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Index.
Senecas : initiation, 127 ; Wolf clan,
127 September : (see also Michaelmas Day ; Stealing Night) ; 4th, Mon- day after, horn dance. Abbot's Bromley, 26 ; 7-8th, dances, Naples, 515 Serpent, see Snake Servia : horse pendant, 3 Seven : in charms, Congo, 463, India, 86, 327, 330-1 ; in legend of sunken city, Clare, 485 Sex-totems : Australia, 521 Shahabad : folk-medicine, 327 Shahpur : folk-medicine, 318 Shakespear, J. : Manipur Festival,
79-82 (/)Zaie) Shakespear, Mrs. : exhibits, 9 Shaking Day, Castleton, 38 Shambala : folk-tale, 257 Shamspur Majra : folk-medicine, 325 Shandangan Lake : demon badger,
478-9 ; enchanted, 184 Shannon river : corpse candles, 340 ; ghosts, 345 ; origin of name,
341
Shape-shifting : in folk-tales, Af- rica, 201, Assam, 263, Germany, 157-8 ; from rash imprecations, Scotland, 154; Wales, 118, 120
Shark : fossil teeth as amulets, Whitstable, 7
Sheep : bone as amulet, Whitby, 7 ; in folk-tales, 141, Africa, 200, 352-3. 356-7. 360-1, 497-8, Ar- menia, 366 ; sacrificed, Palestine, 290, 293
Shells in folklore : amulet, Philip- pines, 129 ; as currency, Caro- lines, 536
Shervage Wood : annual hunt, 31
Shetland islands : animals' names, 264
Shoe : mud from as charm, Persia, 163-4 ; omens from, Argyll, 89, Yorks, 226 ; unlucky actions with, Argyll, 89, Yorks, 225
Shooting stars, see Meteors
Shragh : spectre, 340
Shropshire : (see also Edgmond ; Madeley ; Oswestry ; Woolston Well) ; annual barring custom, 31 ; phantom funerals, 119
Sialkot : charms and folk-medicine, 316-7, 321, 328-32
Sicily, see Acireale ; Bagheria ; Ler- cara ; Noto ; Oreto river ; Paler- mo ; Trapani
Sierra Leone : folk-tales, 204, 207,
215, 260 Sieve : in charm, India, 332 Signs and Symbols of Primordial
Man, The, by A. Churchward,
reviewed, 525-7 Sikh Religion, The, by M. A.
Macauliffe, reviewed, 414-6 Silana : folk-medicine, 334 Silver : gift on child's first visit,
Yorks, 225 ; medicine-man's mir- ror, Nias, 2 Simrishamn : rite with St Olaf's
axe, 75 Sindre the smith, 70 Singhbhiim, see Kolhdn Singing games : English, 15-6 Sirens, the, 150 Sirmur Folklore Notes, by H. A.
Rose, 503-7 Sister : of deceased wife in rites,
Congo, 464 ; of father, Oceania,
2, 42-59 Sita, 81
Siva : in charm, India, 86 Skane, see Kivik ; Simrishamn Skeaghvickencrowe : meaning, 184 Skin disease caused by fetish, Con- go. 454 Skogstorp : symbolic axes, 68 Skull : in folk-tale, S. Nigeria, 260 ;
as lime pot, Trobriands, 534 ;
preserved, Marshall Bennetts,
534 Sky : Atnatu lives beyond, Kaitish,
521 ; once near earth, India, 125-
6 ; Zeus as god of, 133 Slave-dealing in folk-tales, Africa,
259
Slavonians, see Perun ; Russia
Sleeping sickness : treatment, Con- go, 464, 468-9
Slieve Carran : supernatural pheno- mena, 339
Slievenaglasha : meaning, 184
Slieve Suidhe an righ : meaning, 185
Slough : funeral flowers unlucky, 223 ; omens, 223
Smaland, see Ryssvik ; Warend
Smallpox : amulets against, Cey- lon, 161
Smith, H. M. : Scraps of English Folklore, 224-5
Smithy, see Blacksmith
Snake : (see also Piists ; Python ; Water-snake) ; amulets against,
