INDEX.

Abbot of Unreason, [13].
Abnormal Appetite, [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [233], [311], [314], [316].
Abortion, [105];
produced by mistletoe, [105].
See also under [Parturition].
Aconite, used to poison panthers; human ordure the antidote, [244].
Afghans, flatulence regarded as a deadly insult by, [161].
After-birth, [216], [224], [226], [235], [236], [343], [354], [355];
a remedy for witchcraft, [215];
in philters, [224];
as an anti-philter, [354], [355].
See also [Therapeutics].
Agaric, [71], [77], [81], [82], [83];
the cause of fairy circles, [82], [83];
excluded from Brahminical dietary, [92], [109].
See also [Mushrooms].
Aghozis, a Hindu sect who eat human ordure, [40], [126].
Agnus Castus, [225].
Agriculture, [26], [80], [128], [129], [140], [180], [190], [191], [192], [193], [345], [350], [351], [353], [438];
taught to men by Saturn, [129];
urine and ordure in, [129];
cow dung used to make threshing-floors in France and Italy, [180];
religious rites in connection with, in China, [345];
catamenial women marched round the Roman fields, [450],—see also the description from “[Hiawatha];”
the touch of a catamenial woman ruined vines, fruit trees, etc., [353];
“fool ploughs,” [438].
See also under [Latrines].
“Aiguilette, nouer l’.” See [Witchcraft], [Ligatures].
Album Græcum. See [Dog Dung].
Alcohol, [39];
mixed with urine in drink, [39];
abstained from by Lamas while making sacred pills, [50];
invented by the Chinese, 2197 B.C. [75], [76];
obtained from mushrooms, [81].
See [Intoxicants], [379].
Alder. See [Tree and Plant Worship]; [Cures by Transplantation].
Ale, [39], [232].
See [Bride-ale], [Intoxicants].
Amanita Muscaria. See [Mushrooms].
Amber, [289];
believed to be whale’s dung, [271].
Ambergris, [48].
Ammonia, [39], [199], [201];
probably suggested by a prior use of urine, [199].
Ammonia, urate of, and guano, used in phthisis.
Amulets and talismans, [28], [42], [43], [44], [45], [47], [48], [49], [51], [52], [225], [226], [237], [363], [364], [370], [371], [391], [403], [441], [454], [458];
mistletoe used as an amulet, in Sweden, [108];
in England, [108], [111];
cow ordure and urine, as, [112];
the first tooth dropped by a child an amulet, [363].
See [Excrement], [Grand Lama], [Patriarch of Constantinople].
Amulets and talismans, [225], [245], [267].
Analysis of the mani or sacred pills of the Buddhists, [53].
Ancestor worship, [459], [460]. See [Spirits], [Gods].
Ancestors, skulls of, used as drinking-cups, in Thibet, [250].
Animal Worship. See under [Therapeutics], [Philters], [Aphrodisiacs], [Parturition], [Ordeals and Punishments], [Monasticism], [Cosmetics], [Amulets and Talismans], [Cures by Transplantation], [Tattooing].
Anthropomancy. See [Divination].
Anti-natural god of the Sioux, [267].
Aphrodisiacs, [78];
mushrooms regarded as, [78], [80], [90], [94];
onions and garlic regarded as, [93], [94];
mistletoe regarded as, [103], [104];
ordure and urine regarded as, [216], [217];
leopard’s dung regarded as, [217];
nettles regarded as, [216], [217], [390];
antiphrodisiacs, [224];
the testes of the fox used as an, [225].
April Fool’s Day, [432], [437].
See [Festival of Huli].
Aqua ex stercore. See [Excrement].
Aristophanes says that Esculapius ate excrement, [129];
calls thunder flatulence, [163];
calls doctors “excrement eaters,” [278], [279].
Arms and armor, [219].
Arms and armor, [241], [242], [312], [313], [323].
See [War Customs].
Asclepius, surnamed Pharmacion (the druggist), believed to have been the first writer who counselled the use of human excrement in Therapeutics, [278].
Aspersions, [105] (see [Mistletoe], [Holy Water], [Lustration], [Courtship and Marriage]), [113], [220], [225], [236], [247], [261], [300], [393], [398], [399], [428];
urine of Hottentot priest used in aspersions at weddings, funerals, etc., [229];
upon young warriors at time of initiation, [238], [239];
urine of Moorish bride at time of initiation, [229],—see [Queen of Madagascar];
the water in which Russian bride had been bathed at time of initiation, [231],—see [Bride-Ale].
Aspersions with urine in “Witches’ Mass,” [274], [383], [388];
urine used by the Highlanders for aspersing their cattle, [398], [390].
See [Lingams].
Aspersions, [113], [225], [264]. See [Rue].
Aspersions, by the Queen of Madagascar, [60].
See [Lustrations], [Hottentot Marriages], [Courtship and Marriage], [Holy Water].
Asphalt dissolved by the catamenial fluid, [350], [385];
also by human urine, [385].
Assafœtida, [322], [343], [389], [425], [444];
called “Merde du Diable,” [343], [444].
See under [Garlic], [Stench], [Perfume].
Assyria, dung gods of, [130], [132].
Aztecs used poisonous mushrooms in their sacred dances, [89], [90].
Bacchanalia, [62], [63], [64], [75], [89], [90], [394], [440].
Bang. See [Intoxicants].
Banians of India swear by cow dung, [112];
eat cow-dung, [119].
Baptism, [232];
mock baptism, [232].
Barrington, “Observations on the Statutes,” comments on tenures of land by flatulence, [166].
Basilisk, eggs of, would hatch only in dung, or under a toad, [268].
Bathing. See [Lustration].
Bedouins eructate as a matter of civility, [161];
consider flatulence a deadly insult, [161], [257], [258].
Beds and bedding, urination in bed, how prevented, [271], [375], [384];
defilement of, how occasioned, [379].
Beer, [232].
Beer. See [Intoxicants].
Belgium, the mannikin of Brussels, [165].
Bel-phegor, filthy rites connected with his worship, [132], [154], [155], [156], [157], [158], [160], [161], [173];
interview between Moses and Jehovah, [160];
analogous rites among the Hebrews and Parsis, [161].
Bembino, or Isaic table, [13].
Benet, S. V., notes on urine as a dentrifice, [204].
Bhikshuni of Thibet, [147].
Bile, Human. See [Therapeutics].
Bitumen. See [Asphalt].
“Black drink” of Creeks and Seminoles, [242];
of Imbando, Africa, [240], [250].
