# The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893

The International Folk-Lore
Congress of the World's
Columbian Exposition
Chicago, July, 1893
Volume I
Archives of the International Folk-Lore
Association
Editors Helen Wheeler Bassett
Frederick Starr
CHICAGO
Charles H. Sergel Company
1898.
Copyright, 1898, by the
International, Folk-Lore Association.
CONTENTS
| | Page |
| Preliminary Address of the Committee on a Folk-Lore Congress | 3 |
| List of the Advisory Council | 7 |
| Program of the International Folk-Lore Congress | 10 |
| Sketch of Lieutenant Fletcher S. Bassett | 15 |
| Address by Lieutenant F. S. Bassett | 17 |
| Address of Welcome on Behalf of the Chicago Folk-Lore Society, by Professor Wm. I. Knapp | 24 |
| The Magic-Poetry of the Finns and its Application in Practice, by Hon. John Abercromby | 26 |
| The Northern Trolls, by David Mac Ritchie | 42 |
| Unspoken, by Rev. Walter Gregor | 56 |
| A Kind of Worship of the Dead in Finland, by Prof. Kaarle Krohn | 64 |
| Funeral Customs and Rites among the Southern Slavs in Ancient and Modern Times, by Cav. Vid Vuletic Vukasovic | 70 |
| A Few Notes on the Songs of the Southern Slavs, by Cav. Vid Vuletic Vukasovic | 83 |
| Three Polish Folk-Songs, by Michael de Zmigrodzki | 88 |
| The Prehistoric Worship of the Hop among the Slavs and its Relation to Soma, by Erasmus Majewski | 90 |
| Buried Alive, by Rev. H. F. Feilberg | 104 |
| The Rise of Empiricism, by Otis Tufton Mason | 117 |
| Notes on Cinderella, by E. Sidney Hartland, F. S. A | 125 |
| The Fatality of Certain Places to Certain Persons, by Miss C. S. Hawkins Dempster | 137 |
| Telling the Bees, Eugene Field | 141 |
| The Symbol of the Vase, in Myth, Ideography, Language, Hagiography, Literature and Folk-Lore, by Dr. Stanislas Prato | 143 |
| Some Popular Beliefs of Egypt, by G. Maspero | 174 |
| Modern Greek Folk-Mythology, by Lucy M. J. Garnett | 182 |
| Some Notes on the Primitive Horde, by Ludwig Krzyurcki | 199 |
| The Sign Language of the Plains Indian, by H. L. Scott, Captain, 7th Cavalry, U. S. Army | 206 |
| Sioux Mythology, by Dr. Charles A. Eastman | 221 |
| Some Sacred Objects of the Navajo Rites, by Washington Matthews, Surgeon, U. S. Army | 227 |
| Diurnal Birds of Prey and Mexican Symbolism, by Count H. De Charency | 248 |
| Discussion, by John G. Bourke, Captain 3d Cavalry, U. S. A. | 256 |
| Pigments in Ceremonials of the Hopi, by A. M. Stephen | 260 |
| Legendary Lore of the Coast Tribes of Northwestern America, by James Deans | 266 |
| The Antiquity of the Folk-Lore of the American Indian, by Katherine S. Stanberry | 278 |
| ​The Exploits of Tamaro-the-Terrible; a myth from Manihiki, by Rev. William Wyatt Gill, LL., D | 280 |
| The Mythical Story of Maui, the Prometheus of Polynesia, by N. B. Emerson, M. D | 288 |
| The Folk-Lore of Japan, by Rev. Wm. Elliott Griffis | 294 |
| Græco-Roman and Japanese Folk-Lore and Mythology, by Ernest W. Clement | 304 |
| Korean Folk-Lore, by Homer B. Hulbert | 308 |
| Voodooism, by Mary Alicia Owen | 313 |
| Comparative Afro-American Folk-Lore, by Annah Robinson Watson | 327 |
| Venezuelan Folk-Lore, by Dr. Teofilo Rodriguez | 341 |
| Some Superstitions of South American Indians, by Roger Welles, Lieutenant, U. S. Navy | 346 |
| Irish Legendary Lore, by Very Rev. John Canon O'Hanlon | 348 |
| History of the Swastika, by Michael de Zmigrodzki | 360 |
| Taming of the Shrew, in the Folk-Lore of the Ukraine, by Professor M. Dragomanov | 368 |
| A Study on the Ligotnes, Popular Latavian Songs of St. John's Eve, by Andre Jurjan | 374 |
| General Sketch of the Latavian People, by Henry Wissendorff | 386 |
| The Latavian Epopee, "Niedrishu Widewuits," by Henry Wissendorff | 399 |
| Lithuano-Latavian Mythology, by E. W. Wolter | 403 |
| Marriage Among the Roumanians, by Arthur Gorovei | 408 |
| Marriage Customs in Bulgaria, by Dr. Vulko I. Shopoff | 417 |
| Folk-Music, by Frederic W. Root | 424 |
| Program of Concert of Folk-Lore Songs and National Music, under the Direction of Frederic W. Root | 426 |
| Introduction to the German Papers, by Henry E. O. Heinemann | 438 |
| Comparative Jurisprudence on an Ethnological Basis, by Dr. Thomas Achelis | 441 |
| Why National Epics are Composed: Some Reflections Illustrated by a Song of Guslars of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Dr. Frederich S. Krauss | 447 |
| An Ancient Egyptian Creation Myth, by Prof. A. Wiedeman | 466 |
| Christmas Usages and Beliefs in Schleswig-Holstein, by Heinrich Carstens | 481 |
| Ancient Shrove-Tide Customs, with Special Reference to Roman Germania, by C. Rademacher | 488 |
| Contribution to the Study of Well-Service on the Lower Rhine, by O. Schell | 491 |
| Death and Burial: Superstitious Beliefs and Customs in Pomerania, by Dr. A. Haas | 493 |
| What shall we have for Dinner, by A. Treichel, | 503 |
| House Sprites (Familiars) in Pomerania, by O. Knoop | 504 |
| German Legends and Customs in Longfellow's "Golden Legend" by Dr. Robert Sprenger | 510 |
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