Index.
515
Arthur, King, see King Arthur
Arunta tribe ; churingas, 490 ; con- ception beliefs, 19, 119, 489, 492; deity, 134; folktales, 492-3; mar- riage customs and organisation, 178, 183, 186, 302; not primitive, 17-8, 20-1, 488-91 ; reincarnation beliefs, 21, 490; totemism, 16-26, 236-42
Ascension Day : birds caught, carried, and freed, W. Germany, 271
Asgard, hierarchy of, 387, 389-97
Ash-tree : {see also Yggdrasill-tree) ; as life-index, Wiltshire, 322 ; place names, Ireland, 62 ; as tree of sky- god, 62-6
Asia : {see also Asia Minor ; Baloches ; China ; Japan ; Korea ; Malay Pen- insula ; Palestine ; Persia ; Syria ; and Tibet) ; east and smith, scape- goats, 265
Asia Minor, see Cilicia ; Lycia ; and Phrygia
Ass, see Donkey
Assam, see Kukis
Assuan : {see also Qubbet el- Hawa) ; shadufs and shad uf songs, 198-9
Aston, W. G. , Hand Impressions instead of Seals, 1 13-4
Astrology : Tibet, 3
Astronomical folklore, see Dioscuri ; Moon ; Stars ; and Sun
Athens : Dionysus' annual marriage, 378 ; Siren from tomb, 135
Atnatu, supernatural being, Australia, 188
Atonement Day, see Day of Atonement
Attendorf: cat sacrificed, 276
Attica : {see also Athens) ; Cecrops local hero, 406
Attis, myths and worship of, 253-4
Auditors, election of, 5
Augury, see Divination
August : {see also St Bartholomew's Day ; and St Maree's Day) ; calends, privileges of Irish king on, 162 ; 1st, Lammas fair, St Neot's, 44, Lugnassad, 162
Australia : {see also Carpentaria, Gulf of; New South Wales; Queensland; South Australia ; Torres Straits ; Victoria ; atid West Australia) ; aborigines, life of, 15, 254 ; fire lighted at grave, 261 ; firestick carried to keep off spirits, 261-2; Gunn's The Little Black Princess reviewed, 254 ; van Gennep's
Mythes et L^gendes d'Australie : £tudes cT £lthnographie et de Socio- /i?§zi? reviewed, 488-93; The Native Tribes of South-East Australia, by A. W. Howitt, 107-110, 119, 174- 89 ; Mauss' L'Origine des Fouvoirs Magiques dans les Sociitis Austra- lienttes xeVie'WQd, 125-6; south, souls as birds, 264 ; spirits, beliefs about, 261 ; string games, 86 Austro- Hungary, see Bohemia ; Buko- wina ; Carinthia ; Carniola ; Cro- atians ; Hungary ; Illyria ; Istria ; Moravia ; Pokutia ; and Styria Autumn : {see also under names of motiths) ; feast and sacrifice at the close of harvest, Iceland and Nor- way, 416, 418 Avallach, son of Beli, 308-9 Avallon, isle of : origin of name, 308 Aventurine as protective against evil eye and witchcraft, 463
Baba month : rhyme, Cairo, 197
Babies, see Children
Backfooted Beings, by A. T. Crawford
Cree, 2, 7, 131-40 Badb the death goddess, 166 Badger : paw &c. as amulet, Spain,
461-2 {plate) Baetyls, see Stones
Baiame, Father of All, Australia, 1 16-7 Baile's strand, in Cuchulainn sagi, 150 Bailieborough : scooping water against
stream for cure of elf-shooting, 206 Balance Sheet of Folk-Lore Society,
II Balar Balcbeimnech, 29, 32, 58-60,
68-9, 165 Balar, hill of, see Uisnech Balconies : palms protect from light- ning, Spain, 470 Baldr : deified hero, 409 ; not named
in Icelandic sagas, 395, 426 ; tree
spirit, 389 Ballads, see Folk-songs Ballynafunshin, meaning of, 62 Baloches : Popular Poetry of the
Baloches, by M. Longworth Dames,
8-9 Ban, King, see King Ban Banffshire : fairs, 333 ; games, 104,
218-9 Bantu : {see also tinder names of tribes) ;
Bantu Folk Lore, by M. L. Hewat,
reviewed, 248-51 ; moa, 481 ; war
dances, 477