Bladders, [239], [434].
Bladders, [239], [378], [384], [415], [416], [417], [422], [423], [424], [434], [437], [438], [439], [464], [465];
mark of distinction for gallantry among Hottentots, [239];
use by Apache and other American savages, [434].
See [Sausage].
Bleaching.
See [Industries].
Blood-covenant, [240].
Boletus, variety of mushroom, is worshipped in Africa, [80], [91].
“Bona Dea,” one of the names of the goddess Rhea or Cybele, had urinal aspersions in her rites, [394].
Bones, in medicine. See [Therapeutics], [Cures by Transplantation].
“Bora.” See [Initiation], [240], [241].
“Borgie Well,” near Glasgow, made mad all who drank of its waters, [76].
Borneo, Dyaks of, have the Hebrew custom in regard to the covering up of the evacuations, [146].
Bourkans, or spirits of the Kalmucks,—one of them eats his own excrement, [49].
Boutan, merchants of, strewed ordure over their food, [45].
Brahmins of India, use of cow ordure and urine in religion, [112], [113], [114], [115], [118], [119], [122], [124].
Brain, in Medicine. See [Therapeutics], [Marriage], [Aspersions].
Bread, urine and excrement, in making, [32], [38].
“Bread of the Gods” (Mexicans), [89], [90], [91];
“Cockle Bread,” a Phallic game in England, [221], [222].
Bride, “Bride-Ale,” [232].
See [Courtship].
Bridges, a toll of flatulence exacted from prostitutes crossing the bridge of Montluc, in France, [166], [168], [169].
Brussels, the mannikin of, a Phallic idol, [165].
Buddhism, the god “Sakya-Muni” eats his own excrement, [49].
Buddhists, [147], [251].
Buddhists supposed to be related to the Druids, [99].
See [Lamas], [Grand Lama].
Bull of Ernulphus, bishop of Rochester, [251].
Burial. See [Mortuary Ceremonies].
Calculus, in medicine. See [Therapeutics].
Cape of Good Hope. See [Hottentots], etc.
Capuchins, their beastly customs, [147], [148].
Castes of India, restoration to the, [113].
See also [Clans].
Casting urine, [396].
Catamenia, [218], [219], [224], [296], [318], [392], [393], [394].
Catamenia, a catamenial woman could cure “King’s Evil,” [60];
mushrooms used as emmenagogues, [83], [108];
mistletoe used as an emmenagogue, especially that of the oak, [108];
seclusion during the duration of the catamenia, in Alaska, [104], [150];
catamenia used in making love-philters, [217], [218], [219], [224],—see [Philters];
to preserve chastity, [219];
in diseases, [219],—see [Therapeutics];
in witchcraft, [210],—see also [Witchcraft], [377 to 404];
philters made of catamenia were rendered abortive by hen-dung, [224], [225], [226];
asses’ dung restrained excessive catamenia, [278];
superstitions connected with the catamenia, [350],—see [Cosmetics], [367];
catamenial fluid had to be sprinkled upon mandrake before it could be pulled out of the ground, [271], [376], [385].
Cemetery, urinating through the wedding ring while in a cemetery baffled witchcraft, [231].
See also under [Mortuary Ceremonies].
Cerdier states that the Africans worship the mushroom, [80].
Ceremonial observances, [206], [207], [208], [211];
on Holy Thursday among Russian dissenters, [162];
urine drunk in the marriage ceremonies of the Siberians, [228].
See also [Initiation].
Ceremonial, tenacity of. See [Survivals].
Ceremonies in connection with agriculture in China, [345];
in pulling medicinal herbs, etc. See [Mandrake], [Therapeutics]; see also [Weeping], [Kissing], [Spitting], [Saliva], [Shaving], [Flatulence], [Urination], [Oblations of Urine] and [Excrement].
Chaise percée of the Grand Lama, [42];
the tripod of Esculapius a chaise percée, [129].
Chamber-pots, [175], [251].
Charlotte Elizabeth, Princess of Bavaria, a coarse letter from, [32].
Charms, [188], [230], [370], [371], [373], [405], [424], [430], [442], [443], [457], [458], [461], [462].
See also [Magic], [Amulets and Talismans], [Witchcraft], [Cures by Transplantation].
Chastity. See [Continence], [Anti-Philters].
Cheese, curds, human urine used in making cheese in Germany, [181];
and in Switzerland, [181];
a “survival” of the preceding practice among the Pennsylvania Germans, [396].
Childbirth. See [Parturition].
“Chinook Olives,” [38], [424].
Chrysocollon, a cement made of urine, etc., [182], [183].
Clallums of B. North America, Orgies of, [63].
Clans, [185], [186], [187], [188], [456], [457], [466];
the Roman clans were convened upon the appearance of a case of epilepsy, [456], [457], [466].
See [Castes], [Totemism], [Tattooing].
Clemens Alexandrinus, his account of excrement gods, [127], [128].
Cloacina, Roman goddess of privies, [127], [134], [264].
Club-houses of secret orders, [9].
Cockatrice. See [Basilisk].
“Cockle-Bread,” a Phallic game in England, [221], [222].
Collyrium. See [Eye Troubles].
“Comitialia” (see under [Epilepsy]; also under [Clans]), [456], [457], [466].
Commodus, the Roman Emperor, ate excrement, [30].
Coral, [181], [216];
color of, restored by hanging in a privy, [181];
coral a remedy for witchcraft, [216].
Cord, sacred, [122].
See [Initiation], [Girdle].
Cosmetics, [88], [287], [306], [307], [314], [330], [352], [353], [366], [367], [368], [369];
the dung of pigeons, mice, crocodiles, bulls, starlings, cows, men, lizards, foxes, dogs, sparrows, chickens, donkeys, geese, etc., used as; also the meconium of infants, sperm of frogs, catamenia, “Aqua Omnium Florum,” [369].
Courtship and marriage, [19], [48], [66], [67], [68], [96], [107], [185], [216 to 233];
brides fumigated with incense made from the excrement of the Patriarch of Constantinople, according to Arabian writers, [48];
bride and groom sprinkled with the urine of the Hottentot shamans, [59], [221];
divination in regard to courtship and marriage, [96];
the maiden who was not kissed under the mistletoe would not be married within the year, [103];
“ligatures,” [107], [221];
wives in Borneo tattooed on the thighs, [185];
Apache-Yuma matrons tattoo, [186];
urine drunk at marriages in Siberia, [228].
