This was written more than thirteen hundred years ago, and men to-day still call this part of Asia the Roof of the World.
INDEX.
INDEX.
A
Aaron's rod, [25]
Æschines, [18]
Agricola, [29]
Albertus, [84]
Animal instinct of cure by plants, [161]
Anthropomorphon, [84]
Architecture, Mysticism and Myth, [193]
Ahmed, Prince, [42]
Aristotle, [153]
Arthurian legends, [23]
Asterodia, [2]
Australian legends, [8], [20], [21]
B
Baaras, root of, [80]
Bacchus, [73]
Bacon, [68], [85]
Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, [37-39], [60], [61], [88]
Barth, [52]
Benjamin's sack, [49]
Beryl, the, [48]
the spirits of the, [48]
Bhása, [71]
Bion's Lament, [124]
Black Kaspar, [48]
Bodhi Tree, [199]
Book of Days, [73], [75]
Brand's Popular Antiquities, [97], [100], [107]
Breton legends, [8]
British Guiana legends, [8-20]
Britomart, [50]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [28], [29], [83]
Browning's, Mrs., Dead Pan, [80]
Buddha's foot, [11]
'Bull-roarer,' the, [17], [18]
Bushman legend, [63]
C
Cagliostro, [51]
Cain in the Moon, [62]
Cambuscan's mirror, [49]
Camelon, [27]
Capnomancy, [13]
Cat and the Well, [6]
Catoptromancy, [50]
Celestial Paradise, [189]
Chaldæo-Babylonian legends, [92]
Chaucer, [49], [62]
Chinese legends, [20], [95]
Cingalese legends, [11]
Circaea, or Enchanter's Nightshade, [81]
Circe, [82]
Cleopatra, [79]
Clover leaf, the, [130]
Coles' Art of Simpling, [86]
Columbus, [107]
Columella, [84]
Conway's Demonology, etc., [24], [71], [72], [85], [95]
Cornish legends, [66-103]
Cox and Jones's Tales of Teutonic Lands, [2], [3], [7], [9]
Cronus, [8], [9], [20]
Crusade legends, [129], [136]
Crusades, the, [13], [93]
Cupid, [124]
D
Danae, [5]
Dante, [62]
Davy Jones, [114]
Dawn Myths, [2], [5], [6]
Dee's, Dr., Spherical Speculum, [48], [50]
De Gubernatis, [72]
Dekker's Wonderful Year, [147]
Delphi, [19]
Demeter, [19]
Demosthenes, [18]
Dessoir, Max, [56]
Devil's Kettles, [95]
Devil's Punch-bowls, [95]
Devonian legends, [65], [122], [127]
Dioscorides, [134]
Divination by smoke, [15]
Divining-rod, the, [30-32]
Dove and the ark, [24]
'Duffy,' [114]
Dutch legend, [96]
E
Earth-man, [79]
Eden, the Garden of, [190]
Eastern idea of, [191]
Icelandic idea of, [191]
Mandeville's, Sir J., [192]
Somaliland, [192]
Prester John's, [190]
Ellacombe's Plant-Lore of Shakespeare, [149]
Endymion, [72]
Esquimo legend, [67]
Esthonian legend, [73]
Eucharist, the, [24]
F
Fairy-lore, [12], [13]
'Fairy-ring,' the, [12]
Feast of Demeter, [16]
Fian, Dr., [27]
Fleur de lys, the, [130]
Flying Dutchman, the, [96]
Folk-lore methods, [15], [16]
Bible, [88]
Friend's Flowers and Flower-Lore, [147]
G
Ganymede, [67]
Gargantua, legend of, [8]
Garlic (or 'Poor Man's Treacle'), Pliny on, [170]
Bacon on, [170]
Eastern belief in, [170], [173]
Garrett's Dictionary of India, [89]
Gaya and Buddha, [199]
Gerarde's Herball (1597), [81], [128]
Gerizim, [199]
German legends, [60], [93], [94]
Gesta Romanorum, [42]
Glam (the moon), [72]
Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, [50]
'Good folks,' [12]
Goodrich's, Miss, experiments in crystal-reading, [53-55]
Gordon-Cumming's, Miss, Wanderings in China, [64]
Greek legends, [3], [4], [10], [19], [21], [60], [67], [82], [127]
Grimm, Fairy Tales, [6], [66], [129]
H
Hades, [19]
Hamlet, [41]
Harpocrates, [124]
Hartmann, Dr. Franz, [46]
Hephaistos, [2]
Hera, [19]
Hermes, [82]
Herodotus, [29], [30], [63], [73]
Hesiod, [9]
Highland superstitions, [10], [12], [13]
Hindu legends, [20], [68], [71]
