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practice. For instance, I may tell you how an arrow-maker or 
potter produces his wares, and do it so graphically that a me- 
chanic may counterfeit them. But I have omitted the thousand 
and one dispensables which the lowly artisan considered indis- 
pensable, leaving them for the folk-lorist to glean 
Folk-lore is thus divided: 
I. FoLK-THovGHT. 
I. Tales of all kinds, sagas (world-god, eo elf, ghost-sagas, etc.), nursery 
tales, drolls, cumulative tales, apolog 
2. Folk-songs; 3. Weather-lore; 4. Prolite; 5. Local and personal saws 
ETS 6. Riddles; 7. Folk-speech. 
II, FoLK-wonN 
I. Worship, every practice designed to propitiate the powers influencing man’s 
2. hak 3. Folk-leechcraft; 4. Games; 5. Folk-craft. | 
Mr. Gomme gives the following scheme: 
I. Traditional narratives ¢ 
les 
(c) Ballads and songs. 
(d) Place legends, 
2. Traditional customs + 
‘(c) Ceremonial customs, 
(d) Games, 
3. Superstitions and beliefs : 
(a) Witchcraft 
(b) Astrology. 
(c) Superstitions, practices and fancies. 
4. folk-speech : 
(a) Popular sayings, 
(b) Popular nomenclature. 
(c) Proverbs. 
(d) Jingle rhymes, riddles, etc. 
This is amended by Miss Charlotte S. Burne as follows: 
Group 1. 7; Sgpreencten narratives : 
Class a. Fol 
a spate 
** c, Ballads and songs. 
** d, Place legends and traditions. 
an 2. Superstitions, beliefs and practices; 
Class a. Goblindom, 
' ‘© Db. Witchcraft. 
ween Astrology. 
a connected: with material things. 
