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Index.

Obituary, Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W.

E., 190 Ocnus, fable of, 369 Odin (^ij^atoWodan), as a wind god,

275 ; wit-contest with Wafthrudnir,

259

Odysseus, comparative lateness of tale, 98 ; story of, 100 ; parentage of, 100, 114, 115; his garth, 102; wife-winning, 100, 106 ; his realm and kinsfolk, 107-109 ; belief in his death and its results, loS-ilO, 1 1 7- 1 19 ; his wedding-bed, 131

Odyssey, the {see Homeric Poems), 107 ; component parts of, 99 ; folktales in, 120 ; marriage laws, etc., in, 113, 114; Penelope's web, 122

Old Norse words in Danish folktales, 207

Olive-tree bed in marriage ritual, 131

Olympia, Hera's image at, 124, 175

Omens, good and bad, in the Hebrides, 84, 85, 91 ; in the Lebanon, 18 ; in Scotland, 286

O'Neill, cited on Penelope's web, 122

Orange-colour sacred to the Hindus,

185 Oranges distributed at Hock-tide,

282 Ordeals, Greek, 178 ; Syrian, 16, 18 Oriental chastity test, 130 Orissa, worship of Indra at, 279 Orphic poems recited by the Lyco-

mids, 180 Osiris, in relation to immortality,

163, 164 ; identical with Asari, of

Babylonia, 338 Osman Aga, lagoon of, 176 Otrynteus' garth, 102 Oudh, stolen god, incident in, 1S4 Owen, Sir Richard, cited on the

shrew ash of Richmond Park, 331

Padstow, Tregeagle's task of rope- making out of sand at, 370

Paido-matronymic class rule among Australian aborigines, 263. 264

Pagan survivals in Lines., 186, 187

Pal-ly-yan, brother of Bunjil, Aus- tralian divinity, 307

Palm Sunday dances in the Lebanon, 8, 9 : trees, sacred, Sakai, Japan, needles offered to, 368

Panchayat, the, in India, 105, loS, 118

ranch phul Ranee, Homeric paral- lels, 121

Pandora and her box, 17S

Papers read at evening meetings, i, 20, 22, 24, 134, 135, 157, 195^ 225, 289

Papang, Australian divinity, 195

Parental control over widows, Ho- meric poems, 107

Parents, both living, essential to cer- tain ritual, iSo ; duty of shrouding the dead, 123

Parganya, Vedic rain-god, 278, modern representation of, 279

Paris, exogamic marriage of, 104

Paris, G., cited on connection between Cuchulinn and Gawain, 265 ; on the Mule sans Frein 270 ; on transfer- ence of deeds from one hero to an- other, 348; on the need for absolute truthfulness in recording, 349

Paspati, A. G., gypsy story told to, 226, 229, 234

Patriarchy in India, 170

Patroklos, his shroud, 123

Pausanias, cited on chastity tests, 130, on Ocnus, 369

Patisanias^s Description of Greece, translated, with a Commentary, by J. G. Frazer, reviewed, 172

Peacock, E., wheel ceremony, 283 ; Miss M., Bells, 79 ; childbirth cus- tom, 79; fertilization of birds, 183; May Day in Lincolnshire,

364

Pea-hen, folklore of, 82

Peau d^Ane tale, magic dresses in, 129

Penelope, story of, 100 ; her web, 100, 121, 122, 124, 125, 129; 106, 108, 109, 112, 118, no; her marriage-bed, 131 ; hand offered to successful archer, 132; Catanese parallel, to her web, 257

Pennant, cited on blanket-spinning by unmarried girls in Scotland, 127, on the position of Scotch chieftains, 102

Perceval, 181, according to Wechss- ler, 346, et seqq. ; li Gallois, tale 345 ; Quest, the, Wechssler's ver- sion 347

Peredur, see Perceval

Perfume, hypnotic influence of, 1S3

Perkunas, Lithuanian rain-god, 279

Persia, harem of dead king appropria- ted by successor, 1 1 6