550
Index.
Orange-tree : amulets from, 232 ; in folk-medicine, 232
Ordeals : Arabia, 402 ; Sardinia, 389-90 ; Yoruba, 73
Orvietan powder, 495
Ossianic literature, 238
Owl : in charm, Japan, 193
Owre : calendar custom, 198
Ox : in cure, Japan, 190 ; deity as. Babylonia, 276 ; slaying punished, 275 ; warrior must own, Suk, 401
Oxford Book of Ballads, The, by A. Quiller-Couch, reviewed, 252-3
Oxfordshire : [see also Heading- ton : Maidensgrove) ; beliefs, 357 ; bonfires, 422
Paganhill : maypole, 451
Painswick : church clipping, 197-8, 203, 444-5 ; Feast, 454 ; well,
335
Palaeolithic races : beliefs and cul- ture, 27, 28-9 ; modern repre- sentatives, 121
Palestine : Baal, 277 ; death, angel of, 514 ; folk-tale, 514 ; portraits banned, 227
Palm Sunday : animals then born are piebald, Quebec, 345
Palsy : amulet against, 234 ; cure for, 496
Pan : in ceremonies, Assam, 465, 469
Panavia, Bight of : Anvambie, 168-9
Panda-ma-tenka : cure for dog- bite, 229
Paper : in riddle, Armenians, 472
Papers read before Folk-Lore Society, 2-5, 7, 146-7, 273
Papua or British New Guinea, by J. H. P. Murray, reviewed, 521-4
Parrot : in folk-tales, India, 144 ; as totem, India, 498 ; tribe as parrots. Brazil, 38 1
Parsley : in folk-medicine, 495 ; not transplanted, Devon, 350
Partridge, Miss J. B. : Cotswold Place-Lore and Customs, 147, 332-42, 443-57 ; The Game of " Thread the Needle " and Cus- tom of Church Clipping, 196- 203
Parturition houses ; Lower Congo, 348 ; Muppans, 36
Peacii : in magic, Japan, 188, 192
Peach-tree : in magic, Japan, 188
Peachwort : in folk-medicine, 490-1
Peacock : as totem, India, 498
Pear : in charm, Japan, 195-6
Pearl : in folk-medicine, 496
Peas : buried with infants, Assam, 464 ; eaten, Carling Sunday, 444
Peletory-of- the- wall: in folk-medi- cine, 493
Peony : as amulet, 235
Pepper : in purificatory rite, Assam, 468 ; at Shrovetide, Dorset, 198-9 ; white, in folk- medicine, 495
Perak : thunderbolts, 76-7
Perceval legends, 117-20
Peri Banou type of folk-tales, 94-102
Persia : cattle reverenced, 280-1, 290 ; influenced by Greece, 268 ; Manichaeans, 269
Perthshire : bonfires; Oct. 31, 419-20
Peru : thunder-god, 71
Phalgun : Holi festival, India, 425-6
Pharasa : marriage crowns, 86 ; rag-tree, 220 ; sacred spring, 219-20
Phayeng : death belief and cus- toms, 467-8
Pheasant : tabooed, Congo, 348
Phrygia : death for slaying ox or destroying implement, 275
Piedmont : {see also Cesana ; Val d'Ossola) ; exhibits from, 6
Pig : [see also Wild boar) ; amulet from, Japan, 189 ; associated with witch, Glos., 17 ; black, familiar spirit. Savoy, 127 ; in ceremonies, Borneo, 408 ; ghostly, Herefordshire, 384 ; in law customs, Congo, 462 ; in marriage custom, Congo, 461 ; Moslem belief, 278, 281 ; as symbol. Piedmont, 460
Pigeon : in amulet, Japan, 188-9 ;
sacred, China, 269 Pillow-god, Japan, 191 Pin : in charms, Donegal, 475-6 Pine-tree : amulets from, 232 ; in folk-medicine, 232 ; lightning in relation to, 481 Pipes exhibited, 3, 6, 8 Pipes, reed : Cappadocia, 84 Pitman, Miss E. B. : Scraps of English Folklore, 354-6
