Folklore as an Historical Science

by George Laurence Gomme

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]