INDEX.
371
Migration theory of origin of folk- tales, 340, 342 Milk drawn from cows by witch with
rope and feathers, 81 Mine fairies, Cornish, 188 Miners' customs of Cornwall, 186, 187
superstitions about " Morpho
Cyprio " butterfly, 321 Mole-lore, 257 " Mole, the," origin of, in Cornwall,
37-38 Moles, Cornish name for, 193 Monteiro (Miss M.): Legends and Popular Tales of the Bastjue People, reviewed, 78-79 Months, lucky, for marriages, 230
Cornish sayings about, 192
Monuments, ancient Cornish, resort of
fairies, 178 Moon, superstitions connected with birth of children, 208
new, superstitions about, 21 8-219
rays, washing hands in, for
charm, 200 Moors, dress of the, 286-288 Morris-dance, English, derived from Spanish, 299; in Herefordshire, 299 "Mosquito dance," American child- ren's game, 136 "Mother Margarets," local name for
flies, Cornwall, 187 "Mother, mother, may I go out to play ?" Cornish children's game, 65- 56 Mother right; see " Relationship " Moths, believed to be pixies in Corn- wall, 182 Mourning, periods of, in China, 239 Mullein, cure for diarrhoea, 12 Municipal custom at Penzance, 108 Murray- Aynsley (Mrs. J. C): on Some secular and religious dances of cer- tain primitive peoples in Asia and Africa, together with their sur- vivals, 246-254, 273-314 Music and invisible musicians, 156-157 Musical instruments of people of Spiti
valley, 280 Mythological theory of origin of folk- tales, 339-341
Nails, superstitious beliefs about, 213 Naming children, Chinese ceremony of,
224 Negro tradition of creation, Guiana,
317 Negro songs from Barbadoes, 5-10,
130-133
Nelson's death first reported at Pen- zance, 109
New year decorations in Japan, 154-156
New year's day, Chinese superstition about, 129
Newlyn, custom at wells in, 106
News Rock, Scilly Isles, meeting place, 22
Night-jar, Malay tradition about, 328
Noah, tradition about, 321
" Nobody knows the trouble I've seen," negro song, 132
Numbers used in folk-medicine, 265
Oak tree at Boconnor, tradition of, 31 ;
at Lanhadron Park, 32 bearing strange leaves an ad- monition of death in Cornwall, 32 Oak and ash, witches' chair made of, 2 Oaths, forms of, among the Somali
tribes, 322-324 " Old witch," Cornish children's game,
53-54 Omens, Cornwall, 181, 186, 187, 191,
215-217, 220 Ordeal, " riding the hatch," 97 by cock crowing practised in
Towednack, Cornwall, 96; by fire, 97;
by touch, 97 Owls, hooting of, superstition, 353 , Malay traditions about, 329
Pacific, South, folk-tales of, 254-257
Palm Sunday, holy wells in Cornwall visited on, 91
Paper, strips of, hung at Chinese graves, 245
Parsley, cure for gravel, 13
Peacock (E.) : on Early trials of witches, 157-159
Peacock's plumes, legend of, 354
Pence collected at church used as charm, 206
Pengersick Castle, traditions of, 15-17
Penrhyn, tradition connected with, 28
Penzance, traditions at, 107
People spirited away by fairies, Corn- wall, 178
Perranzabuloe, lost church of, 95
Pins used with shroud of dead body- cause of ghost walking, 262
used for cure of evil eye, 194
thrown into holy wells by Cornish
people, 91
Piper's Hole, Cornwall, tradition of, 324
" Piskies' well," pins thrown into for propitiation, 91
