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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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