See [Philters], [Aphrodisiacs], [Ligatures], [Ring], [Wedding], [Bride], [Wool].
Coprolite, [184].
“Cry, the more you, the less you piss,” [182].
Crepitus, the God of Flatulence. See [Flatulence].
Crypto-Jews, [18].
Cures by transplantation, [349].
Cybele. See “Bona Dea,” [445].
Dandelion, superstitions in connection with, [248].
Dandruff, [304], [306], [328], [331].
Dandruff. See [Hair].
Dentrifice, urine used as a, [203], [204], [205].
Devil’s posterior kissed, [384].
Devil’s presents all turned to filth and dross, [270].
Diseases, all cured by mistletoe, [99], [104], [105], [107];
catamenia, used in cure of,—see [Catamenia], [Therapeutics];
ordure and urine used in the cure of,—see [Therapeutics, Transference of];
see “[Cures by Transplantation];”
sacred diseases,—see [Epilepsy];
the heathen theory of disease, [423], [441], [442], [443], [444], [445], [446], [456], [458], [457], [462].
Divination, [11], [13], [14], [15], [16], [90], [96], [107], [126], [155], [233], [234], [246], [247], [248].
See “[Cockle-Bread],” [Urinoscopy], [Gambling], [Dice], [Visions], [Onions], [Omens], [Courtship and Marriage], [Parturition].
Dreams, [253].
“Drink of Oblivion” of the Druids, [106].
Drink, the “Mad Potion,” Wysoccan, [242].
Drinks, [380].
Drinks. See [Foods], [Urine as a Beverage], [Intoxicants], [Eau de Mille Fleurs], [Table Liqueurs].
Druidism, [372].
Druids. See [Mistletoe].
Ducking-stool. See [Ordeals and Punishments].
Dung, all earthly joys compared to, by the Apostle Paul, by Saint Matthew, and by Thomas à Kempis, [271].
Dung, definition of, [52],—see [Pedung], [Excrement], [Dung-carts], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15];
dung-heaps used in punishment, [87];
dung-gods, [127], [128], [130], [131], [132], [133],—see [Excrement Gods];
dung thrown by Australian neophytes, [237],—see [Parturition];
thrown at Guinea negresses in their first pregnancy, [237].
Dung of whales, amber was believed to be, [271].
Dung, the eggs of the basilisk would hatch only in, [269].
Dungi, king of Chaldea, B.C. 2,000, [52].
Dyaks of Borneo, cover up their evacuations, [146].
Dyeing. See [Industries].
Dyeing of Hair. See [Hair].
Ear-Wax. See [Therapeutics].
Easter eggs, [323].
See [Eggs].
Eau de Mille Fleurs, made of cow dung, [30], [330];
in medicine, see [Therapeutics].
Eggs, in “[Cures by Transplantation]” (q. v.); a plausible explanation of the meaning of the custom of exchanging Easter eggs, [465].
Emetics. See [Therapeutics].
Enchantment. See [Magic].
Esculapius ate excrement, [129].
Eucharist, errors in connection with the doctrine of the, [54], [55], [56].
Eucharistic bread sprinkled with human semen by the Manicheans and Albigenses, [220].
Eunuch, the urine of, used as an aphrodisiac, [224];
also as an antiphrodisiac, [224];
and as a remedy for sterility, [233], [281];
emasculation, a religious rite among Hottentots, [238], [239];
also among the Galli, priests of Cybele, [394].
Evergreens at Christmas. See [Mistletoe].
Excrement, Animal. See [Therapeutics], [Ordeals], [Myths], [Insults], [Sacrifice], [Industries], [Agriculture], [Commerce], [Fuel], [Hair], [Smoking], [Philters], [Witchcraft], [Virility].
Excrement eaten, [240].
Excrement gods, of Romans, of Egyptians, of Assyrians, of Hebrews, of Mexicans; Esculapius an excrement god; the excrement gods of the Moabites; Bel-Phegor an excrement god, [127], [128], [129], [130], [131], [132].
Excrement, Human, see [Grand Lama of Thibet];
in Medicine, see [Therapeutics];
in Punishments, see [Ordeals and Punishments];
in Initiation, see [Initiation];
in Industries, see [Industries];
in Witchcraft, see [Witchcraft];
was believed to be the greatest panacea against [Witchcraft];
see [Cures by Transplantation].
See also [Agriculture], [Commerce], [Fuel], [Hair Dye], [Hair], [Philters], [Courtship and Marriage], [Virility], [Ligatures], [War Customs], [Divination], [Ordeals], [Myths], [Insults], [Cosmetics], [Amulets and Talismans].
Excrement, in jewelry, [184].
Exorcism. See [Incantation].
Ezekiel, Hebrew prophet, [119], [120], [121];
eats human ordure in his food; eats cow-dung in his food; lies for 390 days on one side and 40 days on the other, [120];
an explanation of his behavior, [241].
Fairies, [232].
Festivals, religious, their commemorative character, [24].
Fetiches. See [Idols], [Gods], [Amulets, and Talismans].
Fingers, human, necklace of, deposited by the author in the National Museum, Washington, D. C., [364].
Flap-Dragons. See “Healths in Urine,” [229].
Flattery, Cape (B. North America), Indians of, have an orgy induced by poisonous mushrooms, [48], [65].
Flatulence, of fairies, [87];
flatulence would kill the Eskimo god “Torngarsuk,” if witchcraft were going on in a house, [157];
the Devil put to flight by flatulence, [163], [444];
flatulence avoided by the Hebrews while at prayer, also by the Parsis; considered a deadly insult by Bedouins and Afghans, [161], [257];
a contest for championship among the Arabs, [161];
adored by the Romans, by the Egyptians, by the Hebrews, by the Moabites, by the Assyrians, in the worship of Bel-peor, [127 to 163];
the bibliography of the subject, [162];
tenures of land in England by flatulence, [165], [166], [167];
a toll of flatulence exacted of prostitutes who for the first time crossed the bridge of Montluc in France, [168];
called “Sir Reverence,” by the Irish immigrants to the United States, [169];
in games in England, [173];
Satan “lets a f—t,” in the old Moralities, [173];
the punishment for, among small boys in Philadelphia, Pa., [174], [175], [176];
in obscene tales, [119], [120].
Flesh, Human. See [Mummy], [Corpse], [Therapeutics].
“Flowers as Emblems” (Standard, London), [298].
Fly Agaric. See [Mushroom].
Fly Poison. See [Mushroom], [Amanita], [Agaric], [58].
