aborigines, savage, 219 Abyssinian pygmies, 241 African pygmy people, 241-2 aged, killing of the, 68-78 agricultural custom, 49, 163, 188, 192, 220, 311, 339, 352-3, 359 Ahts of Vancouver Island, 62, 228 All Souls, feast of, 331 allocation of folklore items, 340 altar superstitions, 198, 200 American Indian creation myths, 131, 141, 258 American Indian traditions, 144, 246 analysis of custom, 159 Andaman islanders, 218 animal traditions, 239 animals, domestication of, 258 antagonism in folklore, 340 anthropological conditions, 208-302 apparitions, 188 arm, right, left unchristened, 324, 325 arresting force of Christianity, 321, 322 Arthur traditions, 29, 33-34 Arunta people (Australians), 265-274 Ashantee creation myth, 141, 142 ashes, custom connected with, 160 aspirations of man, 145 association, law of, in folklore, 166-9 Aston and Cote, manor, 355 Australian evidence, 61, 142, 143, 156, 187, 213, 217, 230, 232, 251, 256, 258, 262-74, 347 Australoid race, 296 Avebury (Lord), quoted, 65, 215 Balder myth, 108 ballads, growth of, 13 baptism, 323-4, 325, 328 baptismal water, 197 barbaric conquest, 219 Beddgelert bridge tradition, 26 Bedfordshire evidence, 95, 287 bees, telling the, 162, 164 Bega (St.), 323 belief the foundation of myth, 140-6 Beowulf, quoted, 89 Berkshire evidence, 95, 162 boar as a totem animal, 287 Border civilisation, 31, 183-5 Boudicca, hare portent of, 288 bow and arrow, 218 Breton tradition, 21-22, 28 bridges, tradition concerning, 25, 26 Britain, totemism in, 276-96 Buckinghamshire evidence, 162 bull (white) ceremony, 161 Bund (Willis), quoted, 118 burial superstition, 198, 324, 339 Burmese evidence, 347 Bury (J. B.), quoted, 35, 345 Bushmen dances, 141