Index.
565
from animals, Sicily, 174 ; from birds, Bucks, 223, India, 216, 309-10, Ireland, 190, Scotland, 90, Sicily, 174, Yorks, 225-7 ; from breakages, Scotland, 89, Yorks, 226-7 > from clock, Yorks, 226 ; from death coach, Clare, 190, 192-4 ; from dreams, Assam, 262, 312 ; from fork, England, 226 ; from insects. Craven, 225, Scotland, 90 ; from knife, Eng- land, 226, Scotland, 89 ; from meeting on stairs, Yorks, 226 ; from meteors, Yorks, 227 ; from needle, Scotland, 89 ; from scis- sors, Scotland, 89 ; from shoes, Scotland, 89, Yorks, 226 ; from sitting on table, Scotland, 89 ; from soot on firebars, Yorks, 227 ; from sounds, Clare, 347, Sicily, 173-4 V from spilling milk, Yorks, 225 ; from spoons, Yorks, 226 ; from stockings, Scotland,
89 ; from taking last slice, Scot- land, 89 ; from tea leaves, Yorks, 227 ; from words of passers-by, Sicily, 174 ; of acci- dents, Yorks, 226 ; of answer to prayers, Sicily, 173-4 ; of birth, Assam, 312 ; of death, Ireland, 190, 192-4, 347, Scotland, 90, Wales, 118, Yorks, 227; of mar- riage, Scotland, 89, Yorks, 226 ; of news, Scotland, 90 ; of pro- posal, Scotland, 89 ; of quarrel, Scotland, 89, Yorks, 226 ; of visi- tors, England, 227, Scotland, 89-
90 ; of weather, Wales, 118 ; rati- fied by acceptance, 159
Orchid : from funeral wreath un- lucky, Bucks, 223 Ordeals : Congo, 448, 467 Orenda, see Mana Oreto river : (see also Palermo) ;
Decollati appear on banks, 174 Oribi : in folk-tales, Hausas, 203-4,
210, 361-2 Origine de I'Idee de Dieu, L', by
G. Schmidt, reviewed, 516-23 Origins of Popular Superstitions
and Customs, The, by T. S.
Knowlson, reviewed, 41 1-2 Orkney islands : folklore, 264 Oscilla, 142-3 Ossianic sagas : Clare, 485 ; Mac-
Neill's Duanaire Finn reviewed,
396-401
Ostrich : in folk-tales, Africa, 200,
495-6 Oswestry : St Oswald's well, 6 Oven : charm to bind, India, 330-1 Over-looking, see Evil eye Owenacluggan : meaning, 182 Owl : annual hunt, England, 30 ; omens from, Clare, 190, 484, India, 216-7 > '" septennial festi- val, Oxon, 32 ; white, as death omen, Clare, 190 Ox : flesh eaten if struck by light- ning, Zulus, 160 ; footprint in folk-tale, Armenia, 366 Oxfordshire : (see also Bladon ; Blenheim Park ; Kennington ; Wychwood Forest ; Woodstock) ; proverb, 18-9
Paiwant : folk-medicine, 314
Pakhangba, royal ancestor, Mani- pur, 81
Pakpattan : charm, 333
Palermo : The Cult of Executed Criminals at Palermo, by E. S. Hartland, 130, 168-79 (plates)
Palestine : (see also Beit Jala ; Bethlehem ; Beth-shemesh ; Ra- mallah) ; exhibits, 265-6 ; mar- riage customs, 265, 270-95 (plate)
" Palm," see Willow
Palm nut : in fetish charms, Congo, 459, 462
Palm Sunday : cakes and branches, England, 410-1 ; dainties, Bel- gium, 410-1 ; palm not in house before, Surrey, 224
Palm-tree : Zeus as god of, 133
Palm wine : in fetish ceremonies, Congo, 455, 459, 462 ; trinkna- nien, Togo, 259
Panipat, battle of, 415
Panjab : (see also Ambala ; Am- ritsar ; Datiya ; Dera GhSzi Khan ; Ferozepur ; Gujran- wila ; Gujrat ; Gurdaspur ; Gurgaon ; Hissar ; Hoshiarpur ; J^mpur ; Jech Doab ; Jhang ; Jhelum ; JuUundur ; Karnal ; Kasflr ; Kirars ; Lahore ; Ludhi- ana ; Mflltan ; Muzaffargarh ; Peshawar ; Rajanpur ; Rohtak ; Salt Range ; Sialkot ; and under names of villages) ; folk-medicine, 83-6, 313-34; Occult Powers of Healing in the Panjab, by C. S. Burne, 313-34
