# Folk-Lore/Volume 30

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. XXX.—1919
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1919
[LXXIX.]
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
CONTENTS.
I.—(March, 1919.) :
| Minutes of Meetings: November 20th, 1918; January 15th and February 19th, 1919 | 1 |
| Forty-first Annual Report of the Council | 4 |
| Presidential Address—A. C. Haddon | 10 |
| The Chinese Isles of the Blest—Major W. Perceval Yetts | 35 |
| Customary Restraints on Celibacy. H. A. Rose | 63 |
| Folk-lore in the Old Testament. M. Gaster | 71 |
| II.—(June, 1919.) ||
| Minutes of Meetings: Wednesday, 19th March, 1919; Wednesday, 16th April, 1919 | 87 |
| Customs connected with Death and Burial among the Roumanians. Mrs. A. Murgoci | 89 |
| The Problem of the Gipsies. Dr. F. W. Bussell | 103 |
| III.—(September, 1919.) ||
| Minutes of Meetings: May 21st, 1919; June 18th, 1919 | 167 |
| Some Magical Applications of Brooms in Japan. W. L. Hildburg | 169 |
| Santiago: The Evolution of a Patron Saint. Harold Peake | 208 |
| ​IV.—(December, 1919.) ||
| The Folk Life of Afghanistan. Ikbal Ali Shah | 246 |
| The Cults of the Mother Goddesses in India. W. Crooke | 282 |
| Collectanea:— ||
| An Ancient Irish Bell.—Child Rowland in “King Lear.” Joseph J. MacSweeney | 77 |
| Folklore Notes from Cornwall. Alfred Adams | 130 |
| Folklore from the Orkney Islands. John A. Fotheringhame | 131 |
| The Interpretation of Survivals. W. Crooke | 132 |
| Noises from a Tomb. “Daily Mail,” 5th May, 1919 | 133 |
| Prentice Pillars: the Architect and his Pupil. F. W Hasluck | 134 |
| The Killing of the Khazar Kings. M. Gaster | 136 |
| Folklore of the Bushmen | 139 |
| Notes on Welsh Folklore. Jonathan Ceredig Davies | 156 |
| An Italian Cattle Festival. Hubert A. Freeman, F.S.A. | 157 |
| Nyankopon and Ananse in Gold Coast Folklore. W. H Barker | 158 |
| The Provenience of Certain Negro Folk Tales. Elsie Cleus Parsons | 227 |
| A Tongan Theogony. E. E. Collocott | 234 |
| Folk-lore from Wales. J. R. East | 238 |
| Folk-lore Notes from Tipperary. G. N. Nuttall-Smith | 239 |
| Literary Influences on Tradition. Joseph J. MacSweeney | 309 |
| The Language of Gesture. H. A. Rose | 312 |
| Prentice Pillars. Architect and his Pupils | 315 |
| A Story which looks like that of an Architect killed after his Work | 316 |
| The Praying Palm of Faridpur. V. K. Raman Menon | 316 |
| A Sailor’s Saying. W. R. Halliday | 316 |
| Kentish Folk-lore. J. G. Frazer | 317 |
| ​Reviews:— | |
| C. W. von Sydow. Sigurds Strid med Fåvne: en studie rörande Hjältesagens forhällande till folkdiktningen.—Tobias Norlind. Skattsägner: en studie i jämförande folkminnesforskning.—Martin P. Nilsson. Die Entstehung und religiöse Bedeutung des griechischen Kalenders. E. Sidney Hartland | 165 |
| Duarte Barbosa. The Book of Duarte Barbosa.—Hamd.-Allah Mustawfi of Qasivin. The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-Qulūb.—Vincent A. Smith. The Oxford History of India, from the Earliest Times to the end of 1911—F. J. Richards. Madras District Gazetteer.—Joseph Davey Cunningham. A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej. W. Crooke | 242 |
| R. Torii. Études Archéologiques et Ethnologiques. Les Aïnou des Iles Kouriles. E. Sidney Hartland | 320 |
| R. P. Masani. Folk-Lore from India. Folk-lore of Wells, being a Study of Water-worship in East and West. W. Crooke | 323 |
| P. Saintyves. Rondes Enfantines et Quétes Saisonnières. Les Liturgies Populaires. E. Sidney Hartland | 324 |
| Short Notices:— ||
| Dr. Josef Baudis. Czech Folk-Tales | 247 |
| M. W. H. Weech. Ki-Swahili Folk-Lore | 247 |
| Solomon T. Plaatje. Sechuana Proverbs | 248 |
| Index | 327 |