Fox, Charles James, the English orator, his essay upon flatulence; essay upon wind, [112].
Fuel, human excrement said to have been used as, [120];
the excrement of animals known to have been used as, [120], [195], [196], [197], [198];
among Israelites, [120].
Fullers. See [Industries], [Bleaching].
Fungus. See [Mushroom], [Mistletoe].
Games, [252], [253], [254];
sailors’, [254];
harvest, [253].
Garlic, Lamas abstain from it while making mani pills, [60];
Chinese priests abstain from it while sacrificing, [95];
used by the Scandinavians to frustrate witchcraft, [96];
an article of diet from the earliest ages, [96];
the smell of garlic accounted a sign of vulgarity in the time of Shakespeare, [96];
offered to the manes of the dead by the Greeks, [96];
invoked as a God by the Egyptians, [96];
not eaten by the Pelusians, [96];
Peruvian priests abstained from it while engaged in sacrifice, [95].
Gods believed to become incarnate in the medicine men, [59],—see [Lamas];
children in the Samoan Islands are called the “excrement of such and such a god,” [69];
Bacchus or Dionysius, [62];
Mithras, [62];
“Bread of the Gods” (Mexico), [90];
Egyptian gods, [94];
onions and garlic adored as gods, [94].
See also [Mushrooms] and [Mistletoe], [Dung-Gods], [Cloacina], [Crepitus].
Gods, heathen, idea of, [157].
Golden Bough, The, James G. Frazer, M. A., London, 1890. See [Frazer].
Gomez. See [Nirang].
Grace, Herb of, [Rue] so called.
Grand Lama of Thibet, his excrements made into amulets, [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52];
his urine mixed in food, [44];
the same ideas in Ireland, [57], [68], [60];
and in Uganda, Africa, [60];
the excrement of the Grand Lama made into snuff, [214].
Guerlichon, Saint, Phallic statue near Bruges, [430].
Hair, [240];
in medicine,—see [Therapeutics], [343], [345].
See also “[Cures by Transplantation],” [345], [412].
See [Witchcraft].
Hair, urine used in eradicating dandruff from, [198], [199], [280], [314];
excrement of different kinds used as a dye for, [199];
camel’s dung and urine good for, [280];
bull’s urine good for, [280].
Ha-o-kah, the anti-Natural god of the Sioux, [106].
Harvest Games. See [Games].
Haschish. See [Intoxicants].
“Healths in urine,” [229].
See [Flap-Dragons].
Helmont, Von. See [Oritrika].
Herb of Grace, Rue so-called. See [Rue], [224], [225].
Holi, huli, hulica, festival of, [432], [434].
Holy water, [51], [60], [61], [105], [108], [116], [211], [225], [228], [229], [247], [261], [264], [383], [388], [394], [398], [399], [428], [431];
sweet-scented water used in sacred rites by Lamas, [51];
the urine of the Hottentot medicine men was looked upon as holy water, [60], [229];
the water of the mistletoe used as, [105], [108].
See also “[Water of Immortality].”
Cow urine regarded as holy water by Parsees and Hindus, [116];
holy water superseded a former use of urine, [211], [261];
urine used instead of, in “Witches’ Mass,” [383], [388], [394], [397], [398];
the water of the river Ganges held to be holy, [428];
lingam, [304], [305], [431];
“yellow water,” [431].
Hom, the sacred plant of the Magi; its resemblance to mistletoe, [101].
“Hommes habillés en Femme,” [22], [23].
Horns, as symbols of power, [408];
in witchcraft, [245].
Hospitality. In Siberia, women are presented to distinguished guests who must drink their urine, [228], [316].
Hugo, Victor, refers to the tax of flatulence imposed upon prostitutes in France, [168].
“Hum,” the sacred drink of the Parsis, [380].
Hunting and fishing, mistletoe ensured success in, [109];
sacrifices offered to the god of, [161];
bladders worn by distinguished Hottentot hunters, [244].
Idols, [354];
women of the, [406].
“Impenetrability of Weapons,” [219].
Incantation. See under [Witchcraft]; see also [Singing], [Music].
Incantations, [218].
Industries, [177 to 195].
Initiation, [189], [240], [243], [383], [384];
Indians compelled to eat cow-dung before, [114], [119];
tattooing upon, [185];
Parsis drink bull urine, [238];
Hottentot young men emasculated and sprinkled with urine at time of, [238], [239];
Eskimo candidate for the honor of medicine men, had to be accustomed to the smell of urine from babyhood, [239];
initiation of witches, [402].
See also [Confirmation].
Insanity. See [Mania].
Insults, [87], [114], [253], [254], [255], [256], [257], [379];
ordure and urine in, [87];
the Hebrews revile each other’s temples, calling them “Houses of Dung,” [114].
Intoxicants, sacred character of, [75], [89], [90], [91];
at weddings, [229].
See [Mushrooms], [Mistletoe], [Haschish], [Wine], [Urine].
Intoxication, sacred, [380].
Ireland, called the “Urinal of the Planets,” [269].
Isaiah, Hebrew prophet, supposed to refer to the mistletoe, [101];
had attacks of mania, [121];
compared human justice “panno menstruatæ,” [253].
Jewelry, excrement as, [184].
Jews’ Ears. See [Mushrooms].
Kadeshim, [406].
Kashima, [206], [207], [434].
Kempis, Thomas à, compared all human joys to dung, [271].
King’s Evil, could be cured by the touch of the king, [60], [61];
or by that of a menstruating woman, [60], [61]:
the first of these beliefs is evidently a “survival” of man worship, [60], [61];
could be cured by the urine of a male child, [300].
Kingsley, J. W., M.D., his views on Ur-orgies, [65], [70].
Kissing. See under [Phallism], [103], [104], [173], [222];
under Mistletoe, [103], [104].
As a religious rite in the Christian church, [104];
kissing the post of Billingsgate, London, [173].
“Knife, The,” a secret order of the Zuñis, [6];
“Knife, the Winged,” a god of the Zuñis of New Mexico, [9].
Kutka, a god of the Kamtchatkans, falls in love with his own excrement, [267].
Lajarde, his definition of “Cow’s Water,” [113].
Lamas, [42], [43], [44], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53], [58], [59], [82], [118], [126];
among the Irish, [58], [69], [82].
See [Grand Lama of Thibet], [Priests], [Buddhists].
Lamas of Thibet, [358].
See [Bhikshunis], [Buddhists].
Latrines, [131-153].
Loretto, shrine of, tattooing practised at, [190].
