Index.
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at Haxey, Lincolnshire, 72, Omens of Death, 377, quoted on Criminal- worship in Sicily, 199.
Peahen, fertilization of, 376
Pebbles in witchcraft. 7
Peatmoss as antiseptic dressing, 389
Peeling Horns of Oxfordshire Whit- Hunt, 311
Peitho, temple of, and idols carried from, 337
Pembrokeshire, folklore of, 375
Periya Verappa, brigand and Bhuta, 198
Persia, the Aryan migration to, 369
Peruvian storm-myth, 176
Petrarch, and the ' oversea-princess ' theme, 306
Philistines, fall of their god Dagon,
341 Philo Judteus, 340 Philological method of solving myth,
153-156 Philosophic thought, causes of its
progressive development suggested,
277 Phipps, Col. cited on Jagganath, 333 Phthisic, American cure for, 187 Physique and appearance of Donegal
peasantry, 12, 13. Pickering Castle and its builders, 2S0 Pins in witchcraft, 6, 97 Pipal tree, sacred, 330, 332 Pipe and tabour in Oxfordshire
seasonal festivals, 309, 310, 312, 314,
319 Plato in relation to Orphicism, 367 Plichting-Stane o' Lairg, the. 399 Plough Monday, communicated, by
J. G. Frazer, 184 Ploughing a sacred ceremony, 167 Pluto, image of, stolen for Ptolemy
Soter, 355 Polykrates of Samos, his dedication
of Rheneia to Apollo, 344 Polytheism, 168 Popular Religions, The, and Folklore
of Northerti India, by W. Crooke,
{new edition) reviewed. 269 Porphyry, on Egyptian threats to the
gods, 339 Porridge, legend of its introduction as
food, 385 Portents, see Omens. Poseidon, 261 Posidonius, cited on the agricultural
rites at Sena, 367 Potato, a stolen, cure for rhematism.
355, carried in pocket, cure for the same, 388
Poteen, first running a cure for rheumatism, 390
Pots, Pipkins etc. , see Jars
Poturaja, a god, treatment when angry. 352
' Poverty of the ground,' (herb) cure for hydropobia, 387
Powell, F. York, on the Svipdag tale, 291, on the Hjalmter saga, 304, review of T/ie Celtic Doctrine of Re-birth by Alfred Nutt, 365
Powell, Wilfred, quoted on New Ireland ghost-binding, 334
Power associated with size in un- civilised minds, 277
Prana-pratistha, Brahmanic ritual, 333
Prayer, Indian, of god-induction, 328
Pre-Christian Baptism, query concern- ing, 280
Pre-Christian Cross, its various meanings, 58
Presidential address, by Alfred Nutt, 29
' Priest Cullum ' and his daughter, 227, song against his wife, 228
Priesthood and sacrifice, 66
Primitive Culture, by Dr. E. B. Tylor, cited, 339
Proceedings, 10, 18, 19, 97, 131, 193, 194, 201
Procession of the spear of Kandas- wami in Ceylon, 337, of Poturaja,
352 Proteus, modern Greek version of
tale, 276 Psyche, in modern Greek folklore
276 Ptolemy Soter, and the stolen image
of Pluto, 355 Puck, 37, 42, 45, 50 Pygmalion, in modern Greek folklore,
276 Pyne, (Kate Lawless) Folk-Medicine
in County Cork, 179, A Burial
Superstition in County Cork, 180 Pythagoreanism, and the Re-birth
doctrine, 366
Qualifications for an idol-erector, 328 Queen's County, its medicinal folk- lore, 3S9 Quetzalcoatl, his image kept covered,
345 Quinsy, cures tor, 387
