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INDEX.
Babies carried ofE by fairies, Cornwall,
183 Ball, playing at, in aboriginal Formosa
folk-tales, 141-143 game of, played in streets in
Ladakh valley, 282 Bailor of Tory, Irish legend, 66 Baptismal rites at Cornish holy wells,
92
custom, Ireland, 333
Barbadoes, Negro songs sung in, 5-10,
130-133 Barley bread, Cornish children's game,
58 Barrows, Cornish, tradition of buried
treasures in, 30 ; see " Giants " Bees, Cornish superstition about, 192 Belgaum, S. India, dance called club- dance at, 219-250 Bells, church, inventor of, 307 Betrothal stone in Scilly Isles, 40 Birds, belief of ill luck connected with, 316,318,319
omens from in Cornwall, 217
produced from trees, Scottish
superstition, 262
Ceylon, folk-lore of, 352
Chinese legends of, 124-127
Malay traditions about, 328-331
Birmingham, ghost laying at, 261-262 Birth customs, Chinese, 127-128, 221-
226
Cornish, 208-209
Black (W. G.), on folk-tales of Fries- land, 335-338
Blackberry leaves, cui'e for diarrhoea, 12
"Blackberry wine," American child- ren's game, 135
Blanchminster family, tradition con- nected with, 36
" Blind Buck a Davy," Cornish child- ren's game, 57-58
Blood, power of staunching possessed by witch, 198
staunching of, charms for cure
Cornish children's
of, 203 " Bobby Bingo,
game, 58 Boconnor oak-tree tradition, 31 Body, superstitions connected with, 219 Boils, Irish plant cures for, 12 Bounds, water, of Truro, ceremony of
renewing, 30-31 Bowditch (C. P.), on Negro Songs from
Barhadoeny 130-133 Boys (young) dressed as girls in China,
129
Bread from communion table used as
charm, 198 baked on Good Friday, properties
of, 202 British Guiana, folk-lore of, 315-321 Britten (J.), en the hare in folk-lore,
263-264 Broom, cure for dropsy, 11
' witch's, found at Wellington;
see "Witch's" Brownie, Cornish fairy, pranks of, 180 Building, superstitions connected with,
260-261
traditions, Cornish, 25, 27,
28
of Bottreaux Church, 33 of St. Neots Church, 32 at Towednack Church, 96
- Buck shee, buck," Cornish boys
game, 59 " Buckey how," Coniish boys* game, 60 Bullock, pins struck in heart of, 199 Burdock, cure for dropsy, 12 Burial on hill sides among Chinese,
237 Buried cities, tradition of, in Corn- wall, 95 treasures said to be guarded by
fairies, 184 Burmese dance, 297 Burne (Miss C. S.): on Some simple
methods of promoting the study of
Folk-lore and the extension of the
Folk-Lore Swiety, 62-65 Buryan, tradition of stone circle at,
104-105 Busk (Miss R. H.): Folk-songs of
Italy, reviewed, 173-175 Butchers, custom of, in Penzance, 111 Butterfly, superstitious belief about,
214 Butterflies of Muzo, superstitious belief
of, 321 Buzzards, legend of, in Panama, 321
Cairn known as witches' haunt, 98 Cairo, dress of people of, 283-284 Cake, wedding, unlucky to break, 216 Calf sacrificed to remove ill-luck, 1 95 " Calie CO lin cum bin," Barbadoes
negro song, 6 Cambridge, celebration of Plough
Monday at, 161 Cancer, Irish cures for, 11 Candles used at deaths in China, 238 Capture, relic of marriage by, in
Donegal, 332; sec "Marriage"
