# Folk-Lore/Volume 31

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. XXXI.—1920
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
WILLIAM GLAISHER, LTD., 265 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.
1920
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
CONTENTS.
I.—(March, 1920.) :
| Minutes of Meetings: November 19th and December 17th, 1919 | 1 |
| Forty-second Annual Report of the Council | 5 |
| Presidential Address. A. C. Haddon | 12 |
| Some Experiments on the Reproduction of Folk-Stories F. C. Bartlett | 30 |
| The Concept of “Soul-Substance” in New Guinea and Melanesia. W. H. R. Rivers | 48 |
| List of Members | 89 |
| II.—(June, 1920.) ||
| Minutes of Meetings: January 21st, February 18th, and March 17th, 1920 | 89 |
| The Museum and Exhibits Committee | 92 |
| Mother-Right in Ancient Italy. H. J. Rose | 93 |
| The Marriages of the Gods at the Sanctuary of Tailltiu. Thomas Johnson Westropp | 109 |
| III.—(September, 1920.) ||
| Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore. A. H. Sayce | 173 |
| Witches and the Number Thirteen. M. A. Murray | 204 |
| Thirty-two Folk-Tales of the Edo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria. Northcote W. Thomas | 210 |
| IV.—(December, 1920.) ||
| Minutes of Meetings: April 21st, May 19th, and June 16th, 1920 | 261 |
| Psychology in Relation to the Popular Story. F. C. Bartlett | 264 |
| The Statues of Easter Island. W. H. R. Rivers | 294 |
| Collectanea:— ||
| The Language of Gesture. J. D. Anderson | 70 |
| Incarnate Human Gods. W. Crooke. S. M. Edwardes | 72 |
| Miscellaneous Notes on Folk-lore.—The Collection of County Folk-Lore.—The Tale of “The Prince that didn’t exist.” G. A. Grierson | 74 |
| Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. Nelson Annandale | 142 |
| Sympathetic Medicine.—The Kuttichthan or Poltergeist of Malabar. Thiruvaltar V. Thanu Pillai | 145 |
| Charm against Witches and Evil Spirits. Wm. T. M. Weeks | 146 |
| Bonfires in Norway. Kristian Bugge | 147 |
| Some Experiments on the Reproduction of Folk-Stories. J. D. Anderson | 151 |
| The Six Simpletons and other Stories. J. D. Anderson | 144 |
| Beliefs regarding Death in Cumberland. J. W. Halton | 154 |
| Kentish Folk-Lore. J. Heather | 231 |
| Pilgrimages to the Holy Well and Ruined Church of St. Conal on the Island Inishkeel, Gweebarra Bay, Co. Donegal. J. H. Hutton | 231 |
| Horseshoes. D. Townshend | 233 |
| Some Kerry Notes. Eileen Boland. | 234 |
| Things seen through Glass. Wm. Self. Weeks, F.S.A. | 237 |
| A Case of Foundation Sacrifice | 238 |
| The Folk-Lore of Somerset | 239 |
| Glastonbury and the Grail Legend. Mary A. Berkeley | 307 |
| Folklore Scraps. H. J. Rose | 319 ​ |
| The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. W. R. Halliday | 321 |
| Prentice Pillars: the Architect and his Pupil. W. Crooke | 323 |
| Correspondence | 155,334 |
| Reviews:— ||
| Mrs. Scoresby Routledge. The Mystery of Easter Island. W. H. R. Rivers | 82 |
| D. L. K. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer. Persian Folk Tales.—M. Bloomfield. Traditions of the Jains. W. Crooke | 156 |
| Eleanor Trotter. English Local Records | 158 |
| Harold Bailey. Archaic England. E. S. H | 159 |
| W. H. F. Basevi. The Burial of the Dead. R. R. Marett | 161 |
| Jessie L. Weston. From Ritual to Romance. Eleanor Hull | 163 |
| Rai Bahadur. Hindu Holidays and Ceremonials, with Dissertations on Origin, Folklore and Symbols. W. Crooke | 168 |
| W. McDougall. The Group Mind: A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology, with some attempt to apply them to the Interpretation of National Life and Character. R. R. Marett | 250 |
| A. H. Keane. Man, Past and Present. Revised and largely re-written by A. Hingston Quiggin and A. C. Haddon. W. Crooke | 253 |
| H. A. Rose. A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province.—Reidar Th. Christiansen. The Tale of the Two Travellers, or The Blinded Man: A Comparative Study. E. Sidney Hartland | 254 |
| Sir J. G. Frazer. Sir Roger de Coverley and other Literary Pieces.—Rai Sahib Dinesh Chandra Sen. Sajher Bhog. J. D. Anderson | 257 |
| Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod. Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. M. Longworth Dames | 325 ​ |
| R. Etheridge, Jun. The Dendroglyphs or “Carved Trees” of New South Wales. E. Sidney Hartland | 328 |
| Johann Jacob Meyer. Das Weib im altindischen Epos: ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. W. H. D. Rouse | 330 |
| Edward Clodd. Magic in Names and in Other Things. R. R. Marett | 331 |
| Short Notices:— |
| J. W. Wickwar. The Ghost World, its Realities, Apparitions and Spooks | 169 |
| Rev. E. O. James. An Introduction to Anthropology | 170 |
| Obituary:— |
| Dr. Vincent Arthur Smith W. Crooke | 87 |
| Dr. J. Drummond Anderson, F. W. Hasluck, and Miss Mabel Peacock | 336 |
| Index | 340 |