# Folk-Lore/Volume 4

Folk-Lore
A QUARTERLY REVIEW
OF
MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM.
[Incorporating The Archæological Review and
The Folk-Lore Journal.]
VOL. IV.—1893.
LONDON:
DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND.
1893.
LONDON:
CHAS. J. CLARK, 4, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.
CONTENTS.
I.—(March 1893.) :
| | PAGE |
| Annual Address by the President | 1 |
| Magic Songs of the Finns, V. Hon. J. Abercromby | 27 |
| May-Day in Cheltenham. W. H. D. Rouse. (Illustrated) | 50 |
| Sacred Wells in Wales. Prof. J. Rhys | 55 |
| Report on Folk-tale Research, 1892. E. Sidney Hartland, F.S.A. | 80 |
| II.—(June 1893.) ||
| Cinderella and Britain. Alfred Nutt | 133 |
| The False Bride. Miss G. M. Godden | 142 |
| English Folk-Drama, II. T. Fairman Ordish | 149 |
| Folk-lore Gleanings from County Leitrim. Leland L. Duncan | 176 |
| Balochi Tales. M. Longworth Dames | 195 |
| Obeah Worship in East and West Indies, May Robinson and M. J. Walhouse. (Illustrated) | 207 |
| The Oldest Icelandic Folk-lore. W. A. Craigie | 219 |
| The Folk. Joseph Jacobs | 233 |
| III.— (September 1893.) ||
| Cinderella in Britain. Joseph Jacobs | 269 |
| Balochi Tales, III. M. Longworth Dames | 285 |
| The Cow-Mass. Edward Peacock, F.S.A. | 303 |
| First-footing in Edinburgh. G. Hastie | 309 |
| First-footing in Aberdeenshire. James E. Crombie | 315 |
| The Glass Mountain. A Note on Folk-lore Gleanings from County Leitrim. Mabel Peacock | 322 |
| Szekely Tales, I. Translated by Miss P. Gaye | 328 |
| The Chicago Folk-lore Congress of 1893. Hon. John Abercromby | 345 |
| A Batch of Irish Folk-lore. Professor A. C. Haddon | 349 |
| Celtic Myth and Saga. Report of Research during the years 1892 and 1893. Alfred Nutt | 365 |
| IV.— (December 1893.) ||
| Cinderella and the Diffusion of Tales. Andrew Lang, M.A. | 413 |
| Some Recent Utterances of Mr. Newell and Mr. Jacobs. A Criticism. Alfred Nutt | 434 |
| Pin-Wells and Rag-Bushes. E. Sidney Hartland, F.S.A. | 451 |
| The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas. Edited and translated by Whitley Stokes, LL.D. | 471 |
| ​The Sanctuary of Mourie. Miss G. M. Godden. (With two Illustrations) | 498 |
| Melanesian Folk-tales. R. H. Codrington | 509 |
| Folk-lore in Wills. Leland L. Duncan | 513 |
| Balochi Tales, IV. M. Longworth Dames | 518 |
| Notes and News (March, June, September, December) | 110, 251, 394, 529 |
| Reviews: |
| Comparetti’s Kalevala. Hon. J. Abercromby | 102 |
| Troïtzky’s Vestiges de Paganisme. Professor A. C. Haddon | 105 |
| General Pitt-Rivers’ Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke. E. Sidney Hartland, F.S.A. | 239 |
| Frédéric Sander, La Mythologie du Nord. F. York Powell | 388 |
| Correspondence: |
| Mr. Hartland's "Sin-Eater", and Primitive Sacraments. E. Sidney Hartland | 106 |
| Mouse-Nibbling. W. H. D. Rouse | 106 |
| "Bogles" and "Ghosts". Mrs. Balfour | 107 |
| Chained Images. Miss G. M. Godden | 108 |
| Chained Images. Major R. C. Temple | 249 |
| Red-haired Men. W. H. D. Rouse | 249 |
| Lenten Custom in the South of Italy. Lucy E. Broadwood | 390 |
| Key Magic. W. B. Gerish | 391 |
| "The Sin-Eater." Gertrude Hope | 392 |
| Miscellanea: |
| Notes on Welsh Folk-lore. Mrs. Frances Hoggan, M.D. | 122 |
| Wedding Dance-Mask from Co. Mayo. Prof. A. C. Haddon | 123 |
| Drinking the Moon. W. A. Clouston | 124 |
| Sorcery: Melting Wax Images of Intended Victims. Smelling the Head in token of Affection. W. A. Clouston | 256 |
| Naxian Superstitions. W. R. Paton | 257 |
| Tokens of Death. W. H. D. Rouse | 258 |
| How to locate a Drowned Body. W. B. Gerish | 258 |
| The Overflowing of Magic Wells. Margaret Stuart | 259 |
| Immuring Alive. M. J. Walhouse | 259 |
| Folk-lore Items from North Indian Notes and Queries. W. H. D. Rouse | 396, 534 |
| The Sin-Eater. Mrs. H. G. M. Murray-Aynsley | 396 |
| John Aller. T. W. E. Higgens | 396 |
| The Flitting Gnomes ; The Monaciello of Naples ; Dwarfs in the East ; Dwarfs in the West. M. L. C. (M. J. Walhouse) | 400 |
| May-Day at Watford, Herts. Percy Manning | 403 |
| Smelling in Token of Affection. W. B. Hope | 537 |
| Folk-lore Bibliography (March, June, September, December) | 125, 263, 405, 538 |
| Folk-lore Society. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Council.—Proceedings at Evening Meetings (March, June, December) | 112, 253, 532 |
| Index | 543 |