Love-Philters, [223].
See [Philters], [Divination], [Courtship and Marriage].
Lustral Water, [240], [400].
Lustration. See [Aspersion], [Baptism].
“Mad Potion,” Wysoccan, [243].
Magic, mistletoe believed to have magical powers, [100];
Osthanes, the Persian, the first writer upon magic, according to Pliny, [376].
See under [Eunuch], [Aphrodisiacs], [Witchcraft], [Amulets and Talismans], [Charms], [Incantations].
Magical Impenetrability. See under [War Customs].
Mandrake, [376].
Mandrake, before pulling it out of the ground, it was anointed with the urine of a woman and the catamenia of a virgin, [376].
“Mangeurs de Blanc,” [287].
Mania, induced by drinking the water of the “Borgie well” of Glasgow, [76];
induced by poisonous mushrooms, [79];
human ordure and urine a cure for, [314], [339];
Ezekiel and Isaiah had attacks of, [121].
Manicheans, bathed in urine, [211];
sprinkled the Eucharistic bread with semen, [229].
Man worship, [59], [60], [61], [459], [460],—
see [Grand Lama of Thibet];
see [Gurus];
see [Patriarch of Constantinople], [36];
see [Excrement], [Pedung];
the same ideas in Ireland, [60];
and in Uganda, Africa, [60];
the existence of man worship in Europe, [61];
connected with the belief in the power of the king’s touch, to cure the King’s Evil, [61].
Marriage. See [Courtship and Marriage].
Marrow, human, in medicine, see [Therapeutics];
in witchcraft, see [Witchcraft].
Matthew, Saint, compares all human joys to dung, [271].
Meconium,—see [Therapeutics];
a cosmetic, see [Cosmetics].
Medicine-men of the Ove-hereros, Africa urinate on the sick in order to effect cures, [339].
Menstruation. See [Catamenia].
“Merde du Diable,” assafœtida so called, [444].
Merde, Holy. See [Excrement].
Metals, transmutation of. See [Potable Gold].
Human urine used in effecting, [183].
Milk vessels in Africa, washed out with human urine, [199];
a good flow of milk assured by washing the cow’s udders with urine, [211];
a good flow of milk assured in a woman’s breasts, by washing them with urine, [211];
in medicine,—see [Therapeutics];
sprinkled by nursing women upon a fire, [391];
milk of cow sprinkled upon the lingam, [428], [431].
Mistletoe, [74], [75], [92], [99], [100], [101], [102], [103], [104], [105], [106], [154], [301];
spoken of in Cingalese Myths, [92], [99], [100], [101], [102], [103], [104], [105], [106];
why venerated by the Druids, [99], [100], [101];
adored by the Massagetæ and the Persians, [101], [102];
and by the ancients generally, [100];
a cure for sterility, [101], [102];
Virgil called it “Branch of Gold,” [101];
Charon dumb in the presence of, [101];
a Phallic symbol, [101], [102];
a berry plucked off with every kiss, [103];
kissing under, [103];
dedicated to Mylitta, [103];
mistletoe of the oak, pear, and hazel, will produce abortion, [104];
alleged to have been held sacred by the mound-builders, [107].
Mistletoe, when found growing on the oak, represented man, [110].
Mock baptism, [232].
Mortuary ceremonies, [150], [152], [162], [261], [262], [263];
purification in, [150];
the vagina, urethra, nostrils, rectum, etc., of corpses closed by the Pelew islanders, [162];
defilement from touching a corpse, [261].
Mound-builders, alleged to have held mistletoe sacred, [76].
Mourning, [262];
urine and ordure as signs of, [262];
Australians in mourning rub themselves with the moisture from the corpse, [261].
See [Mortuary Ceremonies].
Muhongo, an African boy from Angola.
Muk-a-Moor. See [Mushrooms].
Mummy, in medicine, see [Therapeutics];
in love-philters, see [Philters].
Museum, National. See [National Museum].
Museum, Washington, D.C., [364].
Mushrooms, poisonous mushrooms used in Ur-orgies, [65 to 91];
obeyed as a god by the Siberians, [70], [75];
at the “Holy Well of the Borgie,” Glasgow, [76];
adored as a god by the Africans, [79];
detested by Hindus, [92].
Musk, odor of, restored by hanging it in a privy, [181];
in medicine,—see [Therapeutics];
human excrement was called musk by Paracelsus, [341].
Mylitta, Babylonian goddess of venery; prostitution in her temples, [101], [103], [404], [405], [406], [407], [408].
Myths, [151], [226], [256], [266-271].
Nails, in medicine,—see [Therapeutics];
see [Witchcraft]; [Cures by Transplantation].
Names, [59], [123], [124], [442];
in Samoa, children are named the “excrement of Tongo,” or some other god, [59];
in India, and among the Parsis, children are sprinkled with cow urine, when named, [153];
the name of the victim had to be invoked in a substitutive sacrifice, [124];
the name of the patient had to be mentioned when medicinal herbs were gathered, [442].
Nanacatl, the poisonous mushroom used in Mexican orgies, [89], [90].
Necklace of human fingers, deposited by the author in the National Museum, Washington, D. C., [364].
Necromancy. See [Witchcraft].
“Nehue-cue,” a secret order of the Zuñis, [7], [8], [9].
Nirang, [8], [122], [391].
See [Urine], [Gomez], [Cow Urine], [Lustrations].
Omens. See [Divination].
Ordeals and Punishments, [249], [250], [251], [252], [253].
Ordure. See [Excrement].
Origen, [108].
Osthanes, the magician, accompanied the army of Xerxes into Greece, and, according to Pliny, was the first writer on magic; his views on the magical effects of human urine, [376].
Ove-hereros, of Africa, their medicine-men urinate on the sick in order to effect cures, [339].
Parsis, anoint themselves with the ordure and urine of the cow, [7], [8], [48];
drink cow urine, [7], [8], [48], [113], [122], [211];
asperse themselves with cow urine, [113], [122];
use of bull urine at time of confirmation, [238].
Parturition, mushrooms given to bring about pregnancy, [83];
the Hindu women’s method for aiding pregnancy, [93];
mistletoe given to aid childbirth, [100];
and to cure sterility, [100], [101], [102], [103], [104];
human ordure and urine drunk to remedy sterility, [126];
Apache-Yuma women tattoo themselves when anxious to become mothers, [186];
ceremonies connected with the first pregnancy of Guinea negresses, [210], [211];
the breasts of Scotch women bathed with human urine, [210], [211];
the breasts of the women of the French peasantry bathed with human urine, [210], [211];
a pessary of meconium to cure sterility, [233];
English women drank the urine of husband to aid them in labor, [234];
idem, France, [235];
Germany, etc. [305];
teeth worn as amulets during pregnancy, [364];
in the Kala-Vala, it is narrated that a maiden became pregnant after swallowing a berry, [108].
