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Roumania, Customs connected with Death and Burial, 89 et seqq.; Gipsies in, 122 et seq.


Sacrifice: communal, 307
Sailor's saying about people who do not know of oars, 316 et seq.
St. Becàn: Cross of, 240
St. Govan: Cell of, 137
St. Sécaire: Black mass of, 67
St. Santiago: evolution of a Patron Saint, 208 et seqq.
St. Senanus: bell of, 77
St. Valentine's Day, 63
Salt: used in ritual, 175
Scallop shell: worn by pilgrims, 224 et seqq.
Scotland: belief regarding Leap Year, 65
Serpent: in a lake in Tipperary, 240
Shakespeare, King Lear, Child Rowland, 78 et seqq.
Shaving of the corpse: Roumania, 92
Sheaf, the last: as a bitch, 131
Sheep, killed at a funeral, 95
Sigyunnae, tribe, the: 105 et seqq.
Smith, Dr. V. A.: The Oxford History of India, review, 245 et seq.
Soul, the: lingering for three days at place of death, 98
Spider, the: tales of, 161 et seq.
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Chinese writer, 41
Stepping over things: effect of, 203
Stones: worship of, 217
Sukhāvati: the Land of the Blest, 46
Swans, belief regarding: in Wales, 157
Swedish folklore, books on: review, 165 et seq.
Sweeping a house, taboo against, 184 et seq.
Switzerland: compulsion of marriage, 67 et seq.
Sydow: Sigurds Strid med Fåvne, review of, 165 et seq.


Taoism, 38
Teeth-cutting, rite at: in Afghanistan, 255
Theogony of Tonga, 234 et seq.
Thunder and lightning: dangerous to children, in Afghanistan, 255
Tipperary: folklore notes from, 239 et seq.
Tomb: noises heard from, 133
Tonga, theogony of, 234 et seqq.
Torii, Études Archéologiques et ethnologiques: Les Aïnou des Iles Kuriles, 320 et seq.
Tradition: literary influences on, 309 et seqq.


Uttara Kuru: the Land of the Blest, 47


Vanaspatī, a tree goddess: in India, 298
Virgin goddesses, 303


Wailers: professional, for the dead, in Afghanistan, 92
Wales: folklore notes from, 156 et seq., 238 et seq.
Wallachia: gipsies in, 106
Washing of the corpse: in Roumania, 92
Water, running: carries articles to the dead, Roumania, 101; used in death rites, Roumania, 101
Wedding, bidding: in Wales, 238; in Afghanistan, 264
Weech, M. W. H.: aids to the study of Ki-Swahili; review, 247 et seq.
Whooping cough, cure for: in Cornwall, 130
Window, opened at death: Roumania, 92


Yetts, Major W. P.: on the Chinese Isles of the Blest, 35 et seqq.


Zigeunre, the, 105


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