INDEX
aborigines, savage, [219]
Abyssinian pygmies, [241]
African pygmy people, [241-2]
aged, killing of the, [68-78]
agricultural custom, [49], [163], [188], [192], [220], [311], [339], [352-3], [359]
Ahts of Vancouver Island, [62], [228]
All Souls, feast of, [331]
allocation of folklore items, [340]
altar superstitions, [198], [200]
American Indian creation myths, [131], [141], [258]
American Indian traditions, [144], [246]
analysis of custom, [159]
Andaman islanders, [218]
animal traditions, [239]
animals, domestication of, [258]
antagonism in folklore, [340]
anthropological conditions, [208-302]
apparitions, [188]
arm, right, left unchristened, [324], [325]
arresting force of Christianity, [321], [322]
Arthur traditions, [29], [33-34]
Arunta people (Australians), [265-274]
Ashantee creation myth, [141], [142]
ashes, custom connected with, [160]
aspirations of man, [145]
association, law of, in folklore, [166-9]
Aston and Cote, manor, [355]
Australian evidence, [61], [142], [143], [156], [187], [213], [217], [230], [232], [251], [256], [258], [262-74], [347]
Australoid race, [296]
Avebury (Lord), quoted, [65], [215]
Balder myth, [108]
ballads, growth of, [13]
baptism, [323-4], [325], [328]
baptismal water, [197]
barbaric conquest, [219]
Beddgelert bridge tradition, [26]
Bedfordshire evidence, [95], [287]
bees, telling the, [162], [164]
Bega (St.), [323]
belief the foundation of myth, [140-6]
Beowulf, quoted, [89]
Berkshire evidence, [95], [162]
boar as a totem animal, [287]
Border civilisation, [31], [183-5]
Boudicca, hare portent of, [288]
bow and arrow, [218]
Breton tradition, [21-22], [28]
bridges, tradition concerning, [25], [26]
Britain, totemism in, [276-96]
Buckinghamshire evidence, [162]
bull (white) ceremony, [161]
Bund (Willis), quoted, [118]
burial superstition, [198], [324], [339]
Burmese evidence, [347]
Bury (J. B.), quoted, [35], [345]
Bushmen dances, [141]
Cæsar, food taboos in Britain, [286-91]
Canary Islanders, custom, [325]
Catskin story, [59-66]
cattle, telling of death to, [162]
Celtic mythology, [103]
Celtic tribes of Britain, [25-28], [103-5], [111], [310]
Ceylon evidence, [31]
Chadwick (H. M.), quoted, [223]
charms, [188]
Cheshire evidence, [162]
child relationship to parents, [232]
child thought, [186], [187]
Childe Rowland story, [314-15]
children not related to parents, [61], [268], [271]
Christianity and paganism, [320-37]
church ceremony of marriage, [90-1]
church, sacred character of objects and buildings, [197-9]
churning superstition, [202]
civil war pamphlets, [195]
Claddagh fisherfolk, [279]
clan songs, [97]
class system in Australian totemism, [264], [265], [270], [272]
classification, false, of folklore, [166]
Clonmel witch case, [205]
club, for killing the aged, [74-76]
cock as a totem animal, [286], [289]
comparative folklore, [170-9]
conjectural method of inquiry, [225-6], [239], [250]
conquered, mythic influence of, [345-9]
conscious use of experience or observation, [211], [212]
conquest in man's history, [219]
Cook (A. B.), quoted, [106], [108]
Cornwall evidence, [20], [55], [162], [164], [193], [196], [324]
Crawley (E.), quoted, [155]
Crayford legend, [43]
creation myths, [130-9]
Cromm Cruaich, [344]
Cuchulain, totem descent of, [286]
Cuerdale hoard of coins, [30-31]
Cumberland evidence, [162], [184], [323]
custom, belief, and rite, [10], [123], [125], [154-70]
Cynuit, fight with Danes at, [5-6]
Danish conquest in tradition, [22], [31], [41], [192]
Darwin (C.), quoted, [213], [224], [247]
death beliefs, [191-2]
death, telling of, to bees, [162]
decay the principal force in folklore, [157-9], [319]
definitions, [129]
Demeter temple custom, [150]
Derbyshire evidence, [162]
descent, use of the term, [270]
Devonshire evidence, [5], [95], [96], [324]
differential evolution, [228]
diffusion of folk-tales, [153]
dog as a totem animal, [286]
