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shifting into, Iceland, 422 ; sow in folktale, Wales, 312 ; sow in founding of Glastonbury, 309, 311, and Alba Longa, 3 1 1 ; sow, shape- shifting into, Iceland, 422 ; swine of Aphrodite, Hierapolis, 396
Pigeon : in annual ceremony, Grossel- fingen, 271-2; connected with gol- den bough, 447-8 ; as local nick- name, 22 ; in marriage custom, Podolia &c., 284; Maui in shape of, 133 ; valued, 285
Pigstie : slept in for dream revela- tions, Iceland, 415
Pilitor, Albania : origin of Kraljevich Marko, 113
Pillars, sacred : of Druids, 61 ; Malta, 7
Pilsen : female headdress, 251
Pixies, see Fairies
Place names, derivations of : England, 50, 65 ; Ireland 62, 67
Plants in folklore, see Broom ; Cress ; Entada; Flowers in folklore; Furze; Ivy ; Lady's Mantle ; Mistletoe ; Moss ; Mucuna ; Orchid ; Poli- gonum ; Rue ; Rush ; Selago ; and Vine
Ploughing customs and beliefs : pre- Milesian worship of, Erin, 165 ; Tuesday as right day, 46
Plum : acran, Cornwall, 57
Pocock, W. Innes : Cat's Cradle, 73-93 ; Some English String Tricks,
352-73
Podliassie : cock burnt at wedding, 282
Podolia : marriage custom, 284
Poetic preceded prose romances, 231
Poitou : marriage customs, 280, 284
Pojk : marriage custom, 283
Pokomo river : Hewat's Bantu Folk Lore reviewed, 248-51
Pokutia, see Huculs
Poland : {see also Lithuania) ; mar- riage custom for widower, 281
Poligonum : children named from, Euahlayi tribe, 245
Pollock, F. : reviews by, — Frazer's Lectures on the Early History of Kingship, 375-9 ; Landtman's The Origin of Priesthood, 375, 379
Pollux, see Dioscuri
Polyandry, see Marriage customs and beliefs
Polydeuces, see Dioscuri
Polynesia : {see also Society islands) ; kava, 481
Pontefract : " wassail box," 350 Pork : at wedding breakfast, Ober-
pfalz, 280 Portugal : amulets, 457-8 Poseidon Ilippios, 15 Praeneste : oracle, 67 Prague : ethnographical museum, 251 Pregnancy, see Birth customs and
beliefs ; and Conception President, election of, 4 Presidential Address, 4, 12-26 Prilep : ruled by Kraljevich Marko,
III Probus : oak as life-index, 323 Processions : Ascension Day, W.
Germany, 271 Prometheus as origin of crystal-gazing,
232-3, 374 Prophecies : of Thomas the Rhymer,
319
Provence : minstrelsy, 381
Proverbs : Egypt, 197 ; Scotland, 319 ; Welsh, 49
Pryderi, son of Pwyll, 143
Puberty rites : Baperi, 484 ; Para- guay, 123; tooth knocking out, 128
Publications of Folk- Lore Society, 8-9
Pulmonary diseases : burying place for dead from, Zulus, 484
Purse : in " wassail box," Yorkshire,
349-51 Pygmies, 120
Qasr es-Sayyad : offering to tamarisk,
199' Qubbet el-Hawa, Assuan, in droll, 195 Queen Guinevere, 340 Queen Languoreth of Cambria, 329 Queen Medb of Connaught, 160 Queensland : {see also Barwon ; Broad
Sound ; Cardwell ; and Diaman-
tina river) : tribal All-Father, 175 Quicken-tree : in tale of Diarmuid
and Grainne, 438-9, 448
Rag-trees : Egypt, 199
Rainbow, customs concerning, 279
Rain charms : France, 273 ; Grossel-
fingen, 272 ; rites, Moslem,
Morocco, 506 Rajputana : pedigrees of princes, 376 Ram, see Sheep Ramadan : sayings, 197 Ramsflue : saga of earth dwarfs, 134,
140 Ran, sea goddess, 396-7
