We can gather, however, no definite information respecting the water-kelpie, the water-horses, or the water-bull, or of another anomalous animal called shelly-coat. Describing Lochlomond, Graham says:--“It is reported by the countrymen living thereabouts, that they sometimes see the hippopotam or water-horse, where the river Cudrie falls into it, a mile west of the church of Buchanan.” A river known as the Ugly Burn, in the county of Ross, springing from Loch Glaish, was regarded with awe by all the countryside, as the retreat of the water-horse and other spiritual beings. Shetland is represented as having possessed a handsome water-horse which, when mounted, carried the rider into the sea. Mr. Dalyell, writing in 1835, says, that the water-bull is still believed to reside in Loch Awe and Loch Rannoch, nor, he adds, are witnesses wanting to bear testimony to the fact. It was reputed to be invulnerable against all except silver shot; though no one had put it to the proof. In the Isle of Man certain persons who saw the water-bull in a field were unable to distinguish him from one of the ordinary terrestrial species, nor did the cows show any disposition to avoid him. But his progeny always turned out to be a rude lump of flesh and skin, without bones. The spirit of the sea was believed to be malicious, and capable of inflicting injury. Allusions are frequent to “sea-trowis, meermen, meermaids, and a number of little creatures coming from the sea” in response to spell and charm. Nor must we forget the practice of pouring out libations to the aquatic divinities. A century ago, in Crawford Muir, when a tenant was evicted and another took his place, he cut the throat of a black lamb and threw it into a stream, with a malediction both upon stream and lamb. To this futile department of human error we can, however, devote no more space. To treat it adequately we should need at least a couple of volumes as closely printed as the present. INDEX. Aborigines, the, of North America, 254. African Superstitions, 171. Ahetas, the, 153. Ancestors, Worship of, 220. Anecdotes of Khandikya and Kesidhwaja, 114. Apples, Halloween, 293. Ark-festival, an Indian, 90. Ashi, the Rabbi, 72. Asia, savage races of, 155. Babylonian Talmud, the, 72. Bouru, 146. Brahman Religion, the, 14, 84. Buddhism, 16. Buddhists, Prayer-wheels of the, 1. Buffalo-dance, the, 259. Cannibalism, 250. Caste, Brahman, 14. Cat, adventures of a, 218. Ceremonies, Hindu, 6; Eskimo, 275. Chandu, Palace of, 163. Charms, Scottish, 310. China, in, 119. Chinese offerings to gods, 139. Chinese temples, 132. Chunda Sen, Babu Keshub, 97. Chung-Yung, 123. Confucianism, 119. Confucius, Life of, 120. Court of Justice, an Eskimo, 277. Cumming, Miss Gordon, Experiences of, 1; quoted, 3. Daksha, sacrifice of, 103. Debendunath Tagore, 97. Devil-dancing, 91. Divination, 319. Dorians, the, 147.