154913

THE

FOLK-LORE RECORD,

VOL. IV.

CONTAINING-

THE ARYAN EXPULSION-AND-RETURN FORMULA IN THE FOLK-

AND HERO-TALES OF THE CELTS. By ALFRED NUTT.

SOME ADDITIONAL FOLK-LORE FROM MADAGASCAR.
Reverend JAMES SIBREE, Junior.

By the

SLAVONIC FOLK-LORE. By the Reverend W. S. LACH-SZYRMA.

EUPHEMISM AND TABU IN CHINA. By the Reverend HILDERIC

FRIEND.

FOLK-LORE FROM THE UNITED STATES. BY WILLIAM GEORGE

BLACK.

NOTES ON IRISH FOLK-LORE. By G. H. KINAHAN, M.R.I.A.

WEATHER PROVERBS AND SAYINGS NOT CONTAINED IN IN-

WARDS' OR SWAINSON'S BOOKS. By C. W. EMPSON.

NOTES ON INDIAN FOLK-LORE By WILLIAM CROOKE.

TRANSLATION:-

PORTUGUESE STORIES. By Miss HENRIQUETA MONTEIRO.

REPRINTS :-

PROVERBS: FROM "THE PRAISE OF YORKSHIRE ALE," 1697.

AMULETS IN SCOTLAND. Communicated by JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S.

NOTES, QUERIES, NOTICES, AND NEWS.

APPENDIX: THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1880.

INDEX.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY,
BY MESSRS. NICHOLS & SONS,

25, PARLIAMENT STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.

THE ARYAN EXPULSION-AND-RETURN

FORMULA

IN THE FOLK AND HERO TALES OF THE CELTS.

BOOKS QUOTED.

[Von Hahn. Sagwissenschaftliche Studien von Dr. J. G. von Hahn. Jena, 1876.

Campbell. Popular Tales of the West Highlands, orally collected by J. F. Campbell. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1860-1862.

Rassmann. Die Deutsche Heldensage und ihre Heimat von A. Rassmann. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Hanover, 1863.

O' Curry.

Lectures on the MS. materials of Ancient Irish History, by E. O'Curry. Dublin, 1861.

Mabinogion. The Mabinogion

Charlotte Guest. London, 1877.

Schulz. Die Arthursage.

linburg, 1842.

Preller. Griechische Mythologie von L. Preller. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Berlin,

1872-1875.

Kennedy. The Bardic Stories of Ireland, by P. Kennedy. Dublin, 1871. Kennedy, Fictions. Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, collected and narrated by P. Kennedy. London, 1866.

0. u. O. Orient und Occident

3 vols. Göttingen, 1860-1864.

herausgegeben von Th. Benfey.

Oss. Soc. Transactions of the Ossianic Society. 6 vols. Dublin, 1854-1861. Grimm. Kinder und Hausmaerchen.

3rd ed. Göttingen, 1856.

I. II. 16th ed. Berlin, 1879. III.

Cavallius Oberleitner. Schwedische Volksagen und Maerchen.. herausgegeben von G. O. Hylten Cavallius und George Stephens. Deutsch von C. Oberleitner. Vienna, 1848.]

Von Hahn's Arische Aussetzungs-und-Rückkehr-Formel comprises sixteen incidents, tabulated by him as follows: *

I. Hero born out of wedlock, or posthumously, or supernaturally.†
II. Mother, princess residing in her own country.

III. Father, god or hero from afar.

IV. Tokens and warnings of hero's future greatness.
V. He is in consequence driven forth from home.

VI. Is suckled by wild beasts.

*Von Hahn, p. 340.

+ Words printed in Italics represent additions to or modifications of Von Hahn's original formula.