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(13) Describe any ceremonies performed at certain times in connec 



tion with mountains. 

 (1G) Relate any traditions or beliefs about caves. 

 (19) Are any customs performed on islands not usually inhabited P 1 



Are they used as burial places ? 

 (25) Describe any practices of leaving small objects, articles of dress,) 



&c, at wells. 



(29) Are there spirits of rivers or streams ? Give their names. 



(32) Describe any practices of casting small objects, articles of dress, 



&c, into the rivers. 



(33) Are running waters supposed not to allow criminals or evil 



spirits to cross them ? 

 (39) Describe any customs at the choosing of a site for building, 

 and relate any traditions as to the site or erection of any 

 building. 



(42) Is there a practice of sprinkling foundations with the blood of ' 



animals, a bull, or a cock ? 



(43) Does the building of a house cause the death of the builder? 

 (48, 49, 50) Relate any traditions of the sun, moon, stars. 



(62) Describe the customs of fishermen at launching their boats. 



(63) Give any omens believed in by fishermen. 

 (66) Is it unlucky to assist a drowning person ? 



(84) What ceremonies are performed when trees are felled ? 



(85) Describe any custom of placing rags and other small objects ; 



upon bushes or trees. 



(86) Describe any maypole customs and dances. 



(87) Describe any customs of wassailing of fruit trees. 



(90) Are split trees used in divination or for the cure of disease ? 

 (98) Describe any ceremonies used for love divination with plants or i 

 trees. 



(105) Describe the garlands made and used at ceremonies. 

 (110) What animals are considered lucky and what unlucky to meet, 1 

 come in contact with, or kill ? 



(132) Describe any customs in which animals are sacrificed, or driven i 



away from house or village. 



(133) Describe customs in which men dress up as animals. 



(137) Give the names of the local demons, fairies, pixies, ghosts, &c. J 

 Have any of them personal proper names ? 



(139) Their habits, whether gregarious or solitary. Do they use t 



special implements ? 



(140) Form and appearance, if beautiful or hideous, small in stature, 



different at different times. 



(144) Character, if merry, mischievous, sulky, spiteful, industrious, 



stupid, easily outwitted. 



(145) Occupations, music, dancing, helping mankind, carrying on | 



mining, agricultural work. 



(146) Haunts or habitations, if human dwellings, mounds, barrows, j 



mines, forests, boggy moorlands, waters, the underworld, f 

 dolmens, stone circles. 



(190) Give the details of any practices connected with the worship of j 



the local saint. 



(191) Are sacrifices or offerings made to the local saint ; on what days; 



and when ? 



