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Index.
Ptarmigan : good omen, Hebrides, 49
Puberty rites : girl suspended in cage, 240 : Torres Straits, 103
Publications of Folk-Lore Society, 7-8, 26
Puli Raja or the Tiger Prince, south Indian folktale, 79-83
Pulverbatch ; cow dung poultice, 74; sheep dung as remedy, 75
Punans : not in primitive state of society, 383 ; totemism not ob- served, 372
Punjab : {^sec also Amritsar ; Dera Ghazi Khan : Derajat : Gur- daspur ; Hoshiarpur ; Jampur ; Jhelum ; Kangra ; Karnal ; Kasur; Khatris ; Kula ; Mozaffargarh ; Nahan ; Rajanpur ; attd Rohtak) ; child born after three of other sex unlucky, 64-7 : eighth child un- lucky, 68 ; firstborn beliefs about, 278-9 ; south-west, third birth con- ception unlucky, 64 ; twins, beliefs about, 279
Putney, folk-etymology of, 203-4
Queensland : (see also Belyando river; Cape river ; Fiaser's island : Koom- bokkaburra tribe ; Mungerra tribe ; and Thomson river) ; Haddon's Hcad-Hunters, Black, White, and Brown reviewed, 101-3 ; north, corpse surrounded by dust to detect totem of slayer, 365-6
Queen Victoria, death of, 27
Quetta : folktales from, 253
Quicken, see Hawthorn
Rabbit : witch as, St. Briavel's, 175 Rag trees, Baloches and India, 265 Rain : charms for, Torres Straits, 103 ; direction of in Deluge, Hebrides, 42 ; excessive, stopped by firstborn children, India, 63 ; omens of, St. Briavel's, 172 ; prayers to invisible beings for, Birria &c. tribes, 19 ; rain-making, Dieyeri tribe, 403 Rainbow : rhymes about, Hebrides,
42-3 Rajanpur: folktales from, 253 Raratonga : father and son fight for
property, 445 Rat : cat created to protect Lazarus
from, Hebrides, 34; charmed as
enemy of rice, Malay Penin., 159; gives power to heal erysipelas, Hebrides, 56 ; village sobriquet, ^385
Rattan cane : divining rod from, Malays, 155-6
Raven : bad omen, Hebrides, 49 ; knows whereabouts of lost, if dead, Hebrides, 35 ; in saying, Hebrides, 30 ; sent to dying Cuchullin, 35-6
Reading : witchcraft near, 426
Recording angel : of Larrakia tribe, 18
Red : bride covered with, Khonds, 242, sits on red chair, Manchus, 244 ; definite names for, Torres Straits, 102 ; dress in dream .sign of anger, Hebrides, 51 ; horse omen of death, Hebrides, 49; waist- cloth worn in worship of Hanuman, N. W. India, 1S8
Red animals, see Ant
Red ochre the blood of the Mura- muras, Dieyeri tribe, 417
Reed : not used for thatching, Hebrides, 31-2
Reincarnation beliefs : Arunta, 322, 356, 363 ; Haidns, 356 ; India, 236 : Thlinket, 355-6
Religion : among Arunta, 314-5 ; beginnings of, discussed by E. W. Brabrook, 16 ; not exception to general law of progress and con- tinuity, 13-4 ; Lang's Alakhig of Religion discussed, 16-23 • C. Letourneau's views on, 2 10- 1 ; in relation to astronomy, 441-2 ; in relation to magic, J. G. Frazer's views on, 14-6, 315, 323; in rela- tion to totemism, 354-5
Re-marriage, see Marriage customs and beliefs
Renal dropsy, cure for, Middelburg (Trans.), 70
Report of Council, 5-1 1
Reptiles in folklore, see Frog ; Snake ; and Toad
Reviews, 96-112, 205-24, 314-36, 433- 48
Rheumatism : cures for, Bloemfontein, 1 81 -2, Kennet Valley, 420 ; pre- ventive for, St. Briavel's, 173
Rhymes : (^see also Counting-out rhymes ; Folk-songs ; Nursery rhymes ; Place rhymes ; and Riddles) ; Hebrides, 30, 33, 39, 41-3. 45-9, 52-3
