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INDEX.
Bechuana, Red Riding Hood story,
167-168 Bee, sacred to Ange Patyai, Mordvin
goddess, 106 Bee-goddess, Mordvin, 71, 73 Beehive-god, Mordvin, 70 Bell, church, Easter customs connected
with, Spain, 174 , of St. Menance, superstition
about, 45 Beltane Eve, safeguards against witches
used on, 277 Bibliography of folklore, 3, 5-6 Birch-tree, custom connected with the,
Scotland, 42 , sacred to Mordvin goddess, 106,
107-108
-, branches of decoration with, on
May Day, 265 Birds, rhymes on, 249 , transformation of, into human
beings, China, 319 Birth, name-giving at, 160
customs, Coorg, 300
Blind (Karl\ Collection ofFollttnles in
Sclwols, 20-21 Blood of the sacrifice, Mordvin, 82, 84 Blood-feud, Coorg, 297 Boat wrecked by witchcraft, 283 Bonfires, Spanish, 174 Border-story of Rumpelstiltskin, 144-
145 Borneo, change of child's name during
sickness, 156 Borrowing theory of the origin of
folktales, 267 Brass, incapable of conveying infection,
62 Bread, folklore of, 195-198 Brownies in Sutherlandshire, 54 Brushfield (T. N.), Devomhire Notes,
265 Buddhist tales, 306-313 Buff, game of, 238-239 Bull sacrifice, Mordvin, 82 Bullein's Dialogue against the fever
pestilence, quoted, 188 Bumble-bees, objections to, Mordvin,
106 Burial places used as temples, Mord-
vins, 82 Burials, peculiar family, Ireland,
39 Burmah, prohibition against using the
sovereign's name, 158 Burmese folklore, 306-313 Burne (C. S.), BerhysMre Sayings,
291-293 ; Staffordshire Sayings,
294-295 ; Story of Solomon's Wisdom,
315-316 Butter churning and witchcraft, 278,
280-281 Butterfly, unluck of, Scotland, 43
Cairene folklore, 191-195
California, lizards believed to have been little men, 24-25
Carts, non-use of, in Scotland, 199
Cat and kitten, game of, 234
Caul, children's, legend of, Mordvin, 105
Celts, or arrow- points, belonged to little men, California, 24
Charm for restoring cow's milk, 281
Chelsea, proverbial saying relating to, 291
Cheremis tribe of the Mordvins, 128
Children, guardian spirit of, Mordvin, 72
China, practice of not uttering Em- peror's name, 128
Chinese zoological myths, 318-319
Choral games of children, Dorsetshire, 206-215
Christ and the swallow, tradition of, 56 ; and the dove, 57 ; the stork, 57
Christianity and paganism, 85, 87
Christmas, yeel bread at, 197
■ festival among the Chuvash,
130; Mordvin, 116-124
Christmas games, children, 236-247
Church-building legends, 152-153 ; in- cident in, 149
Chuvash tribe of the Mordvins, 128, 130
Clan sacrifice, Mordvin, 81-82, 89, 90- 101
Clavie custom at Burghead, 11-14, 46
Clodd (E.), African Folklore, 22-25 ; The Philosophy of Rumpelstiltskin, 135-163
Clouston (W. A.), Oi'iginals and Analogiies of Chaucers Canter- bury Tales reviewed, 63-64; Group of Eastern Romances and Stories from the Persian, Tamil, and Urdu reviewed, 266-267
Clyack ceremonies, 49
Cobbler, game of, 238
Cobbs off, game of, 235
Collection of folklore, position of the work, 2, 356
Communal characteristics of nature- spirits, Mordvins, 67
Congress of Folklorists at Paris, 275- 276