Holcroft, the actor, [116]
Holinshed, [27]
Holy Spirit, symbol of the, [24]
Homa, [87], [88]
'Hot-cross buns,' [77]
Hussin, [6]
Hutton's Jacob's Rod, [39]
Hydra, the, [93]
I
Icelandic legend, [95]
'Ink-pool,' the, [48]
Israfil, [196]
J
Jack and Jill, [61]
Jacques Aymar of Lyons, story of, [37], [38]
Jacob Boehme's tin cup, [49]
Jamieson, Dr., and the Moon, [60]
Jason and the Golden Fleece, [21]
Jewish legends, [60], [90]
Jobson, Richard (divining-rod), [34]
Jonah, [115]
Jonson's Tale of a Tub, [145]
Josephus, [65], [81]
Judas Iscariot, [62], [107]
K
Kaabah-stone, [198]
Kaffir legend, [20]
Kingsley's Water-Babies, [105], [111]
L
Lane's Magician, [51]
Lang's Custom and Myth, etc., [4], [8], [14], [17], [21], [30], [34], [66], [82]
Lao's looking-glass, [50]
Leek, the, in Welsh tradition, [171]
Legends:
Australian, [8], [20], [21]
Breton, [8]
Bushman, [63]
Ceylon, [11]
Chaldæo-Babylonian, [92]
Chinese, [20], [95]
Cornish, [66], [103]
Devonian, [65], [122], [127]
Dutch, [96]
Eskimo, [67]
Esthonian, [73]
German, [60], [93], [94]
Greek, [3], [4], [10], [19], [21], [50], [67], [82], [127]
Highland, [12]
Hindu, [20], [68], [71]
Icelandic, [95]
Jewish, [60], [90]
Kaffir, [20]
Lenormant, François, [93]
Lid of Hell, [195]
Malay, [8]
Maori, [62], [63]
North American, [8], [62]
of British Guiana, [8], [20]
of St. Cecilia, [129]
of St. David, [171]
of St. Patrick, [131]
of St. Peter, [109]
of the Crusaders, [129], [136]
Persian, [125]
Roman, [124]
Russian, [94], [110]
Scandinavian, [61]
Sicilian, [73]
Syrian, [93]
Talmudic, [92]
Zulu, [8]
Lethaby on Architecture and Myths, [193]
Levi, house of, [25]
Lhasis, [80]
Lien Chi Altangi, [50]
Lilly, John, [59]
Linnæus, story of, [33]
Lotus legends, [128]
the Buddhist, [127]
the Egyptian, [128]
Lucian, [59]
Luna, [63], [73]
M
Magic, [23]
Magellan, [107]
Malay legends, [8]
Mandrake, the, [78], [83]
anthropomorphon, [84]
or Devil's Apple, [85]
or Stone Apple, [85]
Mandura, [200]
Maori legends, [62], [63]
Mecca, [198]
Medea, [67]
Merlin's mirror, [49]
Michael Scott, [11]
Middle Kingdom, the, according to Herodotus, [189]
Eastern idea of, [189], [197], [200]
Jewish tradition of, [196]
Jupiter's, [193]
Mecca, the, [199]
Mexican tradition of, [195]
Prester John, [198]
Midsummer Night's Dream, [62]
Milbanke, Lady, [39]
Mister Storm-Along, [119]
Mohammed, legend of, [126]
Moonfolk, Lucian's, [59]
Moon-lore, Australian, [67]
Bushman, [67]
Egyptian, [67]
English, [70], [74], [76]
Eskimo, [67]
Greek, [67], [87]
Maori, [67]
North American Indian, [67]
South African, [67]
Moon, the, [2], [58]
Moon-worship, [76]
Moonwort, [153], [154]
Conway, Moncure, [155]
Culpeper, [154]
in Divine Weekes, [154]
in legend, [153]
Moses' rod, [25], [26], [29]
Mother Carey's chickens, [97], [104], [109]
Müller, Max, [9]
Mythology, Chinese, [63]
Eskimo, [63]
German, [133]
Greek, [10], [78], [121]
Hindu, [63], [87]
Scandinavian, [116]
Vedic, [72]
N
Nautical superstitions, [98], [100]
Navel of the World, [193]
Nebuchadnezzar, [28]
Neptune, [93]
Nether Lochaber, [12]
Nikke, [96]
North American legends, [8], [62]
O
Odin, [73]
Odysseus, [82]
Old Nick, [93]
Onion among the Romans, [167]
as food, [164]
Homer on, [167]
in The Arabian Nights, [165]
Juvenal on, [165]
Malagasy use of, [166]
Mohammedan legends of, [167]
myths, [168], [169]
Napoleon and, [174]
of the Greeks, [163], [165]
of Herodotus, [166]
Pliny on, [165], [167]
Shakespeare on, [163]
Sinclair, Sir J., on, [175]
Ophelia, [148]
Othello, [80]
P
Paracelsus's magic mirror, [43], [44]