Paschasius, a Roman judge, sprinkled Saint Lucy with urine because she was a witch, [394].
Pastimes. See [Games].
Paul, the apostle, compares all human joys to dung, [271].
Pelusium, onion was worshipped as a god in, [96];
the people did not eat onions or garlic, [96];
they adored flatulence, [155].
Penance. See [Ordeals and Punishments].
Perspiration, a component of love-philters; in medicine, [290], [412].
See [Therapeutics], [Cures by Transplantation].
Phallic dances, the Phallus fungus, [79];
a Phallic importance seems to have attached to the onion, [96];
likewise to the mistletoe, [103];
“Jack of Hilton,” apparently a Phallic idol, [165], [166];
the “Mannikin” of Brussels, another, [165], [166];
the Phallic game of “Cockle Bread,” [221], [222].
See under [Lingam].
Phallism, [7], [12], [79], [103], [117], [165], [166], [221], [222], [261], [428], [429], [430], [431].
Pharmacy, among savages, is always a matter of religion, [277].
See [Therapeutics].
Philosopher’s stone, [226], [304], [305].
See [Transmutation of Metals];
see “[Potable Gold].”
Philters, ordure and urine in, [216], [217], [218], [223];
death the punishment for making them of ordure and urine, [216];
philters were also made of perspiration, semen, and catamenia, [216], [217], [218], [219];
made by transfusion of blood, [219];
anti-philters, [224], [225], [226].
Phosphorus. See [Industries].
“Piss, the more you, the less you cry,” [275].
Placenta, see [After-Birth];
in philters, see [Philters].
Plaster, see [Industries].
Pledges, [228], [240], [427], [457], [458];
human urine drunk as a pledge of friendship in Siberia, [228].
See under [Blood Covenant], [240];
see under [Human Sacrifice], [457].
Poison, [58], [234],—see [Mushrooms];
see “[Imbando];” human ordure an antidote for, [311], [312], [313], [322], [323];
human ordure also used by the Japanese as a cure for the wounds of poisonous weapons, [311], [312];
also for the same purpose by other nations, [312], [313];
the patient’s own urine an antidote for, [320], [322];
the bites of venomous animals, mad dogs, and snakes, cured by human ordure, [312];
and by urine, [414];
but there was no “Cure by Transplantation” for poison, [412].
“Potable Gold,” [303], [305].
See [Transmutation of Metals], [183].
Pregnancy. See [Parturition].
Presents, those received from the devil always turned into filth, [401].
Priests, [10], [11], [12], [15], [19], [20], [25], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [60], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [89], [109], [110], [115], [116], [128], [129], [135], [156];
the water in which they defecated, drunk by pious Irish kings, [58];
the Chinese priests have mushrooms as part of their diet, [81];
the chief priest of the Romans was called the greatest bridge builder, [169], [170], [171];
priests tattooed the young men, [185], [186];
the priests of Jupiter Ammon made sal ammoniac, [195];
Hottentot priests sprinkled their urine upon wedding guests, young warriors, and mourners, [229];
priests were the earthly representatives of their deities, [322], [362];
the skulls of Buddhist priests used in divination, [359].
Prostitution, sacred prostitution, [101], [103], [168], [404], [405], [406], [407];
a toll of flatulence exacted of prostitutes crossing bridge of Montluc in France, [168], [169];
in the South Sea Islands, [135];
in Paris, [337];
prostitutes in Rome offered expiations of catamenia, [350];
the prostitutes of Amsterdam believed that horse-dung brought them luck, [405];
the prostitutes of Babylon, [404], [405], [406];
of Patagonia, [407].
Purification. See [Lustration], [Mortuary Ceremonies], [Aspersion], [Holy Water].
Queen of Madagascar asperses her subjects with the water in which she has bathed, [60].
Rain, the urine of the gods, [270].
Rainbow, [180], [267], [442];
regarded generally by the savage mind as a panacea, [442],
and by the Africans as a serpent, [267].
Rattles, [6], [437];
sometimes consulted as oracles, [437];
and adored as a god, [437].
Raven talked to its own excrement, [270].
Reverence, Sir Reverence, [170], [247], [253].
Ring, urination through the wedding ring baffled witchcraft, [230], [231];
rings were formerly exchanged by bridal couple, [230].
See [Amulets and Talismans], [Courtship and Marriage], [Circle].
Ritual of the Feast of the Ass, [15];
of the Lamas for making mani pills, [49], [50], [51];
of the Moslems for urinating, [141];
of bridge-builders in the Middle Ages, [169], [170], [171];
of Bel-Phegor, [173],—see under [Bel-Phegor];
see also [Kissing the Post of Billingsgate];
of the Manicheans and Albigenses, [220].
Ritualistic cannibalism, [64], [155];
among Hebrews, [155].
Roman Catholic Church, councils interdict the use of ordure and urine in witchcraft, [216], [394];
also interdict love-philters, [220], [221];
used rue in exorcism, [225].
Rosemary, [399].
Rue, [225];
called “Herb of Grace,” [225];
an urino-genital irritant, [225];
used to asperse congregations, [225], [245];
died if touched by a menstruating woman, [350];
used in the manufacture of anti-philters, [225].
See [Tree and Plant Worship].
Sacred intoxication, [381].
Sacrifice,—see also [Oblations], [Votive Offerings], see [Human Sacrifice], see [Substitutive Sacrifice], [Abstinence];
Chinese priests abstain from garlic while offering sacrifice, [95];
garlic was offered in sacrifice by Greeks and Egyptians, [95];
cow dung and urine in sacrifice in India and Thibet, [112], [113], [114], [115], [116], [117];
ashes of cow dung used by the Hindus and Hebrews, [113], [114];
of ordure placed on the altars of the Assyrian Venus, [129], [130];
ditto of Mexican dung gods, [131];
of ordure and urine on the altars of Bel-Phegor, [132], [133];
sacrifices of ear-wax, saliva, mucus, tears, [132], [133].
See [Ceremonial Observances].
Sagard, Père, [234]; Histoire du Canada, edition of Paris, 1885.
Sakya-Muni. See [Buddha].
