Folk-Lore/Volume 33
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. XXXIII.—1922
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
WILLIAM GLAISHER, LTD., 265 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.
1922
[LXXXII.]
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW.
CONTENTS
| I.—(March, 1922.) | |
| PAGE | |
| Minutes of Meetings: November 16th and December 21st, 1921 | 1 |
| Minutes of Meetings: January 18th and February 15th, 1922 | 5 |
| The Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Council | 7 |
| Cash Account | 11 |
| Presidential Address. Dr. W. H. R. Rivers | 14 |
| Asinus in Tegulis. H. J. Rose | 34 |
| Myths in the Making. A. M. Hocart | 57 |
| Shakespearian Story in Serbian Folklore. Pavle Popović | 72 |
| Myths from the Gilbert Islands. Arthur Grimble | 91 |
| II.—(June, 1922.) | |
| Minutes of Meetings: March 15th, April 12th and May 17th, 1922 | 133 |
| Colour Symbolism. Donald A. Mackenzie | 136 |
| Some Notes on the Folklore of the Algerian Hills and Desert. M. W. Hilton-Simpson | 170 |
| III.—(September, 1922.) | |
| Minutes of Meeting: June 21st, 1922 | 241 |
| The Folk-Lore of Herbals. Eleanour Sinclair Rohde | 243 |
| Tangkhul Folk Tales and Notes on some Festivals of the Hill Tribes South of Assam. J. Shakespear | 265 |
| The Origin of Monotheism. A. M. Hocart | 282 |
| IV.—(December, 1922.) | |
| Minutes of Meeting: November 22nd, 1922 | 335 |
| Museums and Raree Shows in Antiquity. E. Douglas Van Buren | 337 |
| Notes on the Religious Beliefs of the Eghāp, Central Cameroon. Captain L. W. G. Malcolm | 354 |
| Collectanea : — | |
| A Nebraska Folk-Song. Louise Pound | 113 |
| Glastonbury and the Grail. Mary A. Berkeley | 116 |
| Snake Stones. W. R. Halliday | 118 |
| The Indian Antiquary. The Bugata in Piedmont. S. A. Reynolds Ball | 119 |
| A Children’s Game and the Lyke Wake. Mary A. Berkeley | 121 |
| A Coleshill Ceremony: Folk-Tales from the Panjab. Sir L. W. King | 122 |
| Human Sacrifice in India | 124 |
| Asinus in Tegulis. H. J. Rose | 200 |
| Folk-Lore of the Isle of Skye. Mary Julia MacCulloch | 201 |
| A Recent Twin-Murder in S. Africa. J. Rendel Harris | 214 |
| Putting out the Broom. Wm. Self. Weeks | 294 |
| The Easter Island Figures. H. D. Skinner | 296 |
| A Children’s Game and the Lyke Wake. Marguerite Kerr | 299 |
| The Origin of St. Valentine’s Day. H. A. Rose | 302 |
| Witchcraft in Scotland. Alex. Keiller | 303 |
| Two Corician Legends. E. Adams | 304 |
| The Use of the Bow among the Naga Tribes of Assam. J. H. Hutton | 305 |
| Folk-Lore of the Isle of Skye. Mary Julia MacCulloch | 307 |
| The Kern Baby in India. Rev. F. Kilbey | 317 |
| Devils in the Alps. The Daily Express | 319 |
| Chinese Tomb Jade. W. Perceval Yetts | 319 |
| The Dragons’ Teeth; Blood falling on the Ground. Sir G. A. Grierson | 380 |
| Folklore of the Isle of Skye. Mary Julia MacCulloch | 382 |
| A Study of the Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland. T. J. Westropp | 389 |
| Folk Tales from the Nāga Hills of Assam. C. R. Pawsey and J. H. Hutton | 397 |
| The Cult of the Door amongst the Miao in South-West China. W. H. Hudspeth | 406 |
| Reviews:— | |
| Lewis Richard Farnell. Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality. W. Crooke | 125 |
| Ja’far Sharīf. Islam in India, or the Qānūn-i- Islām. T. C. Hodson | 126 |
| Émile Nourry. L’Éternuement et le Baillement dans la Magie, L’Ethnographic et le Folk-Lore Médical de P. Saintyves. E. Sidney Hartland | 127 |
| Dr. Courtenay Dunn. The Natural History of the Child. C. Jenkinson | 129 |
| Margaret Alice Murray. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe. W. R. Halliday | 224 |
| J. H. Hutton. The Sema Nagas. A. C. Haddon | 230 |
| R. M. Fleming. Ancient Tales from Many Lands. A. Hingston Quiggin | 232 |
| Narendra Nath Law. Aspects of Ancient Indian Polity. H. A. Rose | 234 |
| E. Westermarck. The History of Human Marriage. W. Crooke | 322 |
| J. S. Udal. Dorsetshire Folk-Lore. W. Crooke | 325 |
| Cecil Torr. Small Talk at Wreyland | 327 |
| Lilian Winstanley. Macbeth, King Lear and Contemporary History | 327 |
| R. E. Enthoven. The Tribes and Castes of Bombay. W. Crooke | 328 |
| Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society | 329 |
| Marcel Granet. La Religion des Chinois. W. Perceval Yetts | 411 |
| Sir Baldwin Spencer. Australian Association for the Advancement of Science: Hobart-Melbourne Meeting, January, 1921. E. Sidney Hartland | 413 |
| Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. The Old English Herbals. M. Gaster | 415 |
| Short Notices:— | |
| The Shepherd of Banbury’s Weather Rules and Some, Rhymes and Songs | 129 |
| C. Penswick Smith. The Revival of Mothering Sunday | 130 |
| Obituary:— | |
| Mansel Longworth Dames. W. Crooke | 131 |
| Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S. E. N. Fallaize | 330 |
| C. H. Tawney. | 334 |
| Index | 422 |