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A.
Abominable charms, 120
Acorns, Song of the, 221
Adelheit von Helbach, 229
Æolian harp, 166
Agnes, St., Invocation, 76
Agnostics, 213
Albordi, 57
Algonkin Legends of New England, 69
Alraun, root image, 153
Alsatian gypsy girl and shell, 233, 234
Al Sirat, 57
Alter-ego, or the Dream-power, 165, &c.
Amber beads, 198
American Folk-Lore Journal, 218, 227
Amulets and fetishes, 234
Amulets, 228, &c.
Animals, Charms to protect, 79–99
Anna, Santa, the Lucina of the Romans, 101
Antony, Saint, 64, 135
Apple (love-charm), 140, 141
Archæology—Ethnology, ix
Arnold, Matthew xi, 215
Aroint, Etymology of, 199
Artificial propagation, 101
Ashes of dress (love-charm), 120
Assisi, St. Francis, shells, 234
Astral spirit, 166
At-was-kenni-ges, an Algonkin giant-spirit, 17
Augustus, Emperor, punished a city-father for eating a quail, 90
Axe-heads, Stone, in trees, 18
B.
Badger, Foot of a (love-charm), 120
Baricellus, J. C., 46
Bath, Incident near, 180
Bath Kol, the Voice, &c., 220, 238
Batford, J. C., divination by hair, 124
Bat in gypsy sorcery, 92
Bears’ claws and teeth as amulets, 26
Beauty, a real existence, 187
Begotten by goblins, People, 206
Benediction, 42
Benemmerinnen, Hebrew witches, 63
Bergmänner, or Mountain Dwarfs, 131, 132
Bernoni, Works of, 156
Berserkers (note), 145
Bertha, the Dream-sprite, 167
Berufen, overlooked or bewitched, 51, 56
Betham, Sir William, Eugubœan Tablets, 211
Bhut, Hindoo malignant spirit, 9, 10, 11
Bill, the imaginary companion, 3
Billy Dawson, the Wise Man of Stokesley, 197
Bird’s nest, Hair in, 121
Black dog, 60, 61, 62
Black Hen, Fast of the, 137
Blavatsky, Mme., 171
Blessing of the Syrups, Oil, &c., 150
Block, Dr., corpse-candle superstition, xii
Blocksberg, 30
Blood, Charm with, 119, 120
Boars’ tusks worn as amulets, 26, 27, 102, 103; engraving, 103
Bodinus, 240
Bogey, Bog, Buh, Boggar, Bogle, Bo-guest, Boll, Boman, &c., 161
Bogomiles, 36, 63
Bolton, Carrington H., Counting-out Rhymes, 218–220, 225
Book of Fate and works on Fortune-telling, xvi
Booth, General, his devil-drivers, 5
Borrow, G., Hokkani bāro, 211
Bratraneck, Beiträge zur Æsthetik der Pflanzenwelt, 53
Bridge, 57
Broom to keep spirits or witches away, 136
Brown, Mrs., 214
Brown study, reverie: when the mind is abstracted from certain subjects dream-power partially acts, 169
Buckland, Lizzie, a gypsy woman, 144
Budge cured by a song: gypsies mere Budges, 22
Buzz, To cry, 200
Byron, staff-rhymes, 43, 166
C.
Cabalists, 238
Cake, Gypsy, 143, 144
Callot and gypsies, 258
Calvin, 239
Candle, in love-charm, 120
Candles, Blessed, 42
Cane inspired by a spirit, 229
Carlyle, Thomas, 185
Carmen mirum ad Glandulas, 221
Carpenter (“Physiology”), 163
Casket, Gypsy, to send away disease, 15, 16
Cassel, P., “Die Symbolik des Blutes,” 87
Castellani, 229
Castor Oil, Benediction of, 150
Cat, Swinging a, 136
Cato, incantations, 54
Cedrenus, 238
Centaurs, 126
Chagrin, a gypsy demon, 91, 92, 93
Chaldean magic, Shamanic, 62, 63
Chapter I.: Origin of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Sorcery—Vindictive and Mischievous Magic, 1–12
Chapter II.: Charms and Conjurations to cure disorders of grown people—Hungarian Gypsy Magic, 12–41
Chapter III.: Gypsy Conjurations and Exorcisms—The cure of children—Hungarian gypsy spells—Curious old Italian secret—Magic virtues of garlic—A Florentine incantation learned from a witch—Lilith, the child-stealer and Queen of the Witches, 41–65
Chapter IV.: South Slavonian and other Gypsy Witch-lore—The words for a witch—Vilas and the spirits of earth and air—Witches—Egg-shells and egg-lore—Egg Proverbs—Ova de Crucibus, 65–79
Chapter V.: Charms to protect Animals, 79–100
Chapter VI.: Of Pregnancy, and Charms and Folk-lore connected with it—Boars’ teeth and styptic charms, 101–107
Chapter VII.: Recovery of stolen property—Love-charms—Shoes and love-potions, or philtres, 108–121
Chapter VIII.: Roumanian and Transylvanian Sorceries and Superstitions, connected or identical with those of the Gypsies, 122–141
Chapter IX.: Rendezvous of Witches, Sorcerers, and Vilas—Continuation of South Slavonian Gypsy-lore, 142–151
Chapter X.: Haunts and Homes of Witches in South Slavic lands—Bogeys and Humbugs, 152–161
Chapter XI.: Gypsy Witchcraft, the magical power innate in all men and women—How it may be developed—The principles of Fortune-telling, 162–185
