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America, Folk-Lore Society of, 84 Washington,
folk-lore of, 85-94; South, 210
American Indians, folk-lore of the Senecas, 196-199
Ancestral objects, sacredness of, Aino, 26, 49
Angler, the demon, Sutherlandshire, 164
Angus (St.) tombstone of, Balquhidder, 271
Animals assuming human shape, Aino, 10, 13, 14, 16, 22, 23, 24, 28, 42, 47; Sutherlandshire, 175, 176; Seneca Indians, 197; Hungarian, 208; Servian, 259, 261
, fabulous, Washington, 90; Sutherlandshire, 246-252
grateful, assist man, Servian legend, 254
killed on St. Martin's Roscommon, 57
, language of, Aino, 10
marriage of with human beings, Aino, 8, 11-13, 195
, terms used for talking to, 142-143
April fools, county Clare, 54; Longford, 61
Apparitions, Sutherlandshire, 167, 238-241, 242
Arabian superstition, milk and lightning, 211
Archæological remains, folk-lore connected with, Dorset, 117
Architectural saint, Tyrone, 58; Sutherlandshire, 157
Aristophanes, on the Clouds, 111, 112-113
Armies, spectral, Sutherlandshire, 242
Arrow shooting in Sutherlandshire, folk-tale, 232
Ascension day, Welsh mining superstition about, 211
Ash, ceremony at birth, Prabhus, 76
, veneration of, Ireland, 265
Assynt, noodle story of, 168-169
Astrology used at birth, Prabhus, 76
Austin (St.) well dedicated to, Dorset, 118
Axe, worship of the, Aino, 26
Babcock(W.H.) Folk-Tales and Folk-Lore collected in and near Washington, 85-94
Badger-goddess, Aino, 40
Balquhidder, folk-lore at, 268-271
Ballad, traditional, 144
Bamboo princess, Mentra, 74
Batchelor (Rev. J.) Some Specimens of Aino Folk-Lore, 193-196
Bear-goddess, man married to, Aino, 11-13, 36
Bears, trees turned into, Aino, 48; man turned into, Seneca, 197
Bees, told of death, Herts. 146
Beetle and the Virgin Mary, Sutherlandshire story, 161-162
Bell, sacred, used for discovery of thefts, &c. Clare, 53: Kildare, 53
Bells, church, disused during passion week, 146, 210
passing and funeral, Sutherlandshire, 243
