# Folk-Lore/Volume 15

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. XV.—1904.
Alter et Idem
LONDON :
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
DAVID NUTT, 55—57, LONG ACRE.
1904.
[LIV.]
PRINTED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS, PARLIAMENT MANSIONS, ORCHARD ST., VICTORIA ST., S. W.
The Government of India has presented to the Society 20 copies of the Ethnographic Appendices to the Census of India, 1901, vol. i., which are now in the hands of the Secretary. Any Member who desires to possess a copy should apply for one to the Secretary. Applications will be dealt with in the order in which they are received.
F. A. MILNE,
Secretary.
11. Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, London, W.C.
CONTENTS.
I. — (March, 1904.)
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, November 18th, 1903 . 1
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, December 17th, 1903 . 2
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, January 20th, 1904 . . 3
Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Council . . .5
Presidential Address. F. York Powell . . .12
The Story of Deirdre. Eleanor Hull . . . .24
Arthur and Gorlagon. Translated by F. A. Milne and commented on by Alfred Nutt . . . .40
II.— (June, 1904.)
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, February 17th, 1904 129 Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, March, 16th, 1904 130 Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, April 20th, 1904 131 From Spell to Prayer, R. Marett 132
Toda Prayer. W. H. R. Rivers 166
III. — (September, 1904.)
Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, May 15th, 1904 241 Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, June 15th, 1904 242
Folklore of the Basuto. Minnie Cartwright . 244
The European Sky-God. Arthur Bernard Cook 264
IV. — (December, 1904.)
The European Sky-God, II. Arthur Bernard Cook 369 Notes from Armenia. J. Rendel Harris 427
A Witch Doctor’s Kit from Magila, East Central Africa R. Webb ...... 68 Wizardry on the Welsh Border. Beatrix A. Wherry 75 Folklore of the Negroes of Jamaica 87 Tibetan Charms. A. R. Wright 95 Some Superstitions of the Fifeshire Fisher-folk. David Rorie 95 Royal Succession in Yoruba-land. Harold G. Parsons 98 Personification of a River. M. Agatha Turner 99 A Corn-baby? Editor .... 185 Some Jewish Folklore from Jerusalem. A. Goodrich-Freer 186 Notes on Miss Freer’s Paper. M. Gaster 192 Pembrokeshire Notes. M. S. Clark . 194 Notes on the Stamford Bull-Running. Mabel Peacock 199 Bantu Totemism. G. W. Stow, A. Lang, and N. W. Thomas 203 Folklore of the Negroes of Jamaica, continued . 206 Greek and Cretan Epiphany Customs. R. M. Dawkins 214 Specimens of Somali Tales. J. W. C. Kirk . 316 Notes from the Upper Congo, III. John H. Weeks . 326 Tibetan Prayer-Wheels. A. R. Wright 332 Tibetan Drum and Trumpet. A. R. Wright. 333 The Shwe-hmu, or Burmese Tax-gatherer. David Shearme 334 Stories from Leitrim and Cavan. Bryan J. Jones 336 Northumbrian Social Customs. Charlotte S. Burne 341 A Buck Superstition. Editor 343 A Votive Offering from Korea. E. S. Hartland 447 Folklore of the Negroes of Jamaica, continued . 450 Dairy Folklore and other Notes from Meath and Tipperary A. H. Singleton ..... 457
Correspondence:— Dr. Durkheim on “Social Origins.” A. Lang 100 The Corp Creagh. Alice B. Gomme 102 A Wager Lost. W. Henry Jewitt 103 Braemar Saying. A. Macdonald 104 Midsummer Bonfires. A. Macdonald 105 Fifth of November Customs. Charlotte S. Burne 106 Myth Making. W. H. D. Rouse 107 Réponse à Monsieur Lang. E. Durkheim 215 Additional Variants of the Father-and-Son-Combat. Murray A. Potter ..... 216 Monmouthshire Notes. H. C. Ellis . 221 A Culture Tradition. A. Werner 344
