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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