Chapter XII.: Fortune-telling continued—Romance based on chance or hope as regards the future—Folk-and Sorcery-lore—Authentic gypsy predictions, 186–193
Chapter XIII.: Proverbs referring to Witches, Gypsies, and Fairies, 194–208
Chapter XIV.: A Gypsy Magic Spell—Lellin Dudikabin, or the Great Secret—Children’s Rhymes and Incantations—Ten Little Indian Boys and Acorn Girls of Marcellus Burdigalensis, 209–229
Chapter XV.: Gypsy Amulets, 230–254
Chapter XVI.: Gypsies, Toads, and Toad-lore, 255–260
Charles the Simple (straw), 32
Charley Boy, a child’s song, 22
Charms and Conjurations to cure disorders of grown people, 12
Chen, the Sun, 50
Chesme, the Turkish fountain-cat nymph, 132, 133
Childbirth Sorceries, 47, 48, 49
Children, Why gypsies steal, 147
Child, To know if a woman is with, 101; to recover stolen property, 110
Child’s blood used in magic, 86, 87
Child-stealing, 62
Chinese bottles, 229
Chiromancy among gypsies, 176
Chov-hani, gypsy for witch, 67
Christian scientist, metaphysical doctor, &c., 23
Church influence, 157
Cin-vat, 57
Coals in magic, 51, 52, 54, 60
Cœna demonum, or demons’ supper, 136
Collecting in Folk-lore, x, xii
Conceptions, Supernatural, developed with the mind, 4, 5
Conception, To promote, 100, 101
“Conditions for the Survival of Archaic Customs,” by G. L. Gomme, Arch. Rev., 1890, xv
“Congrès des Traditiones populaires” of 1889, x
Conscious will, 168
Constantine, Bath of Blood, 238
Convulsive weeping, 60
Cordus (Elder), 30
Cornelius Agrippa, 53; and la haute Magie, xvi
Corpse-candle superstition, xiii
Counting-out Rhymes and Spells, Chapter XIV.
Cowries, used as amulets, 102
Crab, Ashes of, in bewitching, 120
Cramp (night), Spell against, 36
Cromagnon, The Man of, 6
Cross on a grave, 106
Cross-road, Spell of the, 118, 119, 152
Cross-roads, gypsy meeting-place, 152
Crow, Eye of a (love-charm), 120
Cuckoo, Song of, an omen, 18
Cups and goblets, Divination by, 227
D.
Dancing naked, 158
Dancing, Witch and gypsy, 158, 159
Danku Niculai, 45
Darwin, x
David, the Slavonian Jew, 249
Dead Man’s Hand, xiii
De Injuriis, &c. (straw), 32
Delancre, Pierre, on witch-dancing, 158
Delrio, 149, 240
“Denham Tract,” 197
Desbarolles, 176, 181
Design and Minor Arts, 171
Devil believed to be the direct cause of all pain, evil, and sin, 13
Devil’s bridges, 57
Devil doctrines among Red Indians, 13
Devilism to Polytheism, thence Pantheism, thence Monotheism, 157
Devla or Del, the gypsy highest god, 69
Dialen, Roumanian fairies, 67
Diana, a cat-goddess, 132, 133
Diana and Herodias, 37, 64
Diana, Dina, Gana, Sina, Queen of the Witches, 132, 133
Dietrich the Thuringian, 159
Diseases: all diseases anciently believed to be caused by devils, 13, 149, 150
Dogs, Descent from, 71; a love-charm, 112
Dolls, Ancient, 167
Donkeys, Blessing of, 42
Dragomanoff, Prof., 32, 39
Drawing and designing, 166
Dream-book, xvi
Dream, Narrative of a, 164
Dream, the dream-power, faculty, or function by which memories are loosened and recombined, while will is suspended, 162–185
Dreams caused by a second Me or an action of the brain independent of common sense, 14
Dream-power—its action penetrates more or less into all working life, 169
Drum, Picture of Lapland magic, 79; or tambourine, Gypsy, 80; Turkish, 80; used in divination by all Shamanic sorcerers, 79
Dschuma, the cholera-witch, 133
Dualism, result of Monotheism, 157
Du Cange, 224
Dūdikabin, to lel, 211
Duncan, Geilles, a witch, 198
E.
Easter-eggs, Red, 78
Easter Monday, sprinkling with water, 139
Ecco l’imbasciatore, song, 225
Edda, 71
Edison, x
Education, Practical, 3
Eggs and eggshells, Superstitions and stories referring to, 72, 73, 74, 75
Eggs in childbirth, 49
Egg-lore, a cosmogenic symbol, 77
Egg proverbs, 77, 78
“Egyptian Sketch Book,” 146
Elder-bark, 28, 29, 30
Ellekoner, Elfwoman, Danish, 67
Ellhorn (Elder), Frau, 29
Else, die rauhe, 69
Elysseeff, Dr. A., 107–40, 208, 251
Emerson, R. W., 57
“English Gypsies and their Language, The,” by C. G. Leland, 203
Entering new houses, 137
Eos, goddess of Aurora, 28
Era, a New, in Thought, 8
Erysipelas, Cure for, 28
Esculapius, and serpent, 38
Estmere, Sir, Percy Ballads, 159
Euguane, Roumanian fairies, 67
Evil-eye, charm against it, 51, 52, 54, 57
Exorcism, 42, 43
Eyes, Pain in, Incantation for, 27
F.
Fairies, Queen of the, 63; varieties of, 67; proverbs, 202
Fairy-rings, 68
Faith-cure, 23
Fanggen, Fänken, Nörkel, the fairies of the Tyrol, 67
Fascinator, Eye of, 2
Faust, Gypsy puppet-show of, 245, 246
Faw Gang, The, 201
Fetishism and Shamanism, 157