doom rings, [323]
doors, decoration of, [334]
Dorsetshire evidence, [45], [94]
dreams, [13-20], [188]
Druidism, [341], [342-4]
duplication of myth, [33], [34]
Durham evidence, [162], [184], [324]
Easter-tide, [328]
economic influences upon early man, [219], [257]
Egyptian civilisation, [108]
Elton (C.), quoted, [73], [74], [78], [114], [286], [290], [344]
Essex evidence, [95]
ethnographic movements of man, [216]
ethnological conditions, [338-66]
Eucharist, sacred elements of, [197]
European conditions, [320-37]
European sky god, [106]
Evans (Arthur), quoted, [209]
Exeter custom, [96]
exogamy, [252], [271]
fact, basis of tradition upon, [10], [47-49]
fairs, [45]
family, the term, [235-7]
Farrer (J. A.), quoted, [145]
father kinship, [231], [259]
father and daughter marriage, [59-66]
female descent, [271]
festivals, pagan in origin, [328]
fictional literature, [6], [123], [145]
Fijian creation myth, [131]
Fir-Bolgs, [101]
fire, non-use of, [218]
fire worship, [106], [108], [160], [163], [317]
first foot custom, [162], [164]
fish as a totem, [290]
folklore, necessities of, [4-7]
folk-tales, [46-84], [123], [127], [129], [148-9]
food taboos in ancient Britain, [286]
formula of custom, [159]
fox totem in Connaught, [278-80]
Frazer (J.), quoted, [62], [108-9], [110], [140], [228], [253], [255], [265], [274], [283], [285], [287], [329], [338], [339], [365]
Fuegians, [247]
Gambia district, peoples of, [245]
Genesis creation myth, [137-8], [150]
geological age of man, [214]
giants, [194]
Gibbon (E.), quoted, [321], [327], [334]
Giles (Dr.), quoted, [113]
Gold coast natives, [230]
Gomme (Mrs.), quoted, [26]
goose as a totem animal, [286], [289]
Gospels used as charms, [199]
gossip, meaning of, [278]
Gregory (Pope), letter of, to Mellitus, [329-30]
Greek totemism, [275]
Greek laws, [85], [86], [87], [88]
Grey (Sir George), quoted, [143]
Grierson (P. J. H.), quoted, [45], [230]
Grimm, quoted, [7], [78-81], [327-8]
group (human) the unit of anthropological work, [234]
Guthlac (St.) legend, [350-2]
Haddon (A. C.), quoted, [188], [228], [253], [254]
Hampshire evidence, [96], [162], [192]
hare as a totem animal, [280], [287-9]
Harris, island of, [354]
Hartland (E. S.), quoted, [23], [148], [259], [265]
Hawick Common riding, [98-99]
Hebrew creation myth, [137-8]
Hereward in history and tradition, [35-40]
historians, neglect of folklore, [110-20]
historical material, [2-4]
history and folklore, [1-122], [315]
holy, the word, [317]
"holy mawle," [74]
horde, type of society, [225]
hostility among primitive groups of mankind, [264]
Howitt (A. W.), quoted, [142], [230]
hunting stage of society, [220]
Huxley (T. H.), quoted, [138]
idols in Christian churches, [328]
Indian evidence, [13], [27], [31], [52], [55], [63], [66], [72], [73], [78], [85], [86], [87], [101], [109], [119], [135-6], [146], [151], [174], [175], [193], [217], [229], [231], [258], [271], [309], [310], [315], [348], [349], [353], [357]
industrial evolution, [228-30]
Innis (Thomas), quoted, [113]
institutions and religion, [305], [306], [360]
Irish evidence, [11], [49], [50], [56-59], [88], [97], [108], [159], [163], [177], [182], [183], [198], [205], [276-82], [286], [287], [324], [330]
Italy, Christian and pagan beliefs in, [331-4], [335]
Java, remains of man in, [214]
Jevons (F. B.), quoted, [140], [141], [145], [236]
Jewish temple rite, [200]
Joyce (Dr.), quoted, [116]
junior right inheritance, [96], [172-4], [223], [313]
Keane (A. H.), quoted, [214], [215], [241]
Keary (J. F.), quoted, [313]
Kemble (J. M.), quoted, [3], [42], [89]
Kent evidence, [43], [191], [330]
Kentish laws, [92]
Kilmorie, [352]
kinship, [219], [220], [226], [230], [261]
kinlessness, [225], [231], [235], [240-7], [256], [261], [268]
Kronos myth, [134]
Lambeth pedlar legend, [20]
Lancashire evidence, [20], [162], [191], [289], [324]
lands, surrender of, to sons, [70-2]
