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Index.
Ox : hide, in laying giant, Norway, 332 ; white, used by Satan, Wilts, 80
Oxendal : old-time customs, 314
Oxfordshire, see Culham; awi/iMaidens- grove
Oya : in folk-tale, 83
Pace-eggers: Bury, 204; Northenden,
206-7 Padamelon, see Kangaroo Padmanabha, Indian deity, 212 Palestine, see Jordan river Palm nut : not eaten from palm struck
by lightning. Lower Congo, 475 ;
game with, Lower Congo, 462 ;
tabued. Lower Congo, 308 Palm oil : ordeal by. Lower Congo,
187 Palm-rat : name of star, Lower
Congo, 477 Palm Sunday : feasts, Wilts, 80- 1 ;
games, Wilts, 81 ; palm crosses,
Durham, 74 Palm-tree : [see also Caryota sobol-
ifera) ; native cloth from. Lower
Congo, 47-8 Pancake Day : see Shrove Tuesday Panchatantra, 504-9 Panther : in folk-tale, Basutos, 446 Papers read at meetings of P"olk-Lore
Society, 1-2, 6-7, 129-31, 385-6 Papuans : relation of Australian wor- ship and tongues to, 94-5 Paradise : river crosses way to, Assam,
404 ; souls as birds in Ireland, 359 Parkin, see Cakes
Parsley : unlucky to transplant, Wor- cestershire, 343 Parsnip : " Grand' Querrue " festival,
Guernsey, 117 Pastor, customs relating to, Norway,
317-8 Pata island : headquarters of Swahili,
433 Patrick, St., see St Patrick Pawns or pledges, see Pledges Pea : eaten, Carling Sunday, Durham,
74 Peace : sueing for. Lower Congo, 37 Peacock : tail as Easter-egg pattern,
Roumanians, 302 Peacock, Miss Mabel : Scraps of
English Folklore, 217-8, 489 Peanut : in communion rite. Lower
Congo, 57 ; firstfruit rite. Lower
Congo, 311
Pearl-shell, see ^ashell Peeblesshire, see Inverleithen Peg Powler, river spirit, 74 Peony : in folk-tales, China, 520, Japan, 251, 520; spirit of, Japan,
251
People of the Polar North, The, by K. Rasmussen, reviewed, 376-9
Peppering: charm against "over- looking," 65
Perceval, in Arthur romances, 114-5, 282, 501-3
Peredur, story of, 501
Persia, see King Niishirawan
Perthshire, see Auchterarder
Peter, St., see St Peter
Philemon and Glaucis type of folk- tales, 515
Philippine Islands, see Tinggian tribe
Pictography, 104
Pig : in Andamanese legend, 263 ; boar's tusks as Easter-egg patterns, Roumanians, 302 [plate) ; charm against " overlooking," Sussex, 65 ; eye-teeth as Easter-egg pattern, Rou- manians, 302-3 (//a/^); in folk-tales, Assam, 389, 41 1, Sarawak, 83-5; in Gothamite tale, Shropshire, 220; in local taunt, Staffordshire, 355 ; in mimetic magic, Philippines, 234 ; never sacrificed, Lower Congo, 480 ; shape-shifting by, Sarawak, 83-5 ; sometimes has spirit. Lower Congo, 62 ; tabued as food. Lower Congo, 309, 311 ; in war customs, Lower Congo, 34-5
Pigeon : feathers in bed unlucky, Durham, 72 ; in myth of origin of fire, Australia, 342 ; in sympathetic magic, Yorkshire, 483 ; unlucky omen from, Durham, 72 ; wild, in folk-tale, Nyassaland, 455
Pin : from bride's veil makes bride, Worcestershire, 345 ; in charm against witchcraft, Surrey, 491 ; crooked, luckv gift, Worcestershire,
345
Pine-apple : cloth from leaves, Lower Congo, 48
Pitman, Miss E. B. : Burial of Ampu- tated Limbs, 226 ; Scraps of Eng- lish Folklore, 216
Planets, see Venus
Plantain-tree : in charm against leopard. Upper Congo, 499 ; in folk-tale, Assam, 389 ; stalks used by nganga. Lower Congo, 191
