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INDEX,
" Pits and towns," Cornish boys* games, 60
Pixies, Cornish, 177
Place name, tradition of origin of, 29
Planetary signs worn as charms, Corn- wall, 197
Plant lore. West Indies, 315
Plants used by Japanese in New Year festivals, 155-156
Plantain, cure for cuts, 11
Plants, medical, used by Irish pea- santry, 11-13
Plough Monday, celebration of, 161
Ploughing superstitions, 192
Pole and ribbon dance of the Deccan similar to May-pole dance, 248
Political song, sung by negroes in Barbadoes, 10
Polo, game of, played by tribes of Ladakh, 282 '
Popham family, witches* ladder found in house belonging to, 1-5
Popular Tales and Fictions, their migrations and transmigrations, reviewed, 167-170
Porthgwarra, tradition at, 103
Potatoes, cure for sprains, 1 1
"Pray, pretty Miss," Cornish game, 47-48
Prayer book used as charm to keep away fairies, 182
Prehistoric theory of origin of folk- tales, 340
Prisoners' base, aboriginal Formosa game similar to, 149
Proverbs, Arabic, 263
Cornish, 15, 18, 22, 25, 34,
38, 95, 100, 106, 187, 191, 192, 195, 218
among fishermen, 188
Pyrrhic dance of the high Alps^ 312- 314
Quinsey, charm for cure of, 206
Ragwort, cure for rheumatism, 1 2 Kain, signs of, Cornwall, 191 ; in China',
128, 129 Rainbow, Cornish proverb about, 192 Raleigh (Sir W.), tradition of, at
Penzance, 109 "Rans des Vaches,'* air similar to in
Ireland, 333 Rats, Chinese superstition about, 129
Ctirnish superstition about, 217
Red, colour used at marriages in China,
232. 233
Red-haired families, antipathy to in
Cornwall, 101 Relationship on mother's side not
recognised, 227 Religious dances of Asia and Africa,
246-254, 273-314 Rheumatism, Irish cures for, 12, 13 charm for cure of, 207,
263
cure for Cornish, 31, 196
Rhymes, Christmas, 74
games, 325-327
Cornish, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23,
25, 38, 44 Cornish nursery, 211 ; mar- riage, 215 on fairies, 179-180, 183, 185,
186 Rice used at burials in China, 240,
241 ; at marriages in China, 233,
234, 235 Rickets, superstitious cure for, 211 "Riding," Cornish punishment for
immorality, 97 "Riding the hatch," ordeal called,
practised in Cornwall, 97 Ring made from silver collected at
church used as charm, 206
magical, worn by " pellars," 196
wedding, unlucky to lose, 216
Robin, superstitious beliefs about, 213 Rocks and stones, names given to in
Cornwall, 102-103
' legends of, Guiana, 317
Rope, witches' ladder made of, found at Wellington, 2, 81, 84
with which a man has been
hanged used as charm, 205
Roraima and British Guiana, folk-lore of, 315-321
Roscommon, Ireland, customs and tra- ditions in, 333-334
Rose Noble, cure for liver complaints, 12
jRugonath, festival in honour of, in Kulu district, Himalayas, 277-279
festival of St. Paulinus in
Italy resembling that of, 306-311
" Rules of contrary," Cornish child- ren's game, 52
Sage, cure for fevers, 13
St Anthony's Church in Meneage,
building tradition of, 27 St. Bartholomew, patron saint of
bees, Cornwall, 192 St. Breaca, tradition of, 17 St. Cleer, holy well at, 90