Paradise, the Garden of, [190]
Parkinson the Herbalist, [151]
Penelope, [49]
Persian legend, [125]
Peter the Hermit, [13]
Pharaoh, [25]
Pleiades, the, [21]
Pliny, [132]
Plutarch, [73]
Pope Leo X., [107]
Poseidon, [19]
Potato, the, as food, [184]
Buckle on, [177]
Christopher Columbus and, [176]
folklore of, [183]
Gerarde on, [177]
in Scotland and Ireland, [181]
in Shakespeare, [179]
introduction into Europe, [176]
Sir Francis Drake and, [177]
Prince Zeyn Alasnam, story of, [42]
Proctor, R. A., [60]
Prose Edda, [71]
Prospero, [70]
Pryce's Mineralogia Cornubiensis, [32]
Pseudosia Epidemica, [83]
Pyromancy, [47]
Pythagoras, [84]
R
Rashi, [77]
Red Riding Hood, [5], [6]
Rhabdomancy, [28], [39]
Rhea, [19]
Riley's Book of Days, [64]
Rink, Dr., [63]
Rod, Moses', [25], [26]
of the house of Levi, [25]
the, [23]
the divining, [30], [32]
Roman legend, [124]
Romeo and Juliet, [79]
Rona in the Moon, [62]
Roof of the World, the, [100]
Rosemary, [123]
Roses, Feast of the, [125]
Rue as a disinfectant, [162]
as salad, [152]
derivation of, [150]
in Aristotle, [153], [159]
in Drayton, [153]
in Ellacombe's Plant-Lore of Shakespeare, [149]
in French perfumery, [152]
in Milton, [151]
in Parkinson, [151]
in Pliny, [157]
in Shakespeare, [149], [153]
in Spenser, [151]
in Warburton's works, [152]
Ruskin's Queen of the Air, [4]
Russian legend, [94], [110]
Ruth, [150]
Ryence, King, [50]
S
St. Brandan, [117]
St. Cecilia, legend of, [129]
St. Christophoros, story of, [26]
St. David, legends of, [171]
St. David's Day, origin of, [171]
St. Joseph, legend of, [127]
St. Nicholas, [93]
St. Patrick, [131]
St. Peter, legend of, [109]
St. Peter's Day, [110]
St. Ursula, [2], [3]
Satan, [79], [85]
Saturn, [8], [19], [20]
Scandinavian legend, [61]
Schliemann, Dr., [194]
Sea chanties, [119], [120]
Septuagint, the, [49]
Shakespeare, [2], [62], [79]
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, [92]
Shelvocke's voyages, [106]
Shew Stone, [50]
Sicilian legend, [73]
Sidney, Sir Philip, [72]
Solomon's Temple, [196]
Soma, [63], [87], [89], [90], [193]
Song of Sixpence, [5]
Sorcerer's Root, [78]
Spring Myths, [10]
Stormy petrel, [99]
Sung-Yun and the Pamirs, [200]
Superstitions:
Accadian, [16]
Aztec, [16]
Bushmen, [21]
Chinese, [75]
Greek, [16]
Highland, [10], [12]
Jewish, [16], [76]
Nautical, [98], [100], [117]
Peruvian, [16]
Red Indian, [16], 20
Sicilian, [16]
Syrian legend, [92]
T
Talmudic legend, [92]
Tannhäuser, [3]
Tylor's Primitive Culture, [5], [65]
Tempest, the, [70]
Theal's Kaffir Folklore, [18]
Thiselton-Dyer, [31], [34], [64], [78], [100], [131], [145]
Thistle, the, [132]
Stewart, Dr., on, [135]
of Dioscorides, [134]
Timbs, [79]
True Thomas of Ercildoune, [3]
Tûtenganahaû, story of, [20]
Tweed, the, [10]
Tylor, [6], [65]
Typhœus, [117]
U
Ulysses, [42]
Urim and Thummim, [49]
V
Vampire, the, [70]
Vedic Agni, [2]
Venus, [30]
Venus's looking-glass, [49]
Verne, Jules, [59]
Vervain of the Druids, [158]
Friend on the, [159]
of the Greeks, [158]
Thiselton-Dyer on, [158]
Virgin Mary, [106]
Von Bülow's Christian Legends of Germany, [26]
Vulcan's mirror, [49]
W
Warburton, [152]
Warts, the cure of, [160]
'White Rose Day,' [125]
Winslow, Forbes, [76]
Winter's Tale, The, [149]
Winter Myths, [10]
Witches' broom, the, [70]
Witches' Mannikin, [78]
Wolf and Seven Little Kids, [6], [7], [9], [66]
Wurmbrand's Visionen im Wasserglass, [53]
Y
Yama, [193]
Yggdrasil, [193]
Z
Zafarana, [73]
Zeus, [19], [67]
Zillah, legend of, [126]
Zulu legend, [8]