Salagram. See [Lingam].
Sal Ammoniac. See [Industries].
Saliva, [202], [417],—see also [Spitting];
as an oblation to Bel-peor, [132], [133];
in medicine,—see [Therapeutics];
see “[Cures by Transplantation].”
Salt, urine employed as a substitute for, [118], [199], [204];
and in the manufacture of, [193];
salt and water as a substitute for urine, [211];
in witchcraft, [379], [403],—see [Witchcraft];
not generally eaten by witches, [402];
used by the Irish to drive away witches, [404].
Saltpetre. See [Industries].
Samoan Islands, filthy names given to children, as a matter of religion, [59].
Santa Claus, his derivation from polar countries, [209].
Saturnalia. See [Bacchanalia], [Huli].
Scatomancy, or Divination by Excrement. See [Divination].
Scatophagi (excrement eaters). See [Excrement].
Scybalaophagi. See [Scatophagi], [Excrement].
Sectarial Marks of the Hindus. See [Tattooing].
Secundines, an anti-philter, [226-235].
See [After-Birth].
Semen in love-philters, [217], [219],—see [Philters];
in medicine, see [Therapeutics];
in witchcraft, see [Witchcraft].
Semen lini, [297].
Shamrock. See [Druids].
Shampooing. See [Hair].
Signatures, Doctrine of. See [Cures by Transplantation].
Silence, in ceremonial observances, [414], [442];
in gathering medicinal plants, [442].
Skin, [292].
Skin, Human, in Therapeutics. See [Therapeutics].
Skull, human, in medicine.—see [Therapeutics];
a remedy for witchcraft; moss growing on skull; in medicine; in the religious ceremonies of the Lamas, [359].
Smoking, buffalo dung smoked, [182], [214];
hen dung smoked in adulterated opium, [182];
the excrement of the Grand Lama used as snuff, [214];
pig dung used as snuff, [214];
the people of Achaia smoked cow dung, [214].
See also [Incense].
Smudges. See also [Fuel].
Snake, [33];
as food, [33];
snake dances, [27].
Snuff, the excrement of the Grand Lama made into snuff, [214];
pig dung used as, [214], [329];
powdered skulls used as, [252];
moss growing on skull used as, [360].
See [Smoking], [Tobacco], [Excrement], [Grand Lama].
Soap, antedated by urine, [140], [202], [203].
Sorcery. See [Witchcraft], [Enchantment].
Spatalomancy, divination by Skin, Bones and Excrement. See [Divination], [Scatomancy].
Spells. See [Magic].
Stercoraceous chair of the Popes, [213].
“Stercoranistes,” or “Stercorarians,” a sect charged with believing that the sacred elements in the Eucharist were subject to digestion, [54], [55], [56].
“Stercoraire,—Chaise des Papes,” [213].
Stercus, Sterculius, Stercutus, Sterquilinus. See [Dung Gods].
Sterility, [226], [236].
Sterility. See [Therapeutics].
Substitutive sacrifice, Ezekiel substitutes cow dung for human ordure in his food, [119], [120], [121];
the cow, a substitute for human sacrifice, [122];
ox, buffalo, and goat, ditto, [123], [124], [125], [126];
cock and chamois, ditto, [171];
wolf or goat, ditto, [171];
chicken, ditto, [252].
See [Survivals].
Sulphur, “Occidental Sulphur,” a name for human ordure when administered in medicine, [424].
Sun Dance, [27].
Superstition. See [Survivals], [Religion].
Survivals, burlesque survivals, [306], [307], [308], [432], [433], [434], [435], [436], [437].
See [Substitutive Sacrifice].
Sweat-Bath. See [Purification], [Lustration].
Sympathetic Cures. See [Cures by Transplantation], [Color Symbolism], [Doctrine of Signatures].
Sympathies, the Doctrine of. See [Color Symbolism], [Cures by Transplantation]; [Similia Similibus].
“Szombatiaks,” of Transylvania, [18], [19].
Tallow, Human, in medicine. See [Therapeutics].
Tanning. See [Industries].
Tartar, the impurities from human teeth, used in medicine. See [Therapeutics].
Tattooing, [184], [185], [186], [187], [188], [189], [190];
in Australia, [187];
among American Indians, [185], [186];
among Burmese, [186];
the sectarial marks of the Hindus, [186];
“Tattooed Face,” a god of the Mandans, [186];
tattooing of captives, [186].
Teeth,—see [Dentrifice];
in medicine, [255],—see [Therapeutics];
to frustrate witchcraft, [281],—see [Witchcraft].
Tenacity of Ceremonial. See [Survivals].
Tenures of land, [165], [166], [167];
obscene tenures in England, [165], [166], [167];
“Ancient” Blount, [165], [166], [167];
of land by flatulence, in England, [165], [166], [167];
the antiquity of these tenures, [167].
Testes, testicles, [230];
of bridegroom anointed with “Zibethum,” [230].
See, also, [Eunuchs].
Testicles, [225], [230];
of goat and fox, used as aphrodisiacs, [225];
of bridegroom anointed, [230].
Therapeutic Hagiology, [157], [158], [159], [160], [423], [445], [446].
Therapeutics, [277 to 343] inclusive; [344 to 365] inclusive.—see [Parturition], [Courtship and Marriage], [Sterility], [Virility], [Ligatures], [Amulets and Talismans], [Cosmetics], [Witchcraft], etc.;
the Heathen theory of therapeutics, [423].
Thibetan doctors churn the patient’s urine before making a diagnosis of disease, [273].
Toasts, urine drunk in, [229], [238].
Tobacco, cured by hanging in privies, [181];
mixed with buffalo or rhinoceros dung for smoking, [214];
used by the Irish to drive away fairies, [403].
Tolls, on bridges, roads, etc., [166], [167], [168], [169];
of flatulence, exacted from prostitutes, [166], [167], [168], [169].
“Torngarsuk,” an Eskimo god, could be killed by flatulence, [157].
Totem. See [Clan], [Tattooing].
“Transplantation, Cures by,” [378 to 427] inclusive, [439], [441], [442], [443], [444], [457], [458], [460].
See [Animal Worship], [Tree and Plant Worship].
Tree and plant worship, [427],—see [Rue];
Mistletoe, [56], [57];
Aconite, [150];
Dandelion, [150];
Mushroom, [56].
See [Oak].
Urinals. See [Latrines].
Urination in bed, charm to prevent, [375].
