Orestes, how spurred on to vengeance, 441 f.;
with what penalties threatened by Apollo, 421
Orithyia, 601
Orphics, 38
Orphic tablets, 595 f.
Owl-faced Athene, 207
Owls, 309, 310, 311
'Ox-headed man,' The, (popular story), 278
Pagan customs, inveteracy of, 46;
deities, how denoted, 67
Palmistry, 329
Pan, 77-9
Panagia, portraits of, 301
Paradise, popular conception of, 519
Parga, evacuation of, 503
Parthenon, Christian use of, 45;
figures in east pediment of, 130
Patriotism of Greeks, 28
Patroclus, funeral of, 348 f., 529
Patroclus' ghost, 429;
why desirous of burial, 516
Pausanias, on human sacrifice, 353
Pedantry of Greeks, 30
Pelasgians, religion of, 522 f.
Peleus (see Thetis)
Pentacle, 113, 406
Perpería, 24
Persephone (see also Kore, Demeter);
'bridal-chamber' of, 595
Pharmakos, 355 ff.
Pheneos, Lake, 85
'Pheres,' 243
Philinnion, story of, 413, 433
Phlegon, story of revenant narrated by, 412 ff.
Phlya, mystic rites at, 587
Physique of Modern Greeks, 26, 27
Pig's flesh, taboo, 87;
spleen, used for divination, 325
Plague, personified, 22;
personified as trio of female demons, 124
Pollution, 425;
ancient conception of, 451;
of bloodguilt, 445
Polydorus, ghost of, 429
Polynices, doom of, 420
Polytheism, compared with monotheism, 40;
merits of, 292;
modern, 47, 48;
popular bent towards, 54
Pomegranate, symbolic usage of, 558 ff.
Poseidon, 75-77;
as healer, 46
'Possession,' by angels or devils, 68;
by devils, 144;
by the devil, as punishment, 406
Poultry, divination from, 312
Prayer, usually accompanied by offerings, 335
Predestination, 122
Priest, unlucky to meet, 306
Prometheus, legend of, 74
Prometheus' prophecy of Zeus' downfall, 552
Prytaneum of Athens, shape of, 96
Psellus, on divination, 321, 324
Pulcra montium, 167
Punishment after death, 419 ff.
Purification, from bloodguilt, 451, 483;
means of, 357
Purity, confusion of physical and moral, 37
Pythagoras and Zalmoxis, 351
'Queen of the Mountains,' The, 163
'Queen of the Shore,' The, 163
Quince, symbolic usage of, 558 f.
Rail (ornith.), 309
Rain-charm, 23
Rain-making, 49
Ram, as victim, 326
Rat, unlucky to meet, 307
Raven, 309
Re-animation (see also Resuscitation, Vrykolakes), 384;
of corpses left unburied, 449;
of dead body by the soul, 432 ff.
Religion, Achaean and Pelasgian elements in, 522 f.;
character of Greek, 2, 294, 361 f., 545;
complexity of Greek, 4
Religious feeling, dominance of, 5-7;
literature, absence of, 2-5
Resuscitation (see also Re-animation, Vrykolakes), 388;
of dead persons, how viewed by the Church, 402 ff.;
of dead persons, summary of Hellenic belief concerning, 434
Retribution, doctrine of future, 523;
exactitude of, 453 ff.;
law of, 435
Revenants (see also Vrykolakes);
ancient names for, 462 ff.;
ancient Greek instances of, 412 ff.;
as Avengers of blood, 434 ff.;
as Avengers of blood, summary of ancient belief concerning, 461;
as Avengers of blood, their traits transferred to the Furies, 460;
called up by sorcerers, 404;
contrasted with ghosts, 427;
different species of, 384;
distinguished from ghosts, 416;
exacting their own vengeance, in ancient literature, 438;
Greek conception of, 394;
harmless type of, 394 f.;
Hellenic conception of, 412;
in ancient literature, 430, 438 f.
Rhapsodes, 34
Richard, le Père, on vrykolakes, 367
Ridgeway, on cremation and inhumation, 491
Right hand, lucky, 312
'Riotings,' The, 226
River-gods, 277, 280
Rohde, on cremation, 492
rosalia, 45
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