# Folk-Lore/Volume 16

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. XVI.—1905
Alter et Idem
LONDON :
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
DAVID NUTT, 55—57, LONG ACRE.
1905.
[LVI.]
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
CONTENTS.
I.—(March, 1905.)
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 17th November, 1904 1
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 7th December, 1904 2
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 1 8th January, 1905 3
Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Council 6
Annual Accounts and Balance Sheet, 1904 12
Presidential Address. W. H. D. Rouse 14
Midsummer Customs in Morocco. E. Westermarck 27
Some Notes on the Huculs. M. L. Hodgson 48
II.—(June, 1905.)
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 15th February, 1905 129
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 15th March, 1905 131
The Cimaruta, its Structure and Development. R. T. Günther 132
Folk-lore of the Wye Valley. Margaret Eyre 162
III.—(September, 1905.)
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 19th April, 1905 241
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 17th May, 1905 242
The Dancing-Tower Processions of Italy. Albinia Wherry 243
The European Sky-God; III., The Italians. Arthur Bernard Cook 260
IV.—(December, 1905.)
Minutes of Meeting: Wednesday, 21st June, 1905 369
Bavili Notes. R. E. Dennett 371
The Legend of Merlin. M. Gaster 407
The Religious Ideas of the Arunta. N. W. Thomas 428
Collectanea:— The Padstow Hobby-Horse 56 The Devil in Glencoe. Dora Bailey 61
Miscellaneous Notes from Monmouthshire. Beatrix A. Wherry 63
Folklore of the Negroes of Jamaica, VII., VIII., IX. . . 68
Additions to The Games of Argyleshire. R. C. Maclagan 77
St. James’s Day and Grottoes. F. G. D’Aeth 180
The Scoppio del Carro at Florence. Jessie L. Weston 182
Winning the Churn (Ulster). H. W. Lett 185
Fin MacCoul's Pebble. L. J. Dennis 186
A Cambridgeshire Witch. H. L. F. Jennings 187
Cutting a Waterspout. J. G. Piddington 190
Additions to The Games of Argyleshire. II. R. C. Maclagan 192
The Whitby Snake-Ammonite Myth. Edward Lovett 333
Veterinary Leechcraft. Edward Lovett, F. Barry, F. M. Webb 334
A Fisher-Story and Other Notes from South Wales. T. H. Thomas 337
Additions to The Games of Argyleshire., III., R. C. Maclagan 340
Notes from South Nigeria. R. E. Dennett 434
Correspondence:—
Riddle or Charm? F. Barry 98 “I’ll put my Foot in the Fire.” A. Lang 98 Group Marriage. N. W. Thomas 99 The Elder Tree. Albinia Wherry 100 Translation of Maltese Folk-Tales. E. Magri 100 All-Fathers in Australia. A. Lang 222 Mysterious Smoke. E. A. W. Peacock 224 Mock Burial. Evelyn Villiers 225 A Solution of the Gorgon Myth. F. T. Elworthy 350 Riddle-Story from the Wye Valley. E. E. Sikes 352 The Dancing-Towers of Italy. Mabel Peacock, Alice Oldknow, Charlotte S. Burne 461 A Correction. Arthur Bernard Cook 462 The Legend of Merlin; a Postscript. M. Gaster 462 Burial in Effigy. Mabel Peacock and Charlotte S. Burne 463 The Mock Mayor of Headington. W. Henry Jewitt and Charlotte S. Burne 464
A Swiss Charm. Lucy E. Broadwood 465
Reviews :-
A. W. Hewitt's The Native Tribes of South-East Australia E. Sidney Hartland .... 101 R. H. Nassau's Fetishism in West Africa and E. Allegret's Les Idees Religieiises des Fan. A. Lang 109 Carl Ribbe's Zwei Jahre unter den Kannibalen der Salomo Inseln. A. C. Haddon .... 113 George A. Dorsey's Traditions of the SkidiPaivnee. N. W Thomas ...... 116 William Thalbitzer's A Phonetical Study of the Eskimo Language E. Sidney Hartland .... 119 Sociological Papers., 1904. Charlotte S. Burne 119 H. M. Chadwick's Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature. F. M Stenton ...... 122 Journal of the Folk-Song Society. L. M. Eyre 126 Arnold van Gennep's Tabou et Tothnisme a Madagascar. E Sidney Hartland ..... 226 A. C. Hollis's The Masai., their Language and Folklore. N. W Thomas ...... 234 Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge's English and Scottish Popular Ballads. A. Lang 238 G. M. Stow's The Native Races of South Africa. N. W. Thomas 353 Gudbrand Vigfusson and F. York Powell's Origines LslandiccE L. Winifred Faraday .... 358 Joseph Frank Payne's E7iglish Medicine itt the Anglo-Saxon limes. Bertram C. A. Windle 362 H. F. Feilberg'sy>//.- Allesjcelestiden ; Hedensk, Kristen Julefest. W. A. Craigie ..... 366 Journal of American Folklore, Vol. XVH. N. W. Thomas 368 Emile Durkheim's L'Annee Sociologique, 1904. E. Sidney Hartland ...... 468 Salomon Reinach's Cultes, Mythes, et Religions. A. Nutt 475 J. A. Dulaure's LDes Divinites Generatrices. E. Sidney Hartland . .... 476 N. W. Thomas's Crystal Gazing. Edward Clodd 479 Richard Andre'e's Votive Weihegabeti des Katholischen Volks in Suddeutschland ..... 480 Paul Ehrenreich's Mythen mid Legendeti der Siidainerikanischen Urvolker. E. Sidney Hartland 483
Nelson Annandale's The Faroes mid Iceland. Edward Brabrook ....... 486
Henry Bernard and E. J. Dillon's The Shade of the Balkans . 489
Volkskundliche Zeitschrifteschau fur 1903 ; Hessische B latter
fiir Volkskunde ; Mitteilungen des Verbandes deutschen
Vereine fiir Volkskwide ; Schweizerisches Archiv fiir
Volkskunde ; Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft
ifi Wien ; Ellen and Paul Mitzschke's Sagetischatz der Stadt
Weitnar. N. W. Thomas . . . . '491
Anthropological Queries for Central Africa . . . 494
E. W. Blyden's West Africa before Europe. N. W. Thomas 495
Index
  Rules and List of Members.
List of Plates
I. Hucul Easter Eggs To face page 50 II. Wedding Invitation, Lemberg 51 III. Hucul Easter Dove 52 IV. Process of Colouring Easter Eggs Illustrated 53 V. Ornaments of the Huculs .54 VI. Implements of the Huculs 55 VII. The Padstow Hobby-Horse, 1903 ...56 VIII. " "56 IX. " "57 X. Sprigs of Rue (cima di ruia) 136 XI. Rue Plant, Lunaria, Assyrian Amulet, and Bologna Amulet 137 XII. Cimaruta, No. 23B IX. 142 XIII. Cimaruta .... 149 XIV. Simple and Compound Amulets . 156 XV. Compound Amulets (Cimarute) . 158 XVI. Cimarute (Typical Series) . 159 XVII. Cimarute (Aberrant and Degenerate Forms) 161