Index.
403
Personality in clothing, 123, 128 ; in
spells, 13, 14, in names, 78 Petit Bossu, Le, French tale, 239 Petite Legende Doree de la Haute Bre- tapie, par Paul Sebillot, reviewed,
Phainops, no
Pharaonic Egyptians, origin of, 165
Phaeacian chiefs, fed by chieftain, 102
Phseacians, saga of, 99
Pheidias, 179
Philip Augustus, Iving of France, 357
Philoetius, 109
Philosophy of early man, 32, 38
Phoenician origin of incidents in the Odyssey, 99 ; sun temple at old Beyrout, 9
Phulkaris, or Jat wedding dresses, 128
Pig, blood of, in purification cere- monies, 124 ; sacrifices of, 179
Pins and metal in wells, by Lucy E. Broadwood, 368
Pirene, 178
Pithos, the perforated jar of Acanthus,
369 Pitta Pitta, natives of N. Australia,
study by Roth on, 262 Pitcher in Indian marriage customs,
140, 141 Pitre, Dr., his works on Sicilian folk- lore, 257, 258 Plantain leaves used in offering to
idols, 277 PlatDean serpent, the, 176 Ploughing round commune to prevent
epidemics, 256 Plunder of goods on death of a chief,
115, 116, 117 Polyandiy in India, 170 Porpoises, Tundun and wife changed
into, 309 Poseidon, animals associated with,
177 Potter, the, at Indian weddings, 140,
142 Poverty, tending to preserve folklore,
203 Presents, bridal and marriage, in
India, 137, 141, 142, 147, 148,
149, 152 Presidential Address, by Alfred Nutt,
20 Priestesses of Crathis, chastity-test for
130 Priests, the Selli of Dodona, 179
Primogeniture, not essential in Ho- meric king. 115
Proceedings, i, 20, 134, 157, 193, 224, 289
Procopius, cited on the ferrying of souls from Brittany, 272
Procrustes, his bed, 178
Professional classes in former stages of civilization, 39
Property among Kurnai of Australia,
319 Proverbs, book of, cited on secret
name, 259 Prussia, marriage customs, "jus
primce noctis " in, 367 Pullen, Canon, cited on alleged
modern human sacrifice in Italy,
362 Punjab, India, Mohammedan be- trothal and marriage customs in, 136 Puri, India, worship at, 279 Purification, ceremonies of, 124 Purple shrouds or urn coverings in
Homeric poems, 124 Pylos, 176
Qualities required by folklore col- lectors, 195
Queen Charlotte Islands, belief in death at ebb-tide, 272
Queensland, W. E. Roth on the aborigines of, 261
Quinipilly, Venus de, 184
Quintian, lover of St. Agatha, 257
Ra, the sun-god, 163, 164, 165 Raljbit-bones rejected by foxes.
Lines., 134 " Race," the term defined, 60 Racial admixture, as factor in pro- ducing folklore, 31 £/ seqq. Racing for the bride, 132 Raghunath, brass image of, 1 84- 1 85 Rags tied to trees, underlying idea in custom, 13 ; distribution of custom,
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Railways, second sight m connection
with, 376, 377
Rain, ceremony from the Murshi- dabad District of Bengal, by Sarat Chandra Mitra, 277 ; charm, Cyprus, 188 ; controlled by stones, 278 ; gods, Indian, 277, 278, 279 ; Lithuanian, 279 ; produced by touching the Brora cross, 278
Rainouartf French tale, 267
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