# Folk-Lore/Volume 32

FOLK-LORE
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. XXXII.—1921
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
WILLIAM GLAISHER, LTD., 265 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.
1921
[LXXXI.]
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW.
CONTENTS.
I. — (March, 1921.) :
| | PAGE |
| Minutes of Meetings: January 19th and February 16th, 1921 | i |
| Minutes of Meetings: November 17th and December 15th, 1920 | 1 |
| The Forty-third Annual Report of the Council | 3 |
| Revenue Account and Balance Sheet | 8 |
| Presidential Address. W. H. R. Rivers, LL.D., D.Sc. | 10 |
| Some Notes on Zulu Religious Ideas. A. Werner | 28 |
| II. — (June, 1921.) ||
| Minutes of Meetings: March 16th, April 20th, and May 18th, 1821 | 73 |
| The Pre-Buddhist Religion of the Burmese. R. Grant Brown | 77 |
| List of Members | 149 |
| III. — (September, 1921.) ||
| Minute of Meeting: June 15th, 1921 | 149 |
| The Isles of the Blest. W. J. Perry | 150 |
| The Derbyshire Mumming Play of “St. George and the Dragon.” Collected by Gwen John | 181 |
| The Provenience of Certain Negro Folk-Tales. Elsie Clews Parsons | 194 |
| Garo Marriages. Sir J. G. Frazer | 202 ​ |
| IV.—(December, 1921.) ||
| The Mingling of Fairy and Witch Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland. Canon J. A. Macculloch, D.D. | 227 |
| Mystical and Ceremonial Avoidance of Contact with Inanimate Objects. F. W. H. Migeod | 245 |
| Somersetshire Folk-Lore | 285 |
| Collectanea:- — |
| Legends from Tonga. F. E. Collcott | 45 |
| Catalan Folklore. E. Sidney Hartland | 58 |
| A Study of Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland. Thomas Johnson Westropp | 101 |
| Scheme for the Collection of Rural Lore in Wales | 123 |
| Rain-Making in India. J. D. Anderson | 123 |
| Canadian Folklore. H. J. Rose | 124 |
| Glastonbury and the Holy Grail. Jessie L. Weston | 131 |
| Garo Marriages. T. C. Hodson | 133 |
| The Succession of Saints. H. A. Rose | 135 |
| The Mystery of the Lamb's Head | 210 |
| The Taboo of Iron in Childbirth. M. C. Paddon | 211 |
| Folk-Tales from the Panjab. Sir Lucas W. King | 211 |
| Roumanian Tales. M. Gaster | 213 |
| The Corn Baby in India | 215 |
| Snake Stones. W. R. Halliday | 262 |
| Folk-tales from the Panjab. Sir Lucas W. King | 271 |
| Garo Marriages. T. C. Hodson | 273 |
| A Children’s Game and the Lyke Wake. Professor Frank Granger | 274 |
| Correspondence:— |
| H. Balfour. The Statues of Easter Island | 70 |
| Honor M. Pulley. The Gray Palmer and Hylda | 146 ​ |
| Reviews:— |
| W. H. R. Rivers. Instinct and the Unconscious. R. R. Marett | 60 |
| Von Dr. Géza Róheim. Spiegelzauber. E. Sidney Hartland | 63 |
| P. Saintyves. Les Origines de la Médecine: Empirisme ou Magie? E. Sidney Hartland | 64 |
| Edwin W. Smith and A. Murray Dale. The Ba-ila Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. W. Crooke | 67 |
| A. W. Cardinall. The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast: their Customs, Religion and Folklore. L. H. D. Buxtor | 69 |
| Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. A Garden of Herbs. W. Crooke | 69 |
| Agnes Gardner King. Islands Ear Away. C. Jenkinson | 136 |
| Rai Sahib Dineshchandra Sen. Folklore in Bengal. The Bengali Ramayanas and The Folk-Literature of Bengal. W. Crooke | 137 |
| D. Jenness and the late Rev. A. Ballantyne. The Northern D’Entrecasteaux. E. Sidney Hartland | 138 |
| Bertha S. Phillpotts. The Elder Edda and Ancient Scandinavian Drama. W. R. Halliday | 141 |
| R. R. Marett. Psychology and Folk-Lore. E. Sidney Hartland | 217 |
| Edwin Sidney Hartland. Primitive Society: the Beginnings of the Family and the Reckoning of Descent. E. N. Fallaize | 219 |
| Carveth Read. The Origin of Man and of his Superstitions. A. C. Haddon | 220 |
| Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy. Principles and Methods of Physical Anthropology. A. C. Haddon | 224 |
| Rev. W. Deane. Fijian Society, or the Sociology and Psychology of the Fijians. Sir Everard im Thurn | 278 |
| J. H. Mutton. The Angami Nagas, with some Notes on Neighbouring Tribes. W. Crooke | 280 |
| F. Ohrt. Danmarks Trylleformles. E. Sidney Hartland | 283 ​ |
| Short Notices:— |
| The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society | 283 |
| Jane Ellen Harrison. Epilogomena to the Study of Greek Religion | 284 |
| Index | 286 |