Index.
529
Priestesses, revelations by, Japan,
Priesthood, germ of hereditary, in
Australia, 3S3 Princess, rescued from monster, Greek
folktale, 497 Prison-breaking charm, Cos, 1 70 Prisoner, releasing ensures good luck.
Procession at Girgenti, 253
Prometheus, 230
Prophetic powers of Indian saints,
410 Propitiation, India, 406 Proserpine, effects on, of eating
underworld food, 301 Psalms as charms, 154, 170 Publications of the Society, 65, in
hand, 1899, 66, projected, 68 Puck equivalent to devil, 359 Pullen, Canon, cited, see Allen,
Grant, Pundjel, Australian god {see Bun-
jil), 7 Punishments, in Indian folktales,
441-2 ; in early Japanese myth,
306, 308 Puran Bhagat, story of, 406 Purgatory, souls released from on
Holy Eve, Ireland, 121 Puy-de-D6me, goblin in form of white
rabbit in, 333 Pyramids, as means of escape from the
Flood, 230 Pyrenean folklore, Bridge of the Soul,
349 Pytho, spirit of possessed by women,
154 . Pythonist of VVestwell, the, 155
Queen Mab, 218
Queen's County, Ireland, the dry ask
used as cure in, 252 Quicksilver inloaf to discoverdrowned
body, 114 Quince in tithe-offering, Cos, 179 Quoit, of Krishna, 418 Quran, Oaths on, India, 409
Rabbit, 222, in Tar Baby Story, 282 ;
white, ill-omened, 333 Rags hung on sacred tree as part of
cure, Cos, 181 ; Japan, 306 Rainbow, omen of death, 364 Rainbringers, Australia, 11, India,
399
Rain-making ceremonies of the Ba-
ronga, 227 Raja Dhol, vicarious cure in legend
of, 403
Hodi, 441
Jai Singh of Jaipur, his private
moon, 397, Rasalu, tale of, 427, his wise
parrot, 417, 441 Sarkap, and his infant daughter,
436 Rajput custom of saka, 442 Rakhas in Indian folklore, 412-3 Ram Singh Kuka, miracle attributed
to, 401 Rat, the, 116
Rat-charmer, Wexford, 364 Rath or barrow, burning but uncon-
sumed, bushes at, Wexford, 362 Rational, word as employed by Lang,
14, 347 Raun, rhyme of the Aoine, 272 Rauni, wife of Ukko the Fin god,
328 Red, in magic ceremony, 155 Redmond, P., The Little Red Hen,
116 ; Some Wexford Folklore, 362 Reed, -boat, child placed in, Japanese
myth, 299-300 Re-incarnation theories of the Arunta,
235. 237 Religion, as defined by Lang, 14,
346
Religion, The Place of Totemism in the Evolution of, F. B. Jevons, 369
Religious devotion, Darwen cited on, 11 ; ideas among savages, 2, 15
Reptiles in folklore ; see Ask, Eft, Newt, Serpents, Snakes, Toad, Tortoise, Turtles
Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks Phanician and Baby- lonians, by R. Brown, Junr., re- viewed by W. Crooke, 339
Restoration of persons and trees from ashes or decay, India, 398
Reviews, (for details, see Table of Contents), 87, 217, 325, 447
Rheumatism, paper prayers worn against, 154
Rhine, lower, cattle-swilching along, 180
Rhodes, Island of, modes of averting Evil Eye in, i8i
Rice-fields of the Japanese Sun- goddess, 304-5
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