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INDEX,

" Pits and towns," Cornish boys* games, 60

Pixies, Cornish, 177

Place name, tradition of origin of, 29

Planetary signs worn as charms, Corn- wall, 197

Plant lore. West Indies, 315

Plants used by Japanese in New Year festivals, 155-156

Plantain, cure for cuts, 11

Plants, medical, used by Irish pea- santry, 11-13

Plough Monday, celebration of, 161

Ploughing superstitions, 192

Pole and ribbon dance of the Deccan similar to May-pole dance, 248

Political song, sung by negroes in Barbadoes, 10

Polo, game of, played by tribes of Ladakh, 282 '

Popham family, witches* ladder found in house belonging to, 1-5

Popular Tales and Fictions, their migrations and transmigrations, reviewed, 167-170

Porthgwarra, tradition at, 103

Potatoes, cure for sprains, 1 1

"Pray, pretty Miss," Cornish game, 47-48

Prayer book used as charm to keep away fairies, 182

Prehistoric theory of origin of folk- tales, 340

Prisoners' base, aboriginal Formosa game similar to, 149

Proverbs, Arabic, 263

Cornish, 15, 18, 22, 25, 34,

38, 95, 100, 106, 187, 191, 192, 195, 218

among fishermen, 188

Pyrrhic dance of the high Alps^ 312- 314

Quinsey, charm for cure of, 206

Ragwort, cure for rheumatism, 1 2 Kain, signs of, Cornwall, 191 ; in China',

128, 129 Rainbow, Cornish proverb about, 192 Raleigh (Sir W.), tradition of, at

Penzance, 109 "Rans des Vaches,'* air similar to in

Ireland, 333 Rats, Chinese superstition about, 129

Ctirnish superstition about, 217

Red, colour used at marriages in China,

232. 233

Red-haired families, antipathy to in

Cornwall, 101 Relationship on mother's side not

recognised, 227 Religious dances of Asia and Africa,

246-254, 273-314 Rheumatism, Irish cures for, 12, 13 charm for cure of, 207,

263

cure for Cornish, 31, 196

Rhymes, Christmas, 74

games, 325-327

Cornish, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23,

25, 38, 44 Cornish nursery, 211 ; mar- riage, 215 on fairies, 179-180, 183, 185,

186 Rice used at burials in China, 240,

241 ; at marriages in China, 233,

234, 235 Rickets, superstitious cure for, 211 "Riding," Cornish punishment for

immorality, 97 "Riding the hatch," ordeal called,

practised in Cornwall, 97 Ring made from silver collected at

church used as charm, 206

magical, worn by " pellars," 196

wedding, unlucky to lose, 216

Robin, superstitious beliefs about, 213 Rocks and stones, names given to in

Cornwall, 102-103

' legends of, Guiana, 317

Rope, witches' ladder made of, found at Wellington, 2, 81, 84

with which a man has been

hanged used as charm, 205

Roraima and British Guiana, folk-lore of, 315-321

Roscommon, Ireland, customs and tra- ditions in, 333-334

Rose Noble, cure for liver complaints, 12

jRugonath, festival in honour of, in Kulu district, Himalayas, 277-279

festival of St. Paulinus in

Italy resembling that of, 306-311

" Rules of contrary," Cornish child- ren's game, 52

Sage, cure for fevers, 13

St Anthony's Church in Meneage,

building tradition of, 27 St. Bartholomew, patron saint of

bees, Cornwall, 192 St. Breaca, tradition of, 17 St. Cleer, holy well at, 90