546
Index.
cure of elf-shooting, N.W. Ireland, 206-7 '■> years, serpent god carried round Dahomey city, 268-9
Three Kings, patron saints of travel- lers, 469
Thrush : mistletoe must pass through maw of, 447
Thunder : connected with Irish king, 167-8 ; customs concerning, 279 ; hymn of St Columcille sung against, Ireland, 327 ; Thor a thunder god, 389 : Tiermes a thunder god, Lapps,
452-3 Thursday : before Fastnacht, cere- mony, Grosselfingen, 272 Tibet : exhibits from, 3, 7 Tiermes, Lapp deity, 452-3 Tipperary county, see Borrisokane Tlachtga : centre for fresh fire of Samhain, 30 ; well of, water drunk by Irish king, 162 Toasts : at Yule feast, Scandinavia,
417
Toledo : amulets, 456, 463, 465, 467-9 (plates)
Tooth, see Teeth
Torres Straits : string trick, 370-2
Tortu, the tree of, 63, 65-6, 68-9
Totemism : Australia, 16-26, 107- IIO, 1 18-9, 489; Lang's The Secret of the Totetn reviewed, 236-46 ; theories discussed, 16-26
Toucan : in exorcism, Piaroas, 266-7
Translations of Folklore Publications, by G. L. Gomme, 230
Transvaal, see Johannesburg ; Shan- gann tribe ; atid Zoutpansberg
Travelling, see Journey
Travel Notes in South Africa, by E. S. Hartland, 385, 473-87 (plates)
Treasure, buried : in burial mounds, Iceland, 412-4
Treasurer, election of, 5
Trees in folklore : (see also Apple- tree ; Ash-tree ; Elm-tree ; Fruit- trees ; Hawthorn-tree ; Hazel-tree ; Holly ; Ilex ; Mango-tree ; Moun- tain ash ; Oak-tree ; Quicken-tree ; Rag-trees ; Sophora japonica ; Tamarisk; Walnut-tree; Yew-tree; and Yggdrasill-tree) ; baetyls near sacred trees, Crete and Ireland, 61 ; Baldr a tree spirit, 389; Bile a divinised tree, Ireland, 60, 65, 67, 171-2, 315, 452; Manannan's sacred trees, 143-51 ; nucleus of palace, Emain Macha, 337 ; of St
Maree, Ross-shire, 331 ; treegrow-
ing in castle sacred to sky-god,
Ireland, 171 ; tree of virtues, in
folktale, Ireland, 449-50 ; Tree
Worship in China, by A. R.
Wright, igo (plate); worshipped,
China, 190, Egypt, 199, Ireland,
448, Syria, 199 Tritons on Roman diadem, Lydney
Park, 41 Trochus shell : as amulet, Italy,
Spain, &c., 465-6 (plates), 471 ;
name given to seed amulet, Spain,
467 Trondhjem : cat's cradle, 86 Trout : in folktale, Ireland, 435 Trumpets : Tibet, 3 Truro : oak as life-index, 323 Tuatha De Danann, 28, 30, 32, 46,
154, 162, 165, 170, 209, 324, 326,
438-9, 444 Tuathal the Acceptable, King, see
King Tuathal Tuesday : right day for ploughing,
sowing, and reaping, 46 Tugela : witch doctor's necklace, 483
^late) Tug of war : annual, France, 272-4,
279 ; newly married share in,
France, 273, 279, Germany, 283 Tuirenn : saga of children of, 70 ; sons
of, 169 Tullaghoge : inauguration place of
O'Neills, 172 Tulle : tug-of-war &c., annual cere- mony, 272-3 Tumuli : Grianan Aileach, 32 Tunis, in Cairene droll, 195 Turkey in Europe : (see also Albania ;
Bulgaria ; Macedonia ; aW Servia);
"The Shade of the Balkans," by
Miss M. E. Durham, 113 Twins : one slain, Essequibo Indians,
494, Shangaans, 484 ; Harris's
T/ie Cult of the Heavenly Twins
reviewed, 493-8 Two Queries, by A. Lang, 507 Typhoid fever : due to snake, Bantu,
249 ; treatment of, Bantu, 249 Typhon : struggle with Zeus, 28-9 Tyr, sky god, 389
Uap island : string trick, 366 Ugaine, sons of, 65-6, 68 Uisnech, the tree of, 63-5, 68 Uist : games, 93-4, 102, 2II, 222; strength feat, 219