Lang (A.), quoted, [7], [116], [131], [132], [153], [225], [226], [236], [253], [254], [255], [263], [265], [271], [272], [273], [275], [339]
Lapps as sorcerers, [349]
Lappenberg (J. M.), quoted, [113]
Latham (Dr.), quoted, [214], [215-16], [241]
Lauder, [354]
Law, traditional origin of, [84-100], [196], [328]
left and right superstition, [166]
legend, [124], [127], [129], [151-2]
legislation, primitive, [213], [273]
Leicestershire evidence, [198]
Lincolnshire evidence, [30], [162], [350-2]
Litlington tradition, [43]
local traditions, [13-33]
locality influence of, [219], [344]
Lockyer (Sir Norman), quoted, [107]
logic of primitive man, [140]
London Bridge legends, [13-33]
Lud, Celtic god, [105]
Lundinium (Roman), [24], [25], [105]
Mabinogion creation myth, [136]
MacCulloch (Mr.), quoted, [47], [82], [123], [173], [239], [313], [338]
Maine (Sir Henry), quoted, [85], [87], [117], [226], [235]
male descent, [269], [270]
male groups, [225], [239]
manorial evidence, [94-96], [305]
manumission formula, [92]
Manx custom, [160], [162]
Maori myths, [143], [144]
marriage ceremony, [90-91], [162]
marriage customs in folk-tales, [65]
materials and methods, [123-79]
McLennan (J. F.), quoted, [61], [65], [225], [293]
midsummer festivals, [328]
migratory movements of man, [214-17], [221], [222], [223], [224], [237], [251], [264], [266]
monogenists, [213]
Morgan (L. H.), quoted, [225], [275]
mother influence in totemism, [257], [267]
mother kinship, [231]
Moytura monuments, [101], [102]
Murray (Dr.), quoted, [98]
myth, [127], [129], [130-48]
mythology, [9], [100-10], [128], [146-8], [303]
names (totem), origin of, [260]
natural objects, interpretation of, [193]
neglect of observation, [231]
neolithic burial custom, [339]
New Guinea evidence, [345]
New Zealand myths, [131], [132-3], [190], [217], [346]
Nicholson (Dr.), quoted, [172], [173]
Nod, Celtic god, [105]
Nonconformist appeal to church, [200]
Norfolk evidence, [14-19], [42], [163]
Norse custom, [174], [175]
Norse tradition, [22-23], [32]
Northamptonshire evidence, [198], [288]
Northumberland evidence, [162], [324], [325]
Notes and Queries, quoted, [6]
Nottinghamshire evidence, [96], [162]
nursery rhymes, growth of, [13]
Nutt (A.), quoted, 6, [222], [339]
oath-taking customs, [200]
O'Curry (Eugene), quoted, [113]
offertory money, [197]
oral tradition, force of, [87], [125]
outlawry, [311]
oxen, slaughter of, [329]
palæolithic implements, [217], [218]
Palgrave (Sir F.), quoted, [88], [113]
parallel practices as evidence of common origin, [109], [171-6], [227]
pastoral stage of society, [220], [358]
Pearson (Dr. Karl), quoted, [47], [78], [201]
Pearson (C. H.), quoted, [115]
Pedlar of Swaffham legend, [14-19]
personal traditions, [33-46]
Petrie (Flinders), quoted, [222]
Pictish marriage custom, [344]
political races, [209], [219], [221]
polygenists, [213]
pottery, [218]
Powell (York), quoted, [3], [8], [104]
practice and rule, [227]
pre-Celtic remains, [101], [118-20], [209], [275], [318], [350]
priest's grave superstition, [199]
priests of old religion regarded as magicians, [200]
promiscuity, [224]
Protestants appeal to Roman Catholicism, [200]
psychological conditions, [180-207]
purpose of custom, [159]
pygmy peoples, [238], [241-5], [248], [348]
Ramsay (Sir James), quoted, [115]
record of custom, [156], [165]
religion and folklore, [140]
religion and myth, [138]
religion and science, [138-9], [206]
result in custom, [159]
retrogression in human society, [249]
Rhodopis tradition, [53]
rhyming tenures, [94-95]
Rhys (Sir John), quoted, [29], [33], [34], [105], [114], [115], [161], [163], [209], [342], [345], [350]
Ridgeway (Prof.), quoted, [308]
right and left superstition, [166]
rites explained by myth, [146]
Rivers (Dr. W. H. R.), quoted, [150], [174], [229]
Robertson-Smith (W.), quoted, [147], [174], [282], [303], [304]
