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INDEX.
Brothers, the two, Irish folk-tale, 185-
187 Buccaboo, Cornish legends of, 364 Buckingham, nursery rhyme in, 196 Bugbears for frightening children, 197,
302 Bulkeley (Warren), on name for brood
of ducks, 124 Burns, curing by charms, Durham, 91 " Bushel " (the). New Year's Day cus- tom called, 192-193 Building superstition, 23-24 Burial at sea, superstition, 363 Burmah, rain customs in, 214 Busk (Miss R. H.), on name for brood of ducks, 124 ; some folk-lore notes, 92-93; peacocks foreboding ill-luck, 227 ; St. Swithin and rain-makers, 267
Cairnbulg (Aberdeenshire), marriage customs in, 119-121
Caledonia (New), rain-maker's customs in, 215
Camel's hair, charm for curing fever, 194
Candles, superstitions connected with, 381
Cattle, sick, cure for in Tiree, 167; witch-spell on, 57 58, 166
Cesaresco (Countess E. M.), on songs for the rite of May, 153-163; on May chafer, 297-298
Changelings, fairy, 56
Charms, 331, 332, 334, 336 ; for chil- dren's complaints, 195 ; used in Dur- ham, 91; Gaelic, 92; Indian, 374-375; Magyar, 359; Persian, 194-195; stone celts as, 191; to remove witchcraft from cows, 57
Cheshire custom, 59; lifting men and women in, 269; wedding custom, 227
Chess, game of, 134-138
Childbirth customs, Magyar, 357
Children, customs and -superstitions connected with, Durham, 91; Greece, 219; Malagasy, 237; Peshawur, 328- 329; Scotland, 120-121 ; Swiss, 380; nursery rhymes of, 90, 384
Chilian fairy tale, 221-226
China, charms used in, 195; marriage custom in, 196
Chinese and Malagasy parallel, 193
Cholera, charm for cure of (India), 374
Christmas customs (Warwickshire), 352
Churning, witchcraft in, 123
Clouston, (W. A.), the Bakhtyar Nama, notice of, 197-198
Ockchafer, verses on (Germany), 188
" Cock Robin is dead," singing game, 385
Colours sacred to rain-gods (Yucatan), 246
Continental folk-lore notes, 380-384
Conundrums (Malagasy), 38-40
Coote (H. C), on a building super- stition, 23-24
Cornwall, custom at birth of first child, 59
Cornish legends, 364, 365
Counting ditties in Malagasy, 105-106
" Counting out " rhymes, 384
Cows, taking milk from by witchcraft, 57-58
Croatia, spring and rain customs in, 156
Crombie, (J. W.), on bugbears for frightening children, 197 ; Scotch riddle, 267 ; some Spanish super- stitions by, 295-296
Crops (growing), ceremonies to propi- tiate the gods for (Yucatan), 245- 247; protecting spirits of, 251
Cross-beam, death-bed must be under, 196
Cuckoo and the swift, unlucky to kill (Hampshire), 394
Chimberland counting-out and game rhymes, 384-387
Dahle (Rev. L.), collections of Mala- gasy folk-lore quoted, 2, 5, 69, 73
Daisies, superstition about, 383
Darmester (James), Essais OrientauXy notice of, 94
Day (Rev. Lai Behari), Folk-tales of JBengal, notice of, 303
Days, lucky and unlucky (Switzerland), 381; (Yucatan), 248
Dead, dirges for the (Malagasy), 69-77
Death omens (Greece), 217, 218; (Magyar), 355; customs; feast for the food of the soul (Yucatan), 248-249
Death-bed superstition, 196
Death light, note on, 395
De la Borderie (A.), Les deux Saints Caradec, notice of, 199
De Jubainville (H. d'Arbois), Intro- duction a V Etude de la Literature Celtique, notice of 199
Derbyshire counting-out and game rhymes, 384-387
Devonshire, superstition in, 333-334
Diseases among cattle, cures for, 331
Divination by the bible (Ludlow), 333, (Persian), 194
