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 totem-
ism, 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 ob-

servation, 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 folk-

lore, 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

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
Firbolgs, 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

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,

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,

priest's grave superstition, 199
priests of old religion regarded as
magicians, 200
promiscuity, 224

Protestants appeal to Roman Ca-
tholicism, 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, tradi-
tion, 43
Shropshire

292

evidence, 43, 95, 162,

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

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, 4!

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

Zulu folk-tales, 51, 64