# Folk-Lore/Volume 13

FOLK-LORE
A QUARTERLY REVIEW
OF
MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM
BEING
The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society
And incorporating The Archælogical Review and
The Folk-Lore Journal.
VOL. XIII.—1902.
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
DAVID NUTT, 55–57, LONG ACRE.
1902.
[L.]
​PRIXTED BY J. B. NICHOLS AKD SOXS,
PARLIAMENT MANSIONS,
ORCHARD ST., VICTORIA ST., S W.
CONTENTS.
I.—(March, 1902.)
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, November 6th, 1901
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, December 5th, 1901
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, January 22nd, 1902 Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Council 5 Presidential Address. E. W. Brabrook . 12 More Folklore from the Hebrides. A. Goodrich-Freer 29 Unlucky Children. H. A. Rose . . . . 63
II.—(June, 1902.)
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, February 26th, 1902
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, March, 26th, 1902
The Letter of Toledo. M. Gaster 115 Malay Spiritualism. Walter Skeat 134
III.—(September, 1902.)
Minutes of Meetings : Wednesday, April 23rd, 1902 225
Minutes of Meetings : Wednesday, May 28th, 1902 226
The Lifting of the Bride. W. Crooke .
Balochi Folklore. M. Longworth-Dames 252
IV.—(December, 1902.)
Minutes of Meetings Friday, June 20th, 1902 . 337 Minutes of Meetings Wednesday, July 16th, 1902 339 Minutes of Meetings Saturday, October 25th, 1902 339 The Modern Commercial Aspect of an Ancient Superstition E. Lovett ...... 340 The Origin of Totem Names and Beliefs. A. Lang 347 Discussion of the Above. A. C. Haddon, G. L. Gomme, R. R. Marett ...... 393 Australian Marriage Systems. A. Lang . 398
Boer Folk-Medicine and some Parallels, I. Alice B. Gomme 69
The Sister's Son in Samoa. A. C. Stanley 75
Rice Harvest, and other Customs in Ceylon. R. J. Drummond 77
Puli Rája, or the Tiger Prince. M. N. Venkatasvámí and W. Crooke 79
"Long Ju-ju." 166
Folklore Notes from St. Briavel's. Margaret Eyre 170
Harvest Customs. Alice B. Gomme, E. H. Binney, and Clara J. Jewitt 177
Boer Folk-Medicine and some Parallels, II. Alice B. Gomme and E. Peacock 181
Goblins. A. Lang, Elizabeth Taylor, and William Martin 183
Some Notes from North-Western India. W. Crooke 186
Scottish Charm against Witchcraft. Fred. R. Coles . 275
Burial Custom in Japan. J. C. Hartland and E. S. Hartland 276
Rice Harvest in Ceylon, II. R. J. Drummond 277
Unlucky and Lucky Children and some Birth-Superstitions. A. J. Rose 279
An Indian Ghost Story. W. Crooke 280
Myths Current in the Sahara Desert. W. J. Harding-King . 284
Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore. Percy Manning 288
Some Native Legends from Central Australia. M. E. B. Howitt 403
Folklore in the Kennet Valley. L. Salmon 418
Holiday Gleanings. I. Cornwall, Margaret Hall. II. Shropshire, F. A. Milne 429
How to Annul "Blood-Brotherhood." Charlotte S. Burne 430
Correspondence:—
History, Tradition, and Historic Myth. Alfred Nutt 84
Lame Gods. Louise Kennedy 88
Fire-walking in Southern India. A. C. Haddon 89
Tree Worship. A. Lang 90
Jingle Sung at Castleton. Mabel Peacock and Frank Kidson 91
A Written Charm. A. C. Bell 92
The Vessel Cup. E. Lovett and E. W. Clarke 94
Yew Wood. N. W. Thomas 96
The Sources of some Ballads in the "Border Minstrelsy." A. Lang 191
​Unlucky Children, H. A. Rose .... 197
The Sister's Son in Samoa. W. H. R. Rivers . -199
Yew. H. A. Rose ...... 201
Charm Against the Evil Eye. Charlotte S. Burne . . 202
The "Calenig," or "Gift." Mabel Peacock . . . 202
London Folk-Etymology. F. A. Milne and A. B. Gomme . 203
