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Group 2. Superstitious, beliefs, and practices: class «, gobliudom ; 

 class &, witchcraft; class c, astrology ; class (7, superstitions connected 

 with material things. 



Group 3. Traditional customs: class a, local customs; class h, fes- 

 tival customs ; class c, ceremonial customs ; class d, games. 



Group 4. Folk-sayings : class a, jingle, uursery rhymes, riddles, etc. ; 

 class b, proverbs; class c, old saws, rhymed and uurhymed; class f/, 

 nicknames, place rhymes and sayings, folk-etymology. 



Mr. J. S. Stuart Glenuie divides the study of man's history into tliat 

 of folklore and of culture life. The classification of folk-lore is iden- 

 tical with the psychological elements of folk-life corresponding (A) 

 with the most general facts of human consciousness: ^1) an external 

 world, (2) other beings, (3) an ancestral world; (B) and with the most 

 general facts of human faculty: (1) imagination, (2) affection, (3) mem- 

 ory. Corresponding with these facts of consciousness and of faculty 

 the three psychological elements of folk-life are (1) folk-beliefs, (2) folk- 

 passions, (3} folk-traditions, and the expressions of these are to be 

 found in (1) customs, (2) sayings, (3) poesy. Folk-customs, as expressive 

 of folk-life, may be more especially expressive of folk-belief or of folk- 

 passions or of folk-traditions, and hence folk-customs may be classified 

 as (1) festivals, (2) ceremonies, (3) usages (religious, sexual, and social). 

 Folk-sayings may be classified as (1) recipes (magical, medical, and 

 technical), (2) saws (proverbs, tests, riddles), (3) forecasts (omens, 

 weather signs, and auguries). Folk-poesy may be chissified as (1) 

 stories, (2) songs (mythological, affectional, and historical), and (3) 

 sagas. 



Elements of folk-lore and subjects of folk-lore: (1) Folk-beliefs, (2) 

 folk-passions, (3) folk-traditions. 



The expressions of folk-life and records of folk-lore: (1) folk-customs, 

 (2) folk- sayings, (3) folk-i>oesy. 



fd) Eeligious. r(l) Magical. ^ Stories C*^^ Mytlu.logical. 



1. Festivals -...-i (2) Sexual. 1. Recipes..^ (2) Medical. ^' s„jj,,g ' < (-') Affictional. 



[(3) Social. 1(3) Tecbuical. ' " ■"' 1 (3) Historical. 



f(l) Religious. f (1) Proverbs. 3. Sagas— | (1) Metor.s. 



-2. Ceremonies..^ (2) Sexual. 2. Savrs <( (2) Tests. Folk--^ (2) Melodies. 



I (3) Social. '( (3) Riddles. music. [ (3) Instruments. 



f (1) Religious. ( (1) Omens. 



3. TJsages •( (2) Sexual. 3. Forecasts <( (2) Auguries. 



i(3) Social. 1(3) Weather signs. 



We are not prepared to accept Mr. Glennie's dictum that folk-lore is 

 our lore about the folk, for that would really be culture lore, according 

 to his own definition. Several of the gentlemen have wisely started 

 their study with the two inquiries. Who are the folk and what is lore ? 

 Seiior Alverez remarks, " The word folk, German volk, Latin vulgus, 

 Italian volgo, Sanish vulgo, signifies not the whole of humanity, but a 

 portion of the human race, who possess a series of common signs, and 

 are really anonymous in contradistinction from that other series of men 

 who possess a notable personality." He would include practically all 



