Folk-Lore/Volume 26
FOLK-LORE
A QUARTERLY REVIEW
OF
MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM
BEING
The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society
And Incorporating The Archæological Review and
The Folk-Lore Journal
VOL. XXVI.—1915
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1915
[LXXV.]
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
CONTENTS.
| I.—(March, 1915.) | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Minutes of Meetings: January 20th and February 17th, 1915 | 1 | |
| Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Council | 3 | |
| Cash Account for 1914 | 8 | |
| Presidential Address: War and Savagery. R. R. Marett | 10 | |
| The Dasahra: an Autumn Festival of the Hindus. W. Crooke | 28 | |
| Some Notes on East African Folklore. A. Werner | 60 | |
| A Priest King in Nigeria. P. A. Talbot | 79 | |
| II.—(June, 1915.) | ||
| Minutes of Meetings: March 17th, April 21st, and May 19th, 1915 | 113 | |
| Psychology and Ethnology. A. M. Hocart | 115 | |
| Myths of Origin and the Home of the Dead in Indonesia. W. J. Perry | 138 | |
| III.—(September, 1915.) | ||
| Some Algerian Superstitions noted among the Shawia Berbers of the Aurès Mountains and their Nomad Neighbours. M. W. Hilton-Simpson | 225 | |
| Obeah in the West Indies. His Honour J. S. Udal, F.S.A. | 255 | |
| IV.—(December, 1915.) | ||
| Minutes of Meetings: June 16th and November 17th, 1915 | 337 | |
| The Religious Basis of Social Union. Dr. F. W. Bussell | 339 | |
| Catalogue of Brand Material. C. S. Burne | 358 | |
| | ||
| Collectanea:— | ||
| Folk-Tales of the Angāmi Nāgas of Assam, II. J. H. Hutton | 82 | |
| Folklore of the Waldenses Valley. Ethel Hargrove | 88 | |
| Folklore Notes from South-East Australia. Wilton Hack | 90 | |
| Offering of a Wax Figure with an English Arrow at Boulogne. A. B. Gomme | 92 | |
| North China: Surgical Operations. Nursing Times, 24th February, 1912 | 92 | |
| Listener to the Dead. W. Crooke | 93 | |
| Scottish Folklore. The Reminiscences of Lady Wake | 93 | |
| Worcestershire Folklore. M. L. Stanton, J. B. Partridge, and F. S. Potter | 94 | |
| Scraps of Folklore collected by John Philipps Emslie. C. S. Burne | 153 | |
| Folklore of the War | 171 | |
| Some Nature Myths from Samoa. G. Brown, D.D. | 172 | |
| Folk Tales from Co. Mayo, Ireland. L. McManus | 182 | |
| Notes on Guernsey Folklore. Christine Ozanne | 195 | |
| Gulliver among the Lilliputians in the Twelfth Century, and the Tale of the Dog-headed Men. M. Gaster | 202 | |
| Burning the Yule Log in Montenegro. M. Edith Durham | 207 | |
| Notes on Scottish Folklore. G. A. Lebour | 208 | |
| Folklore Scraps—England. E. H. and H. J. Rose | 210 | |
| Lancashire Folklore. J. B. Partridge | 211 | |
| Wiltshire Folklore. J. B. Partridge | 211 | |
| Folklore from Durham. J. B. Partridge | 212 | |
| Baptism Folklore. Ronald Burn | 213 | |
| Goats and Cattle. J. T. Fowler | 213 | |
| Welsh Folklore. The Gloucestershire Echo, 14th October, 1914 | 213 | |
| An Animal Belief. P. J. Heather | 214 | |
| Roumanian Folk Tales. Frances Browne | 296, 389 | |
| Bringing in the Fly. Percy Manning | 400 | |
| Notes on Spanish Amulets. Fourth Series. W. L. Hildburgh | 404 | |
| Folk Tales from Malabar. F. Fawcett | 417 | |
| Correspondence:— | ||
| The Death Coach. J. E. Harrison and M. E. Murray | 98 | |
| Gypsy Carol. E. M. Leather | 99 | |
| Children’s Game. Doris L. MacKinnon | 215 | |
| The Death Coach. L. M. Eyre | 215 | |
| Obituary:— | ||
| Lucy Catherine Lloyd. C. S. Burne | 99 | |
| Major A. J. N. Tremearne. A. C Haddon | 431 | |
| Reviews:— | ||
| Walter Map. De Nugis Curialium. E. Sidney Hartland | 101 | |
| Arnold van Gennep. Religions, Mœurs et Légendes. E. Sidney Hartland | 104 | |
| E. W. Swanton and P. Woods. Bygone Haslemere. C. S. Burne | 106 | |
| E. C. Quiggin. Essays and Studies presented to William Ridgeway on his Sixtieth Birthday. W. H. D. Rouse | 107 | |
| W. H. R. Rivers. The History of Melanesian Society. E. Sidney Hartland | 216 | |
| Arthur Bernard Cook. Zeus, a Study of Ancient Religion. W. Crooke | 221 | |
| Gladys M. N. Davis. The Asiatic Dionysos. W. Crooke | 221 | |
| James P. Howley. The Beothucks or Red Indians, the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland. E. Sidney Hartland | 330 | |
| Sir James Wilson. Lowland Scotch as Spoken in the Lower Strathearn District of Perthshire. C. S. Burne | 335 | |
| M. A. Czaplicka. Aboriginal Siberia. E. Sidney Hartland | 418 | |
| Sir Herbert Risley. The People of India. M. Longworth Dames | 422 | |
| R. E. Enthoven. Folklore Notes.W. Crooke | 424 | |
| Mrs. John Roberts. Khasi Folklore. W. Crooke | 424 | |
| Thakur Rajendra Singh. Legends of Vikramaditya. W. Crooke | 424 | |
| Short Bibliographical Notices:— | ||
| A. J. N. Tremearne. The Ban of the Bori | 108 | |
| R. R. Marett. The Threshold of Religion | 109 | |
| Rendall Harris. Boanerges | 109 | |
| E. S. Hartland. Ritual and Belief | 110 | |
| H. A. Rose. Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-Western Provinces | 111 | |
| H. Parker. Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon | 223 | |
| J. G. Frazer, Kt. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Third Edition | 224 | |
| Grace Cleveland Porter and Harvey Worthington Loomis. Negro Folk Singing-Games and Folk Games of the Habitants | 427 | |
| W. R. Paton and W. R. Halliday. Modern Greek Carols in Honour of St. Basil | 427 | |
| W. H. R. Rivers. Sun Cult and Megaliths in Oceania | 428 | |
| Douglas Hyde. Legends of Saints and Sinners | 429 | |
| List of Plates:— | ||
| I. | Spanish Amulets | To face page 406 |
| II. | „„ | „„408 |