The Mumming-Play and other Vestiges of Folk-Drama in the British Isles. T. Fairman Ordish .... 296
The Collection of Folklore. Sidney O Addy, Charlotte S. Burne, W. Crooke, Walter Skeat, C. G. Seligmann, and John Roscoe ...... 297
Garland Day at Castleton: Addenda. S. O. Addy . 313
Eggs in Witchcraft. E. Peacock . . . 431
Butterfly Charm. S. O. Addy ..... 432
Reviews:—
Frederic Seebohm's Tribal Customs in Anglo-Saxon Law. G. Laurence Gomme . , . . 97
Alfred C. Haddon's Head-Hunters, Black, White, and Brown. W. Crooke ... .... 101
Gustaaf A. v. d. B. van Eysinga's Indische Invloeden op Oude Christelijke Verhalen. E. Sidney Hartland . .104
W. Wells Bladen's Notes on the Folklore of North Staffordshire. E. Sidney Hartland ..... 106
Isaac T. Headland's Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes. Alice B. Gomme ....... 108
Robert Petsch's Formelhafte Schlüsse i?n Volks-Märchen. N. W. Thomas . . . . . .110
R. Thurneysen's Sagen aus dem alten Irland. Alfred Nutt . 110
Joseph Hall's King Horn. Alfred Nutt . . .111
M. Schwarzfeld's Cilibi Moise, Practica si apropourile lui. M. Gaster . . . . . . .111
Ernest Crawley's The Mystic Rose. E. Sidney Hartland . 205
Ch. Letourneau's La Psychologic Ethnique. R. R. Marett . 209
Carl Horstman's Nova Legenda Anglie. E. W. Brabrook . 212
T. K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black's Encyclopœdia Biblica, vol. III.; and A. Keane's The Gold of Ophir, Whence brought and by Whom. W. Crooke. . . . .218
G. Dottin's Contes et Legendes d'Irlande, Traduits du Gaélique. Alfred Nutt ...... 220
Karl Amersbach's Licht- und Nebelgeister. E. Sidney Hartland . . . . . . .221
​Jessie L. Weston's Morien, Rendered into English Prose, and Edith Rickert's Marie de France, Some of her Lays done into English. W. W. Greg 222
John R. Clark Hall's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. Albany F. Major 223
Winifred Faraday's The Edda, I. The Divine Mythology of the North. Albany F. Major 223
Émile Durkheim's L'Année Sociologique, 1900-1901. E. Sidney Hartland 314
W. G. Wood-Martin's Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, Eleanor Hull 323
Whitley Stokes's Notes on the Togail Bruidne Dá Derga. Eleanor Hull 327
Ivor B. John's The Mabinogion. Eleanor Hull 330
Alfred Nutt's Cuchulainn, the Irish Achilles. Eleanor Hull 332
Lady Gregory's Cuchulainn of Muirthenme. Alfred Nutt 333
Seumas MacManus's Donegal Fairy Stories 335
Fernand Nicolaÿ's Histoire des Croyances, Mœurs, Usages, et Coutumes (selon le Plan du Décalogue). R. R. Marett 336
T. F. Henderson's Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Charlotte S. Burne 336
W. H. Furness's The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters its Festivals and Folklore. E. Sidney Hartland 436
General Augustus Pitt-Rivers's Antique Works of Art from Benin. Margaret Eyre 439
J. F. Hewitt's History and Chronology of the Myth-Making Period 441
L. B. Paton's The Early History of Syria and Palestine; and A. Duffs The Theology and Ethics of the Hebrews. A. H. Sayce 442
M. A. Potter's Sohrab and Rustem. W. Crooke 445
Jessie L. Weston's Sir Cleges, Sir Libeaus Desconus. W. W. Greg 447
Alexander Pulling's The Sin of Witchcraft 448
Index 449
Rules and List of Members.
Index of Archæological Papers Published, 1900.
​List of Plates:—
I. Charm found at High Fernley Farm To face page 93
II. Plan of the Long Ju-ju of the Aros To face„ page„ 169
III. Cottage with "Bogle "Charm, Nairnshire, N.B. To face„ page„ 275
IV. Specimens of "Trade" Charms To face„ page„ 338
ERRATA.
Page 169, line 11 from bottom, for numher read number. Page 174 n, for Albrigthon read Albrighton.
Page 192 n, for ** read *[*.