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Panjab Folklore Notes, by H. A. Rose, 216-7
Panjgirain : folk-medicine, 314
Papers read before Society, 1-3, 8-9, 130-1, 265, 268-9
Pardhana : folk-medicine, 314
Parzival legend, 113
Peace : nganga ratifies, Congo, 461
Peacock : in amulet, India, 506 ; feathers in cure for hydrophobia, India, 83
Peacock, Mabel : Religious Danc- ing, 515
Peak district : folklore of, 20-5
Feists, 180, 476-80 iplate)
Pentacles, see Amulets and talis- mans
Pentecost island : father's sister,
43-5
Pepper : in charm, India, 85
Perceval legends, 244
Peredur, saga of, 243-6
Perkons, deity, Letts, 67
Perkunas, deity, Lithuanians, 67
Perseus saga, 230, 234
Persia : magical bowl, 131 ; rings, 266 ; sorcery, charm against, 163-4
Peru : ford rites, 159
Perun, thunder god, 67
Peshawar : folk-medicine, 321-2
Pharmakos, the, 137-8
Philippines, see Luzon
Phocis, see Delphi
Phoenicia : influences Crete, 135
Phooka : in County Clare, 183, 481
Phrixus, folk-tale of, 141
Pig : birth genua, Assam, 308 ; in chafifing custom, Banks' islands, 50 ; in charm, SirmOr, 507 ; fetish, Congo, 457 ; flesh tabued, Assam, 305-6 ; in folk-tales, Ar- menia, 366, Maoris, 128 ; in initiation ceremony. Banks' islands, 49 ; in title of father's sisters. Banks' islands, 45, 49-50 ; tusk as horse pendant, Servia, 3
Pike : gigantic, Clare, 480
Pin : wax figures pierced by, 129
Place-names : Ireland, 181-6
Plague : hymns against, Ireland, 418, 422-3
Plane-tree : in rhyme, 37 ; Zeus as god of, 133
Plantain : in divination, Scotland, 91-2 ; local names, Kirkcud- brightshire, 91-2
Plantain fruit : in rite against
weakly children, Congo, 464 Plantain stem : in rite against evil
dream, Assam, 262-3 Planting customs and beliefs :
sugar cane, Panjab, 217 Plants in folklore : {see also Ah ; Baharas ; Bissu ; Dintata ; Elemba-lemba ; Gaur ; Harmal ; Ivy ; Kurman vine ; Lettuce ; Lumbuzu ; Methrd ; Mundondo ; Munjila-njila ; Nlakaji ; Nsanga- lavwa ; Plantain ; Pumpkin vine ; Rosemary ; Sugar cane ; Tendi kia ndungii ; Verum) ; as totems, Australia, 391 ; New Guinea, 533 ; Wales, 1 1 7-8 Plate : omen from, Yorks, 226 Playing the Wer-Beast : a Malay
Game, by J. O'May, 371-4 Pleurisy, see Lung diseases Plough Monday, Derbyshire, 38 Pneumonia, see Lung diseases Poison : charm against, Ireland,
438 Polygamy, see Marriage customs
and beliefs Polynesia, see Cook's islands ; Fiji
islands ; Samoa islands ; Tonga Polyxena, slaying of, 138 Pomegranate : danger of eating, 155 ; in marriage custom, Pale- stine, 293 Pontefract : folklore, 225-6 Poplar-tree : Zeus as god of, 133 Possession, demon or spirit : by sayyids, India, 504 ; expulsion rites, India, 505 ; results from sin or carelessness, 155 Potato : as amulet, Suffolk, 7 Poulaphuca : meaning, 183-4 Poulnabruckee : meaning, 184, 478 Poulnapeasta : meaning, 476 Pregnancy, see Birth customs and
beliefs President, election of, 4 Presidential Address, 5, 14-41 Proteus type of folk-tales, 145, 156 Proverbs : Derbyshire, 23 ; Oxford- shire, 18-9 ; Palestine, 276, 295 ; Togo, 258-9 Psychro : cave near, 135 Puberty rites : Assam, 303 ; East
Africa, 123-4 Publications of Folk-Lore Society,
35. 40-1. 93-101 Ptica, see Phooka
