Folk-Lore/Volume 27
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. XXVII.—1916
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1916
[LXXVI.]
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
CONTENTS.
| I.—(March, 1916.) | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Minutes of Meetings: December 15th, 1915; January 19th and February 16th, 1916 | 1 | |
| Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Council | 4 | |
| Cash Account for 1915 | 8 | |
| Report of the Brand Committee to the Council of the Society | 10 | |
| Presidential Address: Primitive Values. R. R. Marett | 12 | |
| Mabinogion. Joseph Baudiš | 31 | |
| Catalogue of Brand Material. C. S. Burne | 69 | |
| II.—(June, 1916.) | ||
| Minutes of Meetings: March 15th, April 12th, and May 17th, 1916 | 113 | |
| Folk-Lore of the Banyanja. Madeleine Holland | 116 | |
| Masks and the Origin of the Greek Drama. Dr. F. B. Jevons | 171 | |
| Catalogue of Brand Material. C. S. Burne | 193 | |
| III.—(September, 1916.) | ||
| Minutes of Meeting: June 21st, 1916 | 237 | |
| Examples of Folk Memory from Staffordshire. Sambrooke A. H. Burne | 239 | |
| Some Characteristics of Irish Folklore. D. H. Moutray Read | 250 | |
| Three Lives of Saints: their bearing on Folklore. P. J. Heather | 279 | |
| IV.—(December, 1916.) | ||
| Minutes of Meetings: 15th November, 1916 | 349 | |
| The Magical and Ceremonial Uses of Fire. Winifred S. Blackman | 352 | |
| The Folklore of Shakespeare. Henry B. Wheatley | 378 | |
| Collectanea:— | ||
| Folk-Lore and Legends from the Coasts of Counties Mayo and Galway. T. J. Westropp | 99 | |
| The Pharmakos. Morley Roberts | 218 | |
| Burial Face Downwards to prevent the Return of the Ghost | 224 | |
| Folk-Lore and Legends from the Coasts of Counties Mayo and Galway. T. J. Westropp | 225 | |
| The Pharmakos. Jane E. Harrison | 298 | |
| Superstition in Essex | 299 | |
| At the Breden Stone | 300 | |
| Christmas Mumming in Ireland. Bryan Jones | 301 | |
| Notes on Folklore. J. B. Partridge | 307 | |
| A Folk-Tale from Asia Minor. Mary Mason Poynter | 311 | |
| Bibliography of the Writings of the late Sir Laurence Gomme on Anthropology and Folklore. Alice B. Gomme | 408 | |
| Notes on English Folklore. Ella M. Leather | 413 | |
| Folklore from India | 418 | |
| Notes on Irish Folklore | 419 | |
| Folk-Tales from the Tonga Islands. Rev. G. Brown, D.D. 426 | ||
| The Bur or Borough Man | 432 | |
| Betrothal Custom in North Wales. W. Crooke | 432 | |
| Marriage Customs in Cromarty. L. E. Ashton-Rigby | 433 | |
| The Worship of the God Obalufou: Cursing to obtain a Blessing | 433 | |
| | ||
| Obituaries:— | ||
| Right Hon. Sir John Rhys. E. Sidney Hartland | 110 | |
| Sir George Laurence Gomme. E. Clodd | 111 | |
| Giuseppe Pitrè. Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco | 314 | |
| Marian Emily Roalfe Cox. Charlotte S. Burne | 434 | |
| Reviews:— | ||
| Sarat Chandra Roy. The Oraons of Chota Nagpur: Their History, Economic Life, and Social Organization. R. V. Russell | 107 | |
| Lucien Foulet. Le Roman de Renard. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études. W. P. Ker | 231 | |
| R. V. Russell. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India.. E. Sidney Hartland | 317 | |
| St. John D. Seymour. Irish Witchcraft and Demonology. D. H. Moutray Read | 322 | |
| Elizabeth Andrews. Ulster Folklore. D. H. Moutray Read | 324 | |
| Septimus Sunderland. Old London’s Spas, Baths and Wells. C. S. Burne | 324 | |
| Recent Work in Slavonic Folklore. L. C. Wharton | 325 | |
| R. M. Dawkins and W. R. Halliday. Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A Study of the Dialects of Silli, Cappadocia and Pharasa. E. Sidney Hartland | 436 | |
| W. Wundt. Elements of Folk Psychology. R. R. Marett | 440 | |
| A. C. Parker. The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet. W. Crooke | 442 | |
| J. A. Houlder. Ohabolana or Malagasy Proverbs. E. Sidney Hartland | 445 | |
| Hutton Webster. Rest-Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality. W. Crooke | 447 | |
| N. W. Thomas. Specimens of Language from Sierra Leone; Law and Custom of the Timric and Other Tribes; Timric Grammar and Stories: Timric-English Dictionary | 447 | |
| Journal of the Folk-Song Society | 447 | |
| Jataka Tales. Edited by H. T. Francis and E. J. Thomas | 448 | |
| Short Bibliographical Notices:— | ||
| William Ridgeway, Sc.D., F.B.A. The Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races, in special reference to the Origin of Greek Tragedy: with an Appendix on the Origin of Greek Comedy | 236 | |
| Captain H. Wilberforce-Bell. The History of Kathiawad from
the Earliest Times |
236 | |
| Herbert Bruce Wannay. European and Other Race Origins | 236 | |