Rigveda hymns, 61
Rings, finger, see Finger-rings
Ringworm : cures for, India, 85, 316, 319
Rinroe : ghostly bull, 480 ; tower,
344 Rio Grande : hair clippings not left
about, 147-8 Ritual, value of discussed, 165-6 Rivers and streams : (see also
Fords ; and under names) ; folk-
