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Index.
Kasur: belief about 'trikhal' births, 66 Kataragama. priests of, share in
Perahera festival, 77 Katik, month of : child born in un- lucky, Punjab, 280 Katitandra, see Lake Eyre Kattais : marriage rites, 242-3 Kattaragam : rice harvest ceremony,
77 Kayasths : bride puts foot on stone,
&c., 236 Kech : Balochi tribes in, 257 Kedah : familiar spirit, 150 Keeling Island : dancing - spoon,
142-3 Kelantan : possession at, 153-4 Kelat, see Kalat Kennedy, L., Lame Gods, 88-9 Kennet Valley, Folklore in the, by
Miss L. Salmon, 337, 418-29 Kent : {see also Canterbury ; Cranbrook ; Dover: Folkestone; Minster ; a;/^ Rochester) ; K. Ethelbert, 214 Kenyahs : head-hunting, 437; naming of child, 437-8 ; taboos on child before naming, 438 Khannas : parents re-married after
first birth, 279 Kharwars : marriage customs, 246 Khatris : {see also Chopras ; Kakars ; Kapurs ; Khannas ; Kochhars ; a7id Malhotras) ; funeral rites of hus- band performed in wife's first pregnancy, 279 Khonds : marriage ceremonies, 242 Killalpanina : legends from, 404-17 King Arthur : Rickerl's Marie de France ; Sez'en of her Lays done into English, and Weston's il/cr?>«, A ]\Iet7-ical Romance rendered into English prose from the Mediaeval Dutch, reviewed, 222-3 King Conaire the Great of Tara,
327-30 King Cormac of Ulster, 32S King Eterscel of Tara, 328-9 King Herla, story of, 222 R'ing Horn, by J. Hall, reviewed, 1 1 1 King Laurin, Prof. Amersbach's
theory about, 222 Ivings, Anglo-Saxon, referred to in
Nova Legenda Anglie, 214-6 Kingsclere : witchcraft, 427 King's Lynn : witchcraft, 431 King Solomon, in Arab legend, 285 King, W. J. H., Myths Current in the Sahara Desert. 2S4-S
Kinross : 'dumping custom, harvest,
Kirarawa class, see Urabunna tribe
Kirn dollies, see Corn spirits, vegeta- tion souls, and the like
Kirtlington : witch takes shape of fox, 289
Kirton-in-Lindsey : Christmas bough, 203 : jingle from, 92
Kistna : fire-walking, 90
Klerksdorp : green paint as cure for ailments, 70
Knife : in charm against stye, Hebrides, 58 ; in mast brings wind, Hebrides, 32 ; in proxy marriage, India, 80
Knock : visions at, 91
Knotting : at marriage, 34, Kanjaris,
243 Knutsford : marriage customs, 245 Kobongs or totems, W. Australia,
Kochhars : customs during first
pregnancy, 279 Kolis : bride stands in basket with
stone, 235 Koombokkaburra tribe : dead not
named, 19 ; religious belief, 19 Kootchie, evil spirit, Dieyeri tribe,
403 ; Yaurorka tribe, 41 1-2 Korai, Balochi tribe, 257 Kris, Malay : familiar demon in
form of, 148, 158 Krishna, sun god, in Perahera
festival, Kandy, 78 Krugersdorp : pneumonia, cure for, .70 Kula (Himalayas) : yew sprig offered
to god Bastar, 20I Kulva (a hakea), in Urabunna
legend, 413 Kumaon : unlucky children, 198 Kunundaburi : gaura or totem, 352 Kurnai tribes : no religious belief,
but practise magic, 19-20 ; women
kill sex totem of backward wooers,
362 Kutchi, see Kootchie Kuyimokuna, A Legend of the Dieri,
405-6 Kuyuna, in Wonkanguru and Ura- bunna legend, 414
Ladybird : formula for, addressed to butterfly, Walkley, 432