Whitsuntide Fête, Bryan J. Jones . . 347
Mock Burial. A. Werner 347 " Back-footed " Beings. John Hobson Matthews 348
Monmouthshire Folklore. John Hobson Matthews 348
Charm against Toothache. Herbert M. Bower 350
Midsummer Bonfires. A. Macdonald 350
The Petting-Stone. W. Crooke 351
Eggs in Witchcraft. Edward Peacock 463
A Harvest Custom. H. W. Underdown 464
    Reviews : —
Heinrich Schurtz' Altersdassen mid Mdtmerbilnde. N. W, Thomas ...... 108 F. S. Krauss' Die Volkskilnde in den Jahre?i, 1897-1902. Alfred Nutt ..... 113 E. Hoffmann-Kayer's Die Volkskilnde ah Wissenschaft. Alfred Nutt ..... 116 Zelia Nuttall's The Fundamental Principles of Old a7id New World Civilisations. M. Gaster 117 Sir Edgar MacCulloch and Edith F. Carey's Guernsey Folklore Charlotte S. Burne .... 119 Charles Swynnerton's Romantic Tales frotn the Pu7ijdb. W. H D. Rouse ...... 124 Rene Basset's Contes Populaires d'Afrique. A. Werner 125 G. Herelle's Les Pastorale sBasques ; G. Crimi Lo Giudice's Vendetta Racconta Campagnolo Siciliano ; Magheria, Amore per Forza. J. B. Andrews . . . . .127
H. H. Risley and E. A. Gait's Census of India, 1901 W. Crooke ....... 222
Dudley Kidd's The Essential Kafir. N. W. Thomas. . 224
Casely Hayford's Gold Coast Native Ifistituiions. A. Werner 226
Dr. Otto Stoll's Suggestion und Hypnotis7nus in der Volker- psychologie. N. W. Thomas . . . .230
L. Radermacher's Das Jenseits im Mythos der Hellenen. Alfred Nutt ...... 232
E. W. B. Nicholson's Keltic Researches. Alfred Nutt . 234
L. Winifred Faraday's The Cattle-raid of Cualnge. Eleanor Hull. ...... 235
Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle. W. P. Ker ....... 239
A. Dieterich and T. Achelis's Archiv filr Religionswissenschaft. R. R. Marett ...... 240
A. C. Haddon and W. H. R. Rivers’, &c., Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. N. W. Thomas . . . . . 352
E. Durkheim’s L’Année Sociologique. E. Sidney Hartland 359
Axel Olrik’s Om Ragnarok. L. Winifred Faraday . 365
T. H. Weir’s The Shaikhs of Morocco in the Sixteenth Century. W. Crooke 367
Ganeshji Jethabhai’s Indian Folklore. W. Crooke 368
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen’s The Northern Tribes of Central Australia. E. S. Hartland . . . 465
Paul Sébillot’s Le Folk-Lore de France. E. Sidney Hartland 475
W. Carew Hazlitt’s Faiths and Folklore. Charlotte S. Burne 477
Anzeiger der Finnisch-Ugrischen Forschungen 479
J. Fitzgerald Lee’s The Greater Exodus 479
Walter Johnson and William Wright’s Neolithic Man in North-east Surrey 479
Herbert M. White’s Old Ingleborough Pamphlets (No. 1) 479
John Nicholson’s The Capital of the Yorkshire Wolds 480
Scottish Historical Review, Part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Celtic Review, Part 1. 480
Obituary:— Frederick York Powell. Edward Clodd 182
Index 481
Rules and List of Members.
Index of Archæological Papers Published, 1902.
List of Plates:— I. A Witch-doctor's Kit from Magila, East Central Africa .... 71 II. Tibetan and other Charms 95 III. A Corn-baby ? . . . . 185 IV. Necklace of Blue Beads and Two Eye Charms from Jerusalem . 189 V. Charm Necklaces from Jerusalem . 191 VI. Tibetan Prayer-Wheels 332 VII. Tibetan Drum and Trumpet 333 VIII. Stereoscopic View of West Australian Mask (Fig. 10 in Plate XV., Vol. XIV.) 368 IX. A Votive Offering from Korea 447