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Robert Means Lawrence
  • Above and below the salt, 202-205.
  • Æsir, the twelve; demigods, 331.
  • Animals, superstitious dealings with, 279-311.
  • charms against, 292-297.
  • spirits assume the forms of black, 284-287.
  • legal prosecution of, 308-311.
  • Archangels, 321, 322.
  • Artisans, dwarfish, 28, 49.
  • Astrology, 19, 20, 248-253, 255-257.
  • Auguries derived from the sneeze of a cat, 212, 218, 219.
  • Augustine, Saint, quoted, 211.
  • Aureole or nimbus, 120, 121.
  • Avadanas, or Buddhist parables, 235.
  • Beelzebub, the fly-god, 283.
  • BhÚts, or malignant spirits, 160, 227.
  • Black animals not more vicious than others, 287.
  • Blacksmiths, credited with supernatural attributes, 40-53.
  • usually able to recognize the Devil, 50.
  • Board’s end, 202.
  • British Apollo quoted, 170.
  • Camels instinctively browse upon saline plants, 187.
  • Ceremonies associated with sneezing, 231.
  • Cernabog, the black Slav demon, 285.
  • Chah-Miran, the serpent-king, 304.
  • Changelings, 176, 177, 271.
  • Chinese pagodas have always an odd number of stories, 314.
  • ChkaÏ, the Mordvine sun-god, 276, 277.
  • Clement, Saint, 46, 47.
  • Copernican system, 248.
  • Cosmopolitan condiment, salt thus termed, 188.
  • Covenant of salt, 157, 164-166.
  • Crescent, the Turkish symbol, 21, 22.
  • Crescents and half-moon-shaped amulets, 18-26.
  • Cross, the, most potent of talismans, 99.
  • Crows, as foreboders, 285-287.
  • Cure for deafness, 219, 220.
  • Cyclops, the, 41, 49.
  • Dactyls, mythical artisans, 41.
  • Days, of good and evil omen, 239-278.
  • Egyptian, 239-243.
  • Roman superstition concerning, 243-245.
  • mediÆval belief in day-fatality, 124, 126.
  • Lesbos, charm against insects in vogue in, 305.
  • Lincoln Cathedral, 123, 124.
  • Lincoln Imp, 123.
  • Locusts invade fields, 295.
  • Loki, the Principle of Evil in Northern mythology, 331.
  • Lutins, mischievous imps, 179, 236.
  • Mano cornuta, or anti-witch gesture, 12-14.
  • Medical superstitions regarding days, 251, 252.
  • Metal working and sorcery, early association of, 53.
  • Mexican priests, use magical ointment as a charm against wild beasts, 307.
  • Moon, superstitions concerning the, 19-21.
  • Moon-worship, 19.
  • Moonwort, 25.
  • Nagendra, Cingalese serpent-king, 65.
  • Nail, story of the, 6, 7.
  • Neapolitan evil-eye amulets, survivals of ancient Chaldean symbols, 13.
  • Neck, or Scandinavian river-spirit, 38.
  • North, the unblessed heathen quarter, 122, 123.
  • Numbers, the luck of odd, 302-339.
  • early significance of, 312-314.
  • the number three, 315-318.
  • the number seven, 318-324.
  • odd numbers in witchcraft, 324-327.
  • odd numbers in folk-medicine, 327-330.
  • thirteen, 331-339.
  • NundinÆ, or market days, 245.
  • Oakham castle in Rutlandshire, 4, 5.
  • Odd numbers, 312-339.
  • Ormuzd, chief deity of the Parsees, 57, 223.
  • Passover, Feast of the, 7, 8, 257.
  • Perforated stones as talismans, 75, 97.
  • Persians, share popular distrust of the number thirteen, 336.
  • Phelo, Chinese idol, 155.
  • Popiel II., king of Poland, pursued by rats, 282.
  • Position of horse-shoe as amulet, 94-103.
  • Prascovia, Saint, 274, 275.
  • Prometheus, myth concerning, 227, 228.
  • Put-sign, Egyptian, 66.
  • Pythagorean doctrine of numbers, 312.
  • Rats and mice as avengers, 279, 284.
  • Rats rhymed to death, 305.
  • Raven, the, a portentous bird, 285.
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