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Index.
review by, Sebillot's Litterattire
Orale de lAiivergne, 333 Pearls in Indian folktales, 437, origin
ascribed to, 438 Pellervo, 106-7
Pelzenichel customs, Heidelberg, 180 Penance, after death, 122 Perkele, Finn name for Devil, 329 Perkunas, thunder god of Lithuania,
329
Persia, folklore of ; the half-face demon, 172-3; water-wheel of, des- cribed in Indian tale, 430
Personification, weak among the Japanese, 316
Persons lucky to meet and the reverse, Hebrides, 271
Perun, Slavonic thunder god, 330
Phallic worship, traces of in Japan, 299
Phooka, Wexford, 362
Physiologus, Armenian book, 472,
475 Piebald colt of Heaven, Japanese
myth, 304-5 Pig, 365 with pigeon inside, 497 ;
form of, assumed by demon, 262 ;
as phooka, 362-3 Pigs, buried in walls, Denmark, 360 Pigeon entering house omen of
death, 122, 248, 333 Pigeon's egg, to annul oath on
Quran, 409 Piggiebillah, 493 Pill well, Cerne, 479 Pillar, central of house, in Japanese
myth, 299, 300 ; pillar gods of
Corea, 300 ; saint half-buried in,
361 Pillars, of Hercules, 230 Pins stuck into hearts of animals to
punish witch, 483-5, 488 Pipal-trees, talking, in Indian folk- tale, 417 Piru, Finn name for the Devil, 329 Pitta-pitta tribe, Australia, mode of
reckoning descent amongst, 235 Place names in Glengaryy and Glen-
qiioich and their Origin, by E. C.
Ellice, reviewed by W. A. Craigie,
244 Plane-tree where all the birds of
heaven roost, Greek folktale, 497 Plantain, talking, Indian tale, 417 Plants, amulets made of, 152 Plants {see also Fruits and Trees) in
folklore, see Aloes, Bamboos, Bar-
ley, Basil, Beans, Cabbage, Docken- stems. Dub-grass, Flax, Garlic, Gourd, Ivy, Laurel, Marsh-rag- wort, Mary-beans, Myrtle, Rice, St. Columba's armpit, St. John's wort, Speaking plants
Plate in sunstroke charm, 167
Plowright, Dr., May Ladies, at King's Lynn, {ill.'), 443
Plucking or flicking the dress of the beloved for luck, Cos, 180
Plums talking, Indian folktales, 417
Poets and their powers, Iceland, 460
Pohjola, Finnish land of gloom, 330 ; its mistress and her deeds, 107
Poker, red hot, to heat bath for new- born child, 457
Pomegranates in tithe-offering, Cos, 179
Porto Empedocle, swine slain and eaten on the Feast of the Assump- tion, 253
Portugal, crescent-shaped gold ear- rings in, 457
Potiphar story. Lizard and serpent version of, Indian folklore, 416
Possession by spirits, Indian, 422
Post with human head worshipped in Corea, 300
Powell, F. York, reviews by, Bugge's Home of the Eddie Poems, 450 ; Craigie's, Scandinavian Folklore, 459 : Hull's Ciichiillin Saga, 217 ; Thorkelsson's 'piodsogiir og Mimn- 77iiFli. Nyit safn, 461
Powers, the, of Evil in the Outer Hebrides by Miss A. Goodrich- Freer, 259
Praise, ill-effects of, 266, to combat, ih., 267
Praising a woman, unwise, Indian
folklore, 423 Prayer in Indian folktales, 405, for
son, ib., 393 Prayers, and crosses against the Evil Eye, 164; for the dead, Australia, 28, 34, 55 ; to imprison ghost, 121 Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns, The, both Eastern a7td IVestern, with the Magic Songs of the West Finns, Hon. John Abercromby, reviewed by C. ). Billson, 325 Presidential Address, (Britain and Folklore), by A. Nutt, 71
