The circumstances attending the murder of Mr. A. M. T.Jackson in Nasik in December 1909 led to the raising of a smallsubscription among his friends, to be devoted to a memorial in someshape or form, showing the respect and affection with which he wasregarded in Western India. A large part of the fund then raised wasexpended on the purchase of his valuable library, which now forms apart of the collection owned by the Bombay Branch of the Royal AsiaticSociety. It was subsequently decided that the balance could not bebetter spent than in defraying the cost of publishing certain folklorematerials which he had collected and intended, at the time of hisuntimely death, to publish in the pages of the Indian Antiquary.These materials were the result of an enquiry set on foot by him aboutthe year 1900. His plan of operation was to forward, through the agencyof the Education Department, Crooke’s list of folklore questionsto schoolmasters in various parts of the Presidency. The question paperis given below; the replies form the raw material from which thesenotes have been compiled. For convenience they are divided into twoseries: Gujarat and the Konkan.

I desire at the outset of these introductory remarks to explainthat, when at the request of the memorial committee I undertook thetask of seeing these notes through the press, I did not contemplate anycritical handling of the materials found in the papers made over to me.I had neither the leisure nor the knowledge to carry out Mr.Jackson’s intention, i.e., to edit the notes carefullywith such criticisms and comparisons as his ripe scholarship would havesuggested. I make no claim, therefore, to have effected more than tohave rescued from the wastepaper basket a number of replies toquestions regarding the beliefs of the people in Gujarat and theKonkan. The notes as now presented doubtless contain much that istrivial, and

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