Rollright stones, [209]
Roman Britain, [25], [30], [105], [360-2]
romances, [124]
Rome, ancient customs of, [26], [34], [151], [332], [349]
sacrifice (human), [174-6]
savage customs in Britain, [112-16]
savage incidents in folk-tales, [78-82]
Scandinavian custom, [71], [223], [323], [328]
Scarborough warning, [93-94]
science, primitive, [130], [131]
Scottish evidence, [20], [48], [49], [50], [56], [65], [67-78], [92], [149], [162], [181], [182], [198], [288], [289], [290]
seal totem in Connaught, [280-2]
Semangs of Malay peninsula, [218], [242-5], [267], [269], [270], [278], [297-302], [348]
sermon quoted, [189]
sex cleavage in human evolution, [251], [260]
Shrewsbury Abbey Church, tradition, [43]
Shropshire evidence, [43], [95], [162], [292]
Sids, Irish, [341]
Skene (W. F.), quoted, [114], [115], [344]
sky-god, [106]
Slavonian tradition, [54]
snake stones of Whitby, [194]
sociological conditions, [303-19]
Somersetshire evidence, [45], [95], [162], [205]
soul resident in backbone, [189], [190]
Southampton custom, [96]
specialisation of culture, [227], [233], [364]
Spencer (Herbert), quoted, [117], [214]
Spencer and Gillen, quoted, [143], [265]
Spenser (Edmund), quoted, [4], [11], [177]
Squire (Mr.), quoted, [33], [34], [101-3], [117]
stationary conditions of life, [223], [224]
state religion, [103-5]
Stevenson (W. H.), quoted, [5]
Stewart (J. A.), quoted, [145]
stone circles, [107], [193], [194]
Stonehenge, [107], [209]
Suffolk evidence, [161], [162], [192]
Sullivan (W. R.), quoted, [113], [120]
Surrey evidence, [20], [162]
survivals, [154-5], [319], [336]
Sussex evidence, [41], [162]
tappie, tappie, tousie, [92]
telling tales, [149]
Teutonic religion, [104]
Teutonic tribes, [310]
Thomas (N. W.), quoted, [214], [226], [232], [236], [265]
threshold custom, [159], [334]
toad in witchcraft, [203]
Todas, loss of myth by, [150]
totemism, [209-10], [252], [253-61], [274-96]
transfer of superstition to different objects, [163], [325]
treasure legends, [13-24], [30]
trees, marriage of, India, [258]
tribal life in tradition, [51-59], [103-5]
tribal institutions, [307-18], [356], [364]
tribe, the term, [234], [308]
Tuatha de Danann, [101]
Turner (Sharon), quoted, [113]
Tylor (E. B.), quoted, [9], [133], [154], [200], [233], [239]
Upsall, Yorks, legend from, [19]
ver sacrum, [223]
Vortigern, [62]
water god, [105]
well worship, [163], [164], [323], [326]
Welsh evidence, [20], [26], [34], [162], [194], [200], [202]
Westermarck (Dr.), quoted, [225], [239]
Westmoreland evidence, [184]
Wilde (Sir W.), quoted, [45], [101]
William the Conqueror, Sussex tradition, [41]
Wiltshire evidence, [44], [45], [95], [162], [287], [288], [354]
witchcraft, [194], [201-6]
wolf totem in Ossory, [276-8]
women in early industrialism, [257]
Worcestershire evidence, [162]
Yorkshire evidence, [19], [20], [30], [78], [93], [162], [184], [194], [324], [325]
Yule-tide, [328]
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List of Amendments:
Page [42]—ryhme amended to rhyme— "... the old rhyme is still remembered ..."
Page [76]—missing accent added to "vice versâ".
Page [92]—signifiance amended to significance—"... rhythmical formulæ which have legal significance."
Page [118]—missing accent added to "primâ facie".
Page [184]—preceeding amended to preceding—"... those immediately preceding the reign ..."
Page [198]—bedesecrated amended to be desecrated—"must not be desecrated"
Page [271]—missing apostrophe added—"do not go to the wives' region of abode."
Page [368]—Firbolgs amended to Fir-Bolgs, in line with other occurrences.
Footnote [358]—missing period added at end of footnote.
Footnote [416]—Ser. made consistent with other occurrences— amended to "ser."
Footnote [469]—comma added—"Myth, Ritual and Religion".
Footnote [473]—precedessors amended to predecessors—"... apparently dependent upon their predecessors."