P
Padishah (Sultan).
Marko fears his foes will calumniate him to, [107];
Vlah-Ali the rebel of the, 123;
Stephan Yakshitch taken before the, [178];
Stephan Yakshitch tempted to abjure the Holy Cross by, [178]
Paganism.
The religion and the, of the Serbians, [14]–53;
only partially abolished from the Balkans, [30]
Palm Sunday.
Serbian festivities on, [52]
Panthelias, St.
Mention of, in Serbian ballad “The Saints Divide the Treasures,” [195];
great heats chosen by, [196]
Paul.
One of the brothers in the Serbian ballad “The Stepsisters,” [206]–210
“Pavilion neither in the Sky nor on the Earth, A.”
A Serbian legend, [220]–224
“Pea-hens, The Nine.”
A Serbian folk-tale, [267]–280
“Pepelyouga” (Cinderella).
A Serbian legend, [226]–230;
alternative name of, Marra, [226]–229
Peroon.
The Russian God of Thunder, [15];
name preserved in village “Peroon,” and in plant “Peroonika,” [15]
Peter I, King. Son of Alexandre Karageorgevitch;
his glorious rule, [11];
George Petrovitch grandfather of, [175];
Empire lost by Tsar Lazarus regained under, [176]
Peter II.
Archbishop of Montenegro, and belief in vampires, [22]
Peter, St.
Mention of, in Serbian ballad “The Saints Divide the Treasures,” [195];
wine, wheat and the Keys of the Heavenly Empire chosen by, [196];
“St. Peter and the Sand,” a Serbian popular anecdote, [362]
Petrovitch, George. Turkish designation Karageorge (‘Black George’).
A gifted Serbian who led a successful insurrection against the Turks in 1804, [9], [175];
cruelly assassinated by order of Milosh, [10]
Petrovitch, Nicholas I.
See Nicholas
Petrovitch, Peter. The popular Serbian poet;
reference to his masterpiece on Gorsky Viyenatz (“The Mountain Wreath”), [56]
Petrovitch, Vladika Danilo. Uncle of present king of Montenegro;
first assumed the title of Prince as a hereditary one, [184]
Pirlitor. Alternative, Piritor.
The white city opposite the mountain Dourmitor, the walls of the castle of which it is said still exist in Herzegovina, [186];
Vidossava punished by the castle, [193]
Pisistrate’s Epoch.
The learned Diascevastes of, [54]
Pleiades.
Serbian equivalent, Sedmoro Bratye (‘The Seven Brothers’), [22]
Podgoritza.
Captain Yovan’s five hundred men of, [139]
Poetry, Epic.
The Serbian national, [54]–58
Pogatcha.
The Serbian wedding cake, [38]
Polaznik.
A Serbian visitor, [50]
Pope, The.
Stevan Tomashevitch fails to get help from, [8]
Poretch. The district of;
Milo and Milosh arrive at, [105]
Porphyrogenete, Constantine.
According to, the Serbians adopted the Christian faith at two different periods, [28]
Potzerye, Milosh of.
Bogdan the Bully and, [87]–89;
General Voutcha and, [89]–94;
the veela Raviyoyla and, [102]–105
Predestination.
Serbians believe in immortality and, [18]
Priepolyé.
A youth from, admires Milosh-the-Shepherd’s steed, Koulash, [157]
“Priest, The, why drowned.”
A Serbian popular anecdote, [364]
Prilip.
Serbian belief that Prince Marko is asleep in castle at, [64];
Prince Marko’s appearance at battle of, in November, 1912, [64];
Archdeacon Nedelyko bids the four tabors appeal to Marko at, [67];
the Sultana’s dream concerning, [74];
Milosh sends a messenger to, [90];
Marko imprisons Voutcha and Velimir in, [93], [94]
Prisrend.
Theodor arrives at, and reports to Tsar Doushan the result of his mission, [151], [152];
Tsar Doushan’s return to, [168]
Ptolemy.
Greek geographer, describes the Serbians, [1]