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Index.

Orange-tree : amulets from, 232 ; in folk-medicine, 232

Ordeals : Arabia, 402 ; Sardinia, 389-90 ; Yoruba, 73

Orvietan powder, 495

Ossianic literature, 238

Owl : in charm, Japan, 193

Owre : calendar custom, 198

Ox : in cure, Japan, 190 ; deity as. Babylonia, 276 ; slaying punished, 275 ; warrior must own, Suk, 401

Oxford Book of Ballads, The, by A. Quiller-Couch, reviewed, 252-3

Oxfordshire : [see also Heading- ton : Maidensgrove) ; beliefs, 357 ; bonfires, 422

Paganhill : maypole, 451

Painswick : church clipping, 197-8, 203, 444-5 ; Feast, 454 ; well,

335

Palaeolithic races : beliefs and cul- ture, 27, 28-9 ; modern repre- sentatives, 121

Palestine : Baal, 277 ; death, angel of, 514 ; folk-tale, 514 ; portraits banned, 227

Palm Sunday : animals then born are piebald, Quebec, 345

Palsy : amulet against, 234 ; cure for, 496

Pan : in ceremonies, Assam, 465, 469

Panavia, Bight of : Anvambie, 168-9

Panda-ma-tenka : cure for dog- bite, 229

Paper : in riddle, Armenians, 472

Papers read before Folk-Lore Society, 2-5, 7, 146-7, 273

Papua or British New Guinea, by J. H. P. Murray, reviewed, 521-4

Parrot : in folk-tales, India, 144 ; as totem, India, 498 ; tribe as parrots. Brazil, 38 1

Parsley : in folk-medicine, 495 ; not transplanted, Devon, 350

Partridge, Miss J. B. : Cotswold Place-Lore and Customs, 147, 332-42, 443-57 ; The Game of " Thread the Needle " and Cus- tom of Church Clipping, 196- 203

Parturition houses ; Lower Congo, 348 ; Muppans, 36

Peacii : in magic, Japan, 188, 192

Peach-tree : in magic, Japan, 188

Peachwort : in folk-medicine, 490-1

Peacock : as totem, India, 498

Pear : in charm, Japan, 195-6

Pearl : in folk-medicine, 496

Peas : buried with infants, Assam, 464 ; eaten, Carling Sunday, 444

Peletory-of- the- wall: in folk-medi- cine, 493

Peony : as amulet, 235

Pepper : in purificatory rite, Assam, 468 ; at Shrovetide, Dorset, 198-9 ; white, in folk- medicine, 495

Perak : thunderbolts, 76-7

Perceval legends, 117-20

Peri Banou type of folk-tales, 94-102

Persia : cattle reverenced, 280-1, 290 ; influenced by Greece, 268 ; Manichaeans, 269

Perthshire : bonfires; Oct. 31, 419-20

Peru : thunder-god, 71

Phalgun : Holi festival, India, 425-6

Pharasa : marriage crowns, 86 ; rag-tree, 220 ; sacred spring, 219-20

Phayeng : death belief and cus- toms, 467-8

Pheasant : tabooed, Congo, 348

Phrygia : death for slaying ox or destroying implement, 275

Piedmont : {see also Cesana ; Val d'Ossola) ; exhibits from, 6

Pig : [see also Wild boar) ; amulet from, Japan, 189 ; associated with witch, Glos., 17 ; black, familiar spirit. Savoy, 127 ; in ceremonies, Borneo, 408 ; ghostly, Herefordshire, 384 ; in law customs, Congo, 462 ; in marriage custom, Congo, 461 ; Moslem belief, 278, 281 ; as symbol. Piedmont, 460

Pigeon : in amulet, Japan, 188-9 ;

sacred, China, 269 Pillow-god, Japan, 191 Pin : in charms, Donegal, 475-6 Pine-tree : amulets from, 232 ; in folk-medicine, 232 ; lightning in relation to, 481 Pipes exhibited, 3, 6, 8 Pipes, reed : Cappadocia, 84 Pitman, Miss E. B. : Scraps of English Folklore, 354-6