sacrifice (human), 174-6 savage customs in Britain, 112-16 savage incidents in folk-tales, 78-82 Scandinavian custom, 71, 223, 323, 328 Scarborough warning, 93-94 science, primitive, 130, 131 Scottish evidence, 20, 48, 49, 50, 56, 65, 67-78, 92, 149, 162, 181, 182, 198, 288, 289, 290 seal totem in Connaught, 280-2 Semangs of Malay peninsula, 218, 242-5, 267, 269, 270, 278, 297-302, 348 sermon quoted, 189 sex cleavage in human evolution, 251, 260 Shrewsbury Abbey Church, tradition, 43 Shropshire evidence, 43, 95, 162, 292 Sids, Irish, 341 Skene (W. F.), quoted, 114, 115, 344 sky-god, 106 Slavonian tradition, 54 snake stones of Whitby, 194 sociological conditions, 303-19 Somersetshire evidence, 45, 95, 162, 205 soul resident in backbone, 189, 190 Southampton custom, 96 specialisation of culture, 227, 233, 364 Spencer (Herbert), quoted, 117, 214 Spencer and Gillen, quoted, 143, 265 Spenser (Edmund), quoted, 4, 11, 177 Squire (Mr.), quoted, 33, 34, 101-3, 117 stationary conditions of life, 223, 224 state religion, 103-5 Stevenson (W. H.), quoted, 5 Stewart (J. A.), quoted, 145 stone circles, 107, 193, 194 Stonehenge, 107, 209 Suffolk evidence, 161, 162, 192 Sullivan (W. R.), quoted, 113, 120 Surrey evidence, 20, 162 survivals, 154-5, 319, 336 Sussex evidence, 41, 162 tappie, tappie, tousie, 92 telling tales, 149 Teutonic religion, 104 Teutonic tribes, 310 Thomas (N. W.), quoted, 214, 226, 232, 236, 265 threshold custom, 159, 334 toad in witchcraft, 203 Todas, loss of myth by, 150 totemism, 209-10, 252, 253-61, 274-96 transfer of superstition to different objects, 163, 325 treasure legends, 13-24, 30 trees, marriage of, India, 258 tribal life in tradition, 51-59, 103-5 tribal institutions, 307-18, 356, 364 tribe, the term, 234, 308 Tuatha de Danann, 101 Turner (Sharon), quoted, 113 Tylor (E. B.), quoted, 9, 133, 154, 200, 233, 239 Upsall, Yorks, legend from, 19 ver sacrum, 223 Vortigern, 62 water god, 105 well worship, 163, 164, 323, 326 Welsh evidence, 20, 26, 34, 162, 194, 200, 202 Westermarck (Dr.), quoted, 225, 239 Westmoreland evidence, 184 Wilde (Sir W.), quoted, 45, 101 William the Conqueror, Sussex tradition, 41 Wiltshire evidence, 44, 45, 95, 162, 287, 288, 354 witchcraft, 194, 201-6 wolf totem in Ossory, 276-8 women in early industrialism, 257 Worcestershire evidence, 162 Yorkshire evidence, 19, 20, 30, 78, 93, 162, 184, 194, 324, 325 Yule-tide, 328 Zulu folk-tales, 51, 64 Transcriber's Notes: This book contains some archaic and variant spelling, which has been retained as printed. Hyphenation has been made consistent where appropriate, without note. Minor printer errors (missing or transposed letters or punctuation, etc.) have been amended. The list of amendments is included below. Illustrations have been shifted slightly, so that they are not in the middle of paragraphs. The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the title page. Transcriber's List of Amendments: