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

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