Index.
461
Eagle-wood, ceremonies for collectors
of, Malays, 163 Earache, cure for, Bloemfontein, 182 Early History of Syria and Palestine,
The, by L. B. Paton, reviewed,
442-3
Ears : omens from, Hebrides, 33, 50 ; pierced &c., Sarawak, 438
East Anglia : (^see also Norfolk ; and Suffolk) ; gipsy bride jumps over bough, 238 ; saints in Nova Legenda Anglic, 214, 216
Easter Monday : ' lifting ' custom, Durham, 248, Lancashire, 249, Shropshire, 247-8, N. Wales, 248- 9, Warwickshire, 249, Yorkshire, 248
Easter Sunday : ' heaving ' custom, Durham and Yorkshire, 248 ; sun dances, Hebrides, 40 ; weather saying, Kennet Valley, 423
Easter Tuesday : ' lifting ' customs, Shropshire, 247, N. Wales, 248-9
East Indies, see Borneo ; Celebes ; Java ; New Guinea ; and Sumatra
East wind, name of, Hebrides, 38
Eccleshall : guisers, 107 ; Mothering Sunday, 107
Echo : origin of, Hebrides, 44
Eclipse : ceremony for birth during, Gurdaspur, 66 ; rice-spoon protects woman in labour during, Malays, 164
Edda, The : I. The Divine Mythology of the North, by W. Faraday, re- viewed, 223-4
Edgmond : cow-dung poultice, 74 ; place rhyme, 391-3
Edinburgh : Duddingston, folk ety- mology' of, 378
Eel : Boeotian, 441 ; eating causes madness, Hebrides, 36
Eggs : agitated in pail to raise storm at sea, Norfolk, 431 ; avoided by Baloches, 265 ; divination, used in, Hebrides, 54, Penang, 143 ; in dreams, Hebrides, 51 ; Eggs in Witchcraft, by E. Peacock, 431 ; first laid by pullet not brought into house, St. Briavel's, 171-2 ; odd number set, Hebrides, 35 ; pace eggs, Hebrides, 40 ; shells as witches' boats, Holland (Sic, 431
Egton Bridge: plough stots and sword- dancers, 302
Egypt : (^see also Alexandria) ; bride leaps over sword, 238 ;
ancient — chronology, 443 ; Exodus not from, new theory, 219 Eichstadt : abbess Walberga, 216 Eight : eighth child unlucky, Punjab,
68 Elbow : omens from itching of,
Hebrides, 50 Elder-tree : stick from in charm for
warts, Berkshire, 420 Elephant : taboo name in charm at
tribal feast, Malay Penin. , 159 Elk : group name, Sioux, 389 El Oued : fabulous snake at, 286 Elsass, see Largitzen El Wad, see El Oued Ely : Ss. Etheldreda and Werburg,
214 Emain Macha : Cuchulainn departs
towards, 335 Embleton (Northum. ): 'petting 'or
' louping ' stone for brides, 231 Emer, wife of Cuchulainn, 334 Emu : created by or derived from the
Mooramoora, Dieyeri tribe, 403-4,
407 ; sun created to enable man
to catch, Dieyeri tribe, 18 Eticyclopasdia Biblica, edit, by T. K.
Cheyne and J. S. Black, reviewed,
218-9 England : i^see also under names of
counties) ; north, ' lifting ' customs,
249-50 ; Horstman's Nova Legenda
Anglie reviewed, 212-7 '< temporary
marriages, 446 ; Seebohm's Tribal
Customs in Anglo-Saxon Law re- viewed, 97-101 Enstone : " Hoar Stone," traditions
about, 295 Eochaid Feidlech, 328 Epilepsy, cure for, Hebrides, 56 Erin, see Ireland Eriskay : folklore from, 29-62 Erysipelas, cure for, Hebrides, 56 Eskimo : derisive name given by
Indians to Inuits, 386 Essex : {see also Barking) ; St. Cedd,
215 . Esthonia : bride stands on stone, 234 Etain, daughter of Eochaid, 328-9 Etain of the Sidh. 328, 330 Eterscel, king of Tara, 328-9 Ettrick Forest : ballad of the Outlaw
Murray, 191 -2 Eurytus, etymology of, 442 Evil eye : charms against, 34 1 -4,
Hebrides, 52, Hebron, 337 ,
Khonds, 242, Syria, 113, 202, 337
