[490] Roman Festivals, 264.
[491] Rhys, Lectures on Welsh Philology, 196.
[492] Life of St. Guthlac, by Felix of Crowland, edit. C. W. Goodwin, pp. 21, 23, 27, 35.
[493] Life of St. Guthlac, p. 43.
[494] Wright, Essays on Popular Superstitions of the Middle Ages, ii. 4-10.
[495] The substance of this part of my subject, with more elaboration in detail, is taken from a paper I contributed to the Transactions of the Folklore Congress, 1891.
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]