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folklore puts before us. Difficult as it may be to realise, it is undeniably true that the records of uncivilisation are as real as those of civilisation, and that both belong to the same geographical area. The difficulty is not to be met by ignoring the least pleasing of the two records and magnifying the more pleasing. It is to be met by careful examination of the phenomena, and the correct interpretation of the various elements and their relationship one to the other. The examples of rude people which have escaped the fatal silence of history show at least that, if there is evidence of savage usages and beliefs in folklore, there is evidence also of savage people who are capable, so far as their standard of culture shows, of keeping up the usages and beliefs of savage ancestors.

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INDEX

AFR

AFRICAN beliefs, 67-68, 72, 88,
121. See Ashantee, Budas
Aged put to death, 135
Agriculture, place of, in culture
development, 70

Ainos, influence of the Japanese
on, 44

Amalgamation, principle of, in
folklore, 112

Ancestors, eating of dead, 120,
124-125

- worship of, 127
Animal guardian spirits of wells,
88, 92, 103

Animals, power of witches over,
49-50

- removed at death of owner,
125, 126

- sacrifice of, 136-144

- transfer of superstitious prac-
tices to, 144
Animism, 67

Arm, right, of children kept un-
christened, 130

Arran Isles, beliefs in, 54
Arrested development in folk-
lore, 11

Arresting powers in folklore, 12,
13, 14, 134, 160
Arrowheads (stone), 53–55
Artemis, cult of, 16-17, 19
Arthur, King, living as a raven,
159

BOY

Aryan culture, 14, 15, 68

custom and belief in folk-
lore, 13, 14, 15, 18, 65, 127,
134, 156

Ash sap given to children as
first food, 129

Ashantee, customs of, 152, 154
Australians, rain-making by, 169
influence of conquered abori-
gines among, 48

BANFFSHIRE, belief in, 55
Baptism, rite of, 130

Basques, couvade amongst, 133
Battahs, head-hunting by, 153
Bee, soul entering into, 160
Bees, telling of the death of
owners to, 125, 127
Belisama, river, 77
Berrington well worship, 82
Bird ceremony in well worship,
87

Birth ceremonies, 129
Blood, drawing of, at funerals,
126

Boar's head ceremony, 35
Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, well
worship at, 81
Boolying, custom of, 183
Border customs, 130, 144, 147
Boyne, tradition concerning the,
76

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HAR

Fire, birth ceremonies at, 131
Fish, guardian spirits of wells,
92-93, 101

Flintshire, Threapwood common
in, 181

Fly, guardian spirit of wells,
102

Folklore, growth of the study, 1
Food ceremonies at birth, con-
trasts in, 129-131

Formula of well worship, 105;
of superstitions connected with
the dead, 124; of witch and
fairy beliefs, 65

Fox's head preventive against
witchcraft, 35

Frazer, Mr., on agricultural gods.
69

Frog-prince story, Oxfordshire.

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Hartland, Mr., on fairies, 56;
Godiva ceremony, 37; on sin-
eating, 119

Harvest goddess in India, 27
Hastings, battle of, stone axes
used at, 189

Head-hunting, 147, 148, 149,
153-155

Head of sacrificed animal, sanc-
tity of, 26, 34

Heart of dying transferred to
the living, 156
Hearth god, 127

Herakles, stone representation
of, 19

Hereford, sin-eating in, 116
Historians' record of civilisations,
2-3, 192

Holne, custom at, 32-34
Holy mawle, 135

Hornchurch, ceremony at, 35
Horses' heads in Elsdon church,
35

Human sacrifice, 60-61, 72, 73,
78, 126, 140-141, 142, 171

IMAGE, wooden, 140

witch, 51

Images, church, washing of, 168
Inconsistencies in folklore, 8, 13,
110

Indian customs and rites, 19,
22-26. See Garos, Lhoosai,
Nagas, Orissa

race beliefs, 46-47
Initiation in witchcraft, 57
Inniskea, stone worship in, 168
Ireland, animal sacrifice in, 140
beliefs of, 50, 54, 114, 115
couvade in, 132

expulsion of evil in, 163
metempsychosis in, 159
stone worship in, 168
swearing upon the skull, 146
war customs, 146-147
- well worship in, 91-94
Irish, nakedness of, 178-179

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