Folk-Lore.
TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20th, 1912.
The President (Mr. W. Crooke) in the Chair.
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.
The election of Lady Constance Boyle, Mr. J. Grant, Major M'Carrison, and Mr. J. F. Tocher, as members of the Society, was announced.
The deaths of Mr. W. Ker, Mr. A. Lang, and Mr. J. G. Tolhurst, and the resignations of Mr. A. R. Brown, Mr. G. F. Bridge, Mr. C. Gilbertson, Mrs. Greenaway, Mr. A. Kalisch, the Rev. F. M'Cormick, Mrs. Rounthwaite, and Mrs. Seligman, were also announced.
The withdrawal of the subscriptions of the Carnegie Free Library (Alleghany), the Franklin and Marshall College Library (Lancaster, Pa.), the Kiev Imperial Library, and the Worcester Free Public Library (Mass.), was reported.
Dr. W. L. Hildburgh exhibited and explained a number of Spanish charms and amulets against the evil eye, sorcery, etc., upon which some observations were offered by Miss Broadwood, Mr. Lovett, and Lady Gomme.
