Index.
489
321 ; review by, Daenhardt's Natiirgeschichtliche Volksmdrchen aits nah Jindfei-n, 203-4
Pearce, E. K., Walton Farmhouse, Blairgowrie, 21 1
Peasant Lore from Gaelic Ireland, by D. Deeney, reviewed, 317
Pecek (Boh.), lizard respected, 240
Peewit, form of soul, 235 ; kept to protect house, 244 ; respected by Wotyaks, 241 ; transformed man, 236
Pegogha, in Syriac charm, 151
Penknife used against witchcraft, 108
Pennant Melangell, hare respected, 240
Pennsylvania, see Palmyra
Perthshire: {see also Blairgowrie) ; animals assume human shape, 236
Peru, see Cuzco
Phonography of folktales and songs, 428
Pharaoh, in Cairene folktale, 379
Pig, eaten ceremonially, 259 ; human being as, 236 ; hunted or baited locally, 20, 251-2
Pigeon, form of soul, 235 ; feathers not used in beds, 243 ; kept for divination, 244 ; respected locally, 241 ; sacrificed, 253 ; as substitute in witchcraft, 238
Pig-headed births periodic in Powis family, 234
Pine tree, in Greek charm, 147
Pinks, in Greek folktale, 1 1 5
Pitsligo, small tortoiseshell butterfly killed, 256
Pitt-Rivers, Lieut. -Gen. A., obituary of, 185-7
Pixies, 212-5
Plane tree, in Rumanian charm, 141
Plants in folklore : {see also An- gelica ; Bear's foot ; Bramble ; Briar ; Foxglove ; Laurel ; Maize ; «;/(/Wood nightshade); as ances- tors, C. Australia, 67 ; worship dis- cussed by R. R. Marett, 176
Pleurisy, blister regarded as charm in, Wiltshire, 347
Plough-horses, thread tied to hair as charm against evil eye &c., S. Uist, 439-40
Ploughing customs and beliefs : horses &c. sprinkled in spring, before first ploughing, Hebrides, 439 ; ploughing never begun on
Monday, 439; tufts of "reaping maiden" given to horses on first day, Hebrides, 441 Podo, see Lilith Poetry, Woden as god of, 85 Point Barrow, native beliefs, 17 1-2 Poland, lizard respected, 240 Polycarp, in Greek charm, 148 Pomerania : {see also Cammin ; and Stettin) ; cat hunted and sacrificed, 253 ; head of first cockchafer seen bitten off, 254 Pools, spirits of, Korea, 331 Porcupine, clan of Wyandots, 192 Porpoise, form of deity, Australia,
173
Porridge made annually from remnant
of seed-corn, Hebrides, 440 Portesham, Dorset, cure for epilepsy,
112 ; witchcraft, 107-9 Portugal, stockfish buried, 245 Possession by afrit, how treated,
Cairo, 389-90 Poultry ; {see also Cock ; and Hen) ;
tabooed, S. England and Wales,
243
Powell, F. York, The Life Index,
436 ; reviews by, Chadwick's Cult
of Oiliin, 81-8 ; Boer's Grettis Saga
Asniundarsonar, 406- 14 Powis, Brochmail, tusked king of,
234 Prague, bee respected, 239 ; cat
respected, 239 Prava, see Avezuha Prayerbook, used against witchcraft,
108 Pre-animistic Religion, by R, R.
Marett, 162-82 ; note by A. Lang,
318-9 ; reply by R. R. Marett,
319-21 Presidential Address, (Totemism and
Some Recent Discoveries), by E.
S. Hartland, 52-So Priesthood, The Ancient Teutonic,
by R. M. Chadwick, 268-300 Primitive man social, not solitary,
207 Processions, animals carried in, 257-8 Prophecy, practised by women among
ancient Germans, 274, 297-300 ;
uttered beside sacred springs, 300 ;
Western Scotland, 422 Proverbs, Cairene, 382-3 ; Gaelic,
439, 441, 443, 445 ; Hampshire,
434 ; Iceland (Grettis Saga), 410-
412; Korean, 326-7 ; Marathi, 98
