Index.
527
413-4, 424; in South African tales, 224
Ogresses, Indian, 424
Oharai, prayer, Japan, 296
Oho-na-muchi, Japanese deity of Idzumo, and his guardian spirit, 309, his boast reproved by this spirit, 320
Okeus, Virginian god, his idols, 40
Oil in spell against Evil Eye, 164
Olaf Trygvason's guards, 220
Old Christmas {see also Epiphany), blaze night customs on, loi
Old English Social Life as told by the Parish Registers, by T. F. Thiselton Dyer, reviewed by E. S. Hartland, 475
Old gods, Scandinavia, 459
"Old gray noddle," song in Rugby mumming play, 193, music for, 194
Old Man of the Sea, 230
Old men, position of in Australia, 40
Olelbis, and the brothers Hus, American Indian story, 344-5
Olive, wild, in magic, 159, 161
Om, Hebrides, 272
Omens, (^see also Auguries, Death- warnings etc.), bad, cock-crowing at unusual hour, Hebrides, 262-3 i from the Greek Isles, 181 ; of death, 248, 264, 364, 480 ; white rabbit, 333 ! good and bad, in Indian folklore, 434-S ; from chance words, Greek Isles, 153
One-armed , and one-eyed folk in South African legends, 224 ; see Half-head
Oni or spirits of the dead, invisibility of in }a]5anese tales, 321-2
Onion, wild, hung on lintel to avert Evil Eye, 181
Oobi Oobi, site of Australian heaven,
54 Oorooma, Australian place of fiire, 28,
52
Oracles in Indian folklore, 430,431
Orage, Alfred, R. , The Game of Green Gravel, 112
Ordeals in Indian folktales, 428, 429 ; by fire etc., in Japan, 310
Oscar, 220
Osnianli Proverbs and Quaint Say- ings, by Rev. E.J. Davis, reviewed, 103
Otters, 354
"Our Father " in Australian mytho- logy, 10, II, 21-4, 35, 37-9,47
Our Lady's Eyes, colour of, 275 Overlooking, cure for, Dorset, 488
by the Devil, 358
Owl, grey, Eerin transformed into, 55 Oxen, wild, 354
Pacific folklore ; Wind holes and
wind-selecting, Hervey group, 250
Piiivola Saari, Finnish land of plenty.
330 Panjab, Legends of the, The Folk- lore in, Lt. Col. R. C. Temple,
384
P'anku, Chinese myth of, 303
Pantomimic dances, Australian, 42, 43, 44 ; Japanese, 307, 312
Papang, Australian God, equivalent to Father, 10
Paper prayer worn against rheuma- tism, 154
Papers read, 59, 60, 64, 71, 258, 294,
383. 444 Paradise, the source of the Nile in,
230 Parbati, 395 Paris, the stone devils of Notre Dame
cathedral in, 359 Parrots, in Indian folktales, 415 ; the
wise, of Raja Rasalu, 417, 441 ;
ungrateful, 416 Parturition-houses in Japanese folk- lore, 310 Passing through window in chapel to
cure sick children, Cos, 181 Paternity, Arunta view of, 237 ;
primitive philosophical conclusions
on, 131, 145 . Pathan hospitality 440 Paton, W. R., Folktales from the
Greek Isles, The Three Apples,
495, The Ball of Silk, 498, The
Three Heavenly Children, 499,
The Pumpkin, 500 Peach fruit, 317 Peacock, sacred in India, 440 Peacock, E., Superstitions relating to
the Newt, 251
F., Midnight Children, 115;
reviews by, Blakeborougli's IVit, Character and Customs of the North Riding, 349 ; Lawrence's Magic oj the Horseshoe, 456
M., A Crown of Thorns, 489 ;
Death-warnings, 248 ; The Little Red Hen, 361 ; Wall Burial, 361 ; Wind and Weather-holes, 249 ;
