INDEX.
407
Power (D'Arcy): Sleeping north and south, 93 ; a universal panacea, 157- 158 ; Warwickshire folk-lore, 187- 188 Priestcraft in folk-medicine, 101 Property, huming of, at gipsy-burial, 222.; disposal of, folk-tale incident, 76 Proverbs, local, 221 ; merry as a grig, 222 ; on the horse, 107-108 ; Derby- shire, 278-280 ; German, 94 ; In- dian, 26; Scottish, 9, 29, 59-60; Warwickshire, 188 Punchkin, philosophy of, 289-303 Pursuit, obstacles to, folk-tale incident, 15 ; Malagasy, 131
Quinsy, charm for, 94
Rain, superstition, 220
Rats, Irish notion concerning, 259
Raven, cry of, an omen, 25 ; folk-lore
of, 275 ; omen from, 65 Red preventive against enchantment,
102 Red hair of Donegal girls, 63 Red Sea, laying a ghost in, 253 Rejuvenating elixir, 156 Rhyme in folk-tale, 18, 21 Rhymes, nursery (Aberdeen), 59-60 Rhyming custom, 23 Rhyming formulae, 6, 26, 68,73, 74,91,
189, 222, 327 Ripon cathedral, threading the needle
at, 253, 286 River legend, 141 ; superstitions (Greek),
171 Rivers, traditional origin of, 151 Robin, folk-lore of, 266-267 Robin Hood legend in Drayton, 113,
114 Roe, legend of the (Ireland), 141 Rollrich stones, legend of the, 151 Roman Catholic folk-tales, 93 Roman coins called Dwarfes money,
287 Rosemary in flower-lore, 117 Ross-shire, witchcraft in, 288 Roumanian charms, 94; customs, 219 Round (J. H.): On All Hallow E'en
custom, 23 Russell (Isabel): Nursery rhymes and
proverbs, 59-60
Sacrifice, relic of, in Scotland, 332 Sailors' folk-lore, 259; superstitions in
Shetland, 350-351 St. John's eve in Norway, 348-349
St. John's herb in Drayton folk-lore, 148
St. Stephen's day customs, 31
Salamander, Drayton's notions of, 269
Sawyer (Frederick E.): Old Clem cele- brations and blacksmiths'-lore, 321- 328; laying a ghost, 253; Scottish folk-lore, 253-254 ; Sussex " tip- teerers' " play, 1-8; Syrian and Arab folk-lore, 187
Scotland, Fasten E'en ball in, 122 ; folk-lore of the horse, 106-109; holy wells in, 173-175; witchcraft in, 121, 219, 288; see ^' Lanarkshire "
Scottish farming customs, 329-332; fishermen's folk-lore, 350-351, 353- 357; folk-tales, 68-74, 277-278; su- perstition concerning suicide, 121; proverbs, 59-60, 91
Sea, health-giving virtues of, 354-357
Seals, totem superstition concerning, 259
Seal's wedding, a sailor's superstition, 351
Secrecy, necessary in folk-medicine, 99
Sedgcfield, football at, 124
Seven Champions of Christendom, variant of, 1-8
Seventh-son superstition, 31
Sheep, foretell storms, 331
Shetland, superstitions in, 378-380 ; sailors' superstitions in, 350-351
Shinny, game so called, 139, 140
Shoe, throwing for luck, 210
Shoeing of horses, customs at, 109
Shoemaker, trade legend about, 322- 326
Shoes worn by Irish of Branmore, 260
Shoulder-bone, divination (Greek), 171
Shrewsbury, May Queen, 191
Shropshire, burial superstition, 350 ; stories, variants of, 22, 23
Shrove Tuesday customs, 31, 32; cus- tom at Oxford, 221; custom at Sunningwell, 222 ; football on, 123, 124
Sibree (Rev. James): Malagasy folk- tales, 45-57, 75-81, 129-138, 161-168
Sicily, children's games in, 82-88 ; superstition in, 254
Sieves and knives, omens from, 25
Sleeping north and south, 93
Slugs, cure for rickets, 379
Snails used in folk-medicine, 219
Sneezing, omen from (America), 24 ; at childbirth, 257
Soldiers, children's game of, an omen (America), 24
