P
Parsee wedding, a, [123]
—— women and children, [122]
Parsees or Zoroastrians, [28], [120];
ceremony at death, [127]
Patchwork and embroidery of Resht, [46]
Patriarch of the Nestorians, the, how he is chosen, [189]
Peacock, the, the symbol of the Yezidee religion, [286]
Persia, the Land of the Lion and the Sun, [19];
inhabitants of, [28];
industries of, [40];
agricultural industries of, [47];
climate of, [50]
Persian desert, illness in the, [17]
Persians, procrastinating character of the, [60];
their politeness, [81];
superstitions of the, [166]
—— of to-day, the, [28]
Phillott, Major, his fight against the sweating of children, [45]
Pilgrimages, [107]
Pirs, the, an order of priesthood amongst the Yezidees, [287]
Poppy, the cultivation of the, [48]
Prayer, the call to, [107]
Prayer stones in Sheikh Âdi’s shrine, [292]
Prince’s vagaries, a, [92]
Pulivagoon, the village of, [62]