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. INDEX AFR AFRICAN beliefs, 67-68, 72, 88, Ainos, influence of the Japanese Amalgamation, principle of, in Ancestors, eating of dead, 120, - worship of, 127 Animals, power of witches over, - removed at death of owner, - sacrifice of, 136-144 - transfer of superstitious prac- Arm, right, of children kept un- Arran Isles, beliefs in, 54 Arresting powers in folklore, 12, BOY Aryan culture, 14, 15, 68 custom and belief in folk- Ash sap given to children as Ashantee, customs of, 152, 154 BANFFSHIRE, belief in, 55 Basques, couvade amongst, 133 Birth ceremonies, 129 Boar's head ceremony, 35 HAR Fire, birth ceremonies at, 131 Flintshire, Threapwood common Fly, guardian spirit of wells, Folklore, growth of the study, 1 Formula of well worship, 105; Fox's head preventive against Frazer, Mr., on agricultural gods. Frog-prince story, Oxfordshire. HAR Hartland, Mr., on fairies, 56; Harvest goddess in India, 27 Head-hunting, 147, 148, 149, Head of sacrificed animal, sanc- Heart of dying transferred to Herakles, stone representation Hereford, sin-eating in, 116 Holne, custom at, 32-34 Hornchurch, ceremony at, 35 Human sacrifice, 60-61, 72, 73, IMAGE, wooden, 140 witch, 51 Images, church, washing of, 168 Indian customs and rites, 19, race beliefs, 46-47 expulsion of evil in, 163 |