Folk-Lore/Volume 5
FOLK-LORE
A QUARTERLY REVIEW
OF
MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM
[Incorporating The Archælogical Review and
The Folk-Lore Journal.]
VOL. V.—1894.
Alter et Idem
LONDON :
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND.
1894.
[XXXIV.]
LONDON:
PRINTED AT THE BEDFORD PRESS, 20 AND 21, BEDFORDBURV, W.C.
CONTENTS.
| I.—(March 1894.) | ||
| PAGE | ||
| St. Valentine’s Day Custom at Northrepps. W. B. Gerish | 3 | |
| Cursing-Stones in Counties Fermanagh, Cavan, etc. G. H. Kinahan, M.R.I.A. | 3 | |
| Religious Tableaux in Italian Churches. W. H. D. Rouse | 4 | |
| Italian Votive Offerings. W. H. D. Rouse | 11 | |
| South Indian Murder Trials. E. Sewell | 14 | |
| Early Races of South India. F. Fawcett | 18 | |
| Guy Fawkes on the South Coast. Miss Burne | 38 | |
| Masock. Mrs. Murray-Aynsley | 40 | |
| Presidential Address. G. L. Gomme, F.S.A. | 43 | |
| II.—(June 1894.) | ||
| Saga-Growth. F. York Powell, M.A., F.S.A. | 97 | |
| St. Nicolas and Artemis. Prof. Eugene Anichkof | 108 | |
| The Roman van Walewein. Prof. W. P. Ker | 121 | |
| The Problem of Diffusion: Rejoinders. Joseph Jacobs, B.A., and A. Nutt | 129 | |
| III.—(September 1894.) | ||
| Further Notes from County Leitrim. Leland L. Duncan, F.S.A. | 177 | |
| Water and Well-Worship in Man. A. W. Moore | 212 | |
| On the Classification of Proverbs and Sayings of the Isle of Man; with a Collection of Proverbs in Manx and English. G. W. Wood, F.I.C. | 229 | |
| IV.—(December 1894.) | ||
| “Tommy on the Tub’s Grave”. R. Weir Schultz | 290 | |
| Ghostly Lights. M. J. Walhouse | 293 | |
| The Irish Mirabilia in the Norse “Speculum Regale”. Kuno Meyer | 299 | |
| Legends from the Woodlarks, British New Guinea. A. C. Haddon | 310 | |
| Reviews:— | ||
| Rev. S. T. Rand’s Legends of the Micmacs. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 70 | |
| M. A. Owen’s Old Rabbit the Voodoo. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 72 | |
| Joseph Jacobs’ More English Fairy Tales. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 70 | |
| Sir George Douglas’ Scottish Fairy and Folk-Tales. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 76 | |
| G. Pitré's Bibliografia delle Tradizioni popolari d’Italia. Joseph Jacobs | 150 | |
| M. Lehmann-Filhés’ Isländische Volkssagen. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 154 | |
| The Gaelic Journal. Leland L. Duncan, F.S.A. | 155 | |
| Some Recent Anthropological Essays. Prof. A. C. Haddon | 158 | |
| Suomalaisia Kansansatuja. John Abercromby | 324 | |
| W. F. Kirby’s Hero of Esthonia, and other Studies in the Romantic Literature of that Country. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 324 | |
| M. Wardrop’s Georgian Folk-Tales. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 326 | |
| Paul Sébillot’s Contes de la Haute Bretagne; Contributions à l'Etude des Contes Populaires; and Légendes du Pays de Paimpol. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 328 | |
| G. Georgeakis et Léon Pineau’s Le Folk-Lore de Lesbos. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 330 | |
| Joseph Jacobs’ More Celtic Fairy Tales. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. | 332 | |
| Correspondence:— | ||
| Should Folk-tales be termed Modern? Hon. John Abercromby and A. Nutt | 78 | |
| Irish Folk-lore. Miss Nora Hopper | 80 | |
| Sacrifices to the Dead. W. R. Paton | 164 | |
| Superstitions in the Canons. W. R. Paton and Dr. Gaster | 275 | |
| Clothed Images. Gertrude M. Godden | 334 | |
| Miscellanea:— | ||
| Folk-lore Items from Český Lid and North Indian Notes and Queries. W. H. D. Rouse | 81 | |
| Oxfordshire Mummers (Illustrated) | 88 | |
| An East-Anglian Harvest Custom. W. B. Gerish | 167 | |
| Popular Explanation of Tree-Decay. G. H. Skipworth | 169 | |
| Folk-lore Items from North Indian Notes and Queries. W. H. D. Rouse | 279 | |
| Blood Covenant. A. Nutt | 282 | |
| Fire o’ Stones. Nora Hopper | 282 | |
| Irish Folk-lore Items | 283 | |
| An Unpublished Scottish Lullaby. John Abercromby | 336 | |
| Scraps of Folk-lore. Isabella Barclay | 336 | |
| Modern Greek Birth-Customs. Miss Nutt | 338 | |
| Folk-lore Jottings from the Western Counties. Grey Hubert Skipworth | 339 | |
| Hop-Scotch at Simla. H. Babington Smith | 340 | |
| Widow Carrying Hay Inauspicious | 340 | |
| Jottings from Easingwold, Yorkshire. Hugh C. Fairfax-Cholmeley | 342 | |
| Wiltshire Jottings. S. Smith | 342 | |
| Guy Fawkes at Ramsgate. J. Lewis André | 343 | |
| Burial of Teeth with Body in Cornwall. Rosamond Venning | 343 | |
| Folk-lore Items from Český Lid. W. H. D. Rouse | 343 | |
| Folk-lore Items from North Indian Notes and Queries. W. H. D. Rouse | 344 | |
| Folk-lore Bibliography (1,2, 3, 4) | 90, 170, 284, 352 | |
| Index | 358 | |