n-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
Mueller, 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, 15
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