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Index.
Obituary, Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W.
E., 190 Ocnus, fable of, 369 Odin (^ij^atoWodan), as a wind god,
275 ; wit-contest with Wafthrudnir,
259
Odysseus, comparative lateness of tale, 98 ; story of, 100 ; parentage of, 100, 114, 115; his garth, 102; wife-winning, 100, 106 ; his realm and kinsfolk, 107-109 ; belief in his death and its results, loS-ilO, 1 1 7- 1 19 ; his wedding-bed, 131
Odyssey, the {see Homeric Poems), 107 ; component parts of, 99 ; folktales in, 120 ; marriage laws, etc., in, 113, 114; Penelope's web, 122
Old Norse words in Danish folktales, 207
Olive-tree bed in marriage ritual, 131
Olympia, Hera's image at, 124, 175
Omens, good and bad, in the Hebrides, 84, 85, 91 ; in the Lebanon, 18 ; in Scotland, 286
O'Neill, cited on Penelope's web, 122
Orange-colour sacred to the Hindus,
185 Oranges distributed at Hock-tide,
282 Ordeals, Greek, 178 ; Syrian, 16, 18 Oriental chastity test, 130 Orissa, worship of Indra at, 279 Orphic poems recited by the Lyco-
mids, 180 Osiris, in relation to immortality,
163, 164 ; identical with Asari, of
Babylonia, 338 Osman Aga, lagoon of, 176 Otrynteus' garth, 102 Oudh, stolen god, incident in, 1S4 Owen, Sir Richard, cited on the
shrew ash of Richmond Park, 331
Padstow, Tregeagle's task of rope- making out of sand at, 370
Paido-matronymic class rule among Australian aborigines, 263. 264
Pagan survivals in Lines., 186, 187
Pal-ly-yan, brother of Bunjil, Aus- tralian divinity, 307
Palm Sunday dances in the Lebanon, 8, 9 : trees, sacred, Sakai, Japan, needles offered to, 368
Panchayat, the, in India, 105, loS, 118
ranch phul Ranee, Homeric paral- lels, 121
Pandora and her box, 17S
Papers read at evening meetings, i, 20, 22, 24, 134, 135, 157, 195^ 225, 289
Papang, Australian divinity, 195
Parental control over widows, Ho- meric poems, 107
Parents, both living, essential to cer- tain ritual, iSo ; duty of shrouding the dead, 123
Parganya, Vedic rain-god, 278, modern representation of, 279
Paris, exogamic marriage of, 104
Paris, G. , cited on connection between Cuchulinn and Gawain, 265 ; on the Mule sans Frein 270 ; on transfer- ence of deeds from one hero to an- other, 348; on the need for absolute truthfulness in recording, 349
Paspati, A. G., gypsy story told to, 226, 229, 234
Patriarchy in India, 170
Patroklos, his shroud, 123
Pausanias, cited on chastity tests, 130, on Ocnus, 369
Patisanias^s Description of Greece, translated, with a Commentary, by J. G. Frazer, reviewed, 172
Peacock, E., wheel ceremony, 283 ; Miss M., Bells, 79 ; childbirth cus- tom, 79; fertilization of birds, 183; May Day in Lincolnshire,
364
Pea-hen, folklore of, 82
Peau d^Ane tale, magic dresses in, 129
Penelope, story of, 100 ; her web, 100, 121, 122, 124, 125, 129; 106, 108, 109, 112, 118, no; her marriage-bed, 131 ; hand offered to successful archer, 132; Catanese parallel, to her web, 257
Pennant, cited on blanket-spinning by unmarried girls in Scotland, 127, on the position of Scotch chieftains, 102
Perceval, 181, according to Wechss- ler, 346, et seqq. ; li Gallois, tale 345 ; Quest, the, Wechssler's ver- sion 347
Peredur, see Perceval
Perfume, hypnotic influence of, 1S3
Perkunas, Lithuanian rain-god, 279
Persia, harem of dead king appropria- ted by successor, 1 1 6