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Index.
Spain and his Queen, chastity test, cited, 130
Thread communicating with Austra- lian heaven, 304, 31 1
Threshold ceremonies in Indian marriages, 152, 153
Thucydides, 1 15
Thunderstorm, Moquis' symbol of, 179
Tiamat, goddess of the "deep," 72 ; modification of, 73
Tide, the (in relation to death), by E. S. Ilartland, 272 ; by M. E. James, 1S9
Tiger-snake totem, Australia, 297
Tigris river, 165
Timanthes and his bow, 132
Timour and the marriages of his grandsons, 104
Tiryns, 113
Tobias, tale of, 242
Tobit, book of, its date, 165
Tobit and Jack the Giant-Killer, by Francis Hindes Groome, 226
Tom Tit Tot, 47
Tombs, terra-cottas, etc., in Rome, 178
Tonga, the Kava cup in, 103
Torch race, Greek, 168
Torosay, Mull, 280
Totems, taboo of, as food, Australia, 326, 327
Totemism, 68, 161, 168, 169, 171, 178 ; in relation to marriage pro- hibitions, 251 ; and to exogamy,
253. 254
Townshend, D., May Day in Lincoln- shire, 276
Transfer of adventures from one hero to another, 266, 347
Transmigration of souls, Druze belief in, 15
Transmission of folktales, 7°
Treasure, hidden, in Syria, 17 ; the Nibelung, in English, by W. P. Ker, 372
Tree-bed, in Greece, 131
Trees, folklore of ; Islessed to secure fertility, 5 : cut down in silence to avoid the Dryad, 342 ; not to be lopped under a waning moon, 18 the olive in the Odyssey, 131 sacred trees, 9, 75, 34, 368, 169 Shrew Ash, the, 330 ; voice of the god in, Australia, 299
Tregeagle, Cornish ghost, his tasks, 370. 371
Tribal custom, religious character of, 316; meetings, India, 108; right to be fed of those attending, 118
Tribes and Casks, the, of the North West Provinces and Oudh, by W. Crooke, reviewed, 167
Trinity, the Egyptian, 164
Trolls, Danish folklore, 213
Trouts bewitching milk, 85
Troy, loi, 117, 175
Troyes, Chretien de, and the Gawain Legend, 265, 267, 270 ; poems of, iSi, 267, 347-349
Truth test, Lebanon, 18
Tum as sun-god, 164
Tundun, Australian divinity, 30S
Turkey, folklore of; Matriarchy in 80 ; Rain-making in, 1S8 ; scene of Barra Widow's Son tale, 235 ; version of the Grateful Dead, tale from, 226
Turkey hen, folklore concerning, 83
Turkoman folklore, rain-controlling stone, 278
Tuttymen and tutty poles at Hock- tide, 282
Uddanpur, idol detained at, 27S Under-sea, King, and his daughter,
270 Unlucky and lucky days, 258, 341 Unmarried men's goods, kinsmen's
rights to, no
Vampires, 233, 256
Varuna, Indian rain-god, 278, 279
Vases, votive, from Lake Chapala,
Mexico, 225 Vedas, not primitive, 98 ; rain-god
of, 278 ; modern representative of,
279 Veil, the bridal, 125, 126 ; power of
Nereid attached to, 342 Venus, the, of Quinipilly, 184 Versions of tales, value of possessing
several, 209, 213 Vienne, magic dresses in, 129 Vikings, influence of, on British folk- lore, 35, 43 Virgin Mary, defeats the devil at
Lincoln, 273, 274 Voidiokoilia, 176
Wafthrudnir, the giant, and Odin's wit contest, 259
Wales, and Welsh folklore; Angle- sea, folklore of, 82 ; Arthurian