Urination, posture in, [141], [151], [152];
Mahometans, [141];
Apaches, men and women, [151];
ancient Irish, [152];
Italians, [152];
Chinese, [152];
Greeks, Romans, etc., [375].
See [Ceremonial Observances].
Urine, [236], [239], [240], [241];
used as a stimulant in South America, Malacca, Bavaria, and Central Africa, [332], [333];
given to new-born babes in England, [239], [240], [241];
urine drinking, [239], [240], [241];
poured upon the head of a woman in labor by Eskimo, [236].
Urine of medicine men sprinkled upon Hottentot bride and groom, [59], [228], [229];
the Queen of Madagascar sprinkled her subjects with the water in which she had bathed, [60];
a similar custom at Russian weddings, [231];
a remedy for witchcraft, [216],—see [Witchcraft];
in conjunction with the lizard is an antiphrodisiac, [224],—see [Ligature], [Virility], [Wedding], [Wedding Ring];
the Eskimo boy who aspires to become a medicine man must accustom himself to the smell of urine from boyhood, [239];
urine in sacrifice,—see [Sacrifice], [Lustration], [Aspersions], [Oblations], [War Customs], [Divination];
urine in cosmetics,—see [Cosmetics];
urine in witchcraft,—see [Witchcraft], [Initiation];
urine in bread-making, [32], [39];
urine in industries,—see [Agriculture], [Industries], [Tanning], [Bleaching], [Dyeing];
urine as a dentrifrice, [203], [204], [205];
urine in medicine,—see [Therapeutics];
in love-philters,—see [Love-Philters];
“urine-casting,” [396];
urine as a beverage, [6], [7], [8], [9], [22], [30], [36], [38], [39], [40], [58], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73], [74], [75], [86], [87];
probably used as such by the fairies, [86], [87], [88], [112], [113], [114], [115], [116], [117], [118];
also by Hindu and Hebrew fanatics, [119], [120], [126];
was drunk to ease the pains of pregnancy, [233];
English women in labor drank their husband’s urine, [234];
this seems to have been a very ancient practice, [235], [236];
urine in such cases among the Eskimo, [236];
Parsis drink bull’s urine at Confirmation, [238];
children, at birth, forced to drink urine, [239], [240];
water in which babe has just been bathed drunk by Indians of California, midwives, [239];
the Ponca Indians made an Omaha calumet-bearer drink urine, [257];
urine in “cures by transplantation,”—see “[Cures by Transplantation],” [Lingam];
the urine of the Grand Lama of Thibet mixed in food, [44].
See [Insults], [Myths], [Tolls].
Urine formerly thrown out of windows in Paris, Bordeaux, Madrid, Edinburgh, and many other cities of Europe, [136], [137], [138];
urine dances, [6], [7], [8], [9], [22], [30], [65], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73], [74], [75], [76], [87].
See also under [Feast of Fools].
Urinoscopy, [272], [273], [274], [331], [385], [386], [415];
complicated with divination, (q. v.) [272], [273], [274];
seems to have prevailed in all parts of the world, [272], [273], [274];
among the Romans, [272], [273];
Arabians, [272], [273];
in England, [272], [273], [274];
in Germany, [272], [273], [274];
France, [272], [273], [274];
among the Greeks, [272], [273], [274].
Virgil calls mistletoe the “Branch of Gold,” [72], [78].
Vitriol. See [Cures by Transplantation].
Vodka. See [Intoxicants].
Voudooism. See [Witchcraft].
Waltz, [401].
War customs, [237], [242], [243], [256];
captive girls tattooed by the Mojaves, [130];
young Hottentot warriors emasculated, [238];
human ordure an antidote for poisoned weapons, [312], [323];
the custom of drinking from human skulls, [359].
See [Sacrifice].
“Water, Alchymical,” made of urine, [183].
“Water, Bitter,” of the Hebrews, [255].
“Water, Celestial,” [394], [398].
“Water, Fore-spoken,” [398], [399].
“Water, Lustral,” [240], [400].
“Water of All Flowers,” [366], [367].
See [Millefleurs].
“Water of Dung,” [199].
See [Excrement].
“Water of Juniper,” [398], [399].
“Water of Immortality,” made of mistletoe, [108].
Water worship,—see [Holy Water], [Lustration];
water used ceremonially by Moslems for ablutions after evacuation, [141], [142], [143];
by the Romans,—see [Latrines];
negresses of Guinea, pregnant for the first time, must bathe in the sea, [210], [211];
water in which a baby had been bathed for the first time, was drunk by the California Indian midwives, [239];
“yellow water” of the Feast of Holica, [432], [433], [434].
See also [Religion].
Weaning of children in Guinea, [211], [236].
Weddings,—see [Courtship and Marriage], [48];
Ur-orgies at Korak weddings, [65], [66], [67];
urine drunk at the weddings of the Tchuktchi, in Siberia, [228];
urine of the bride sprinkled upon guests at Moorish weddings, [228];
water in which the Russian bride has bathed, ditto, [231];
wine drunk at weddings may have superseded urine of the bride, in England, Ireland, etc., [228];
wine glasses broken at Jewish weddings, [228];
the urine of the medicine men was sprinkled upon the wedded couple among Hottentots, [228], [229];
urination through the wedding ring baffled witches, [230], [231].
Wells, Holy. See [Water Worship].
Whale dung, amber believed to be, [271];
ambergris, ditto, [271].
Wine, that used by fairies seems to have been urine, [87];
possibly superseded urine at weddings, [229];
wine-glasses broken at Hebrew weddings, [229], [230];
in witchcraft, [398];
in “cures by transplantation,”—see [Cures by Transplantation];
see under [Lingam], [429], [430], [431];
“Priapic Wine,” [429].
Witchcraft, [146], [200], [373 to 434] inclusive.
Lapland witches used poisonous fungi, [81], [86],—see [Fairies], “[Fairy Butter];”
garlic used by the Scandinavians to frustrate witches, [95];
and also by the Irish, [95];
mistletoe used for the same purpose, [107], [108];
witches could not hurt those who wore mistletoe or carried knives with handles made of it, [108], [109];
sacred powder frustrates witchcraft, [116];
witchcraft in connection with the building of the bridge of Respoden, [116];
Laps believe in the potency of human ordure and urine in, [184].
See [Cures by Transplantation], [Concluding Remarks], [Amulets and Talismans].
Wysoccan, the “Mad Potion,” [243].
Zoölatry. See [Animal Worship].

Transcriber’s Note

This index is imperfect. You’ll have to find some references yourself, as the indexer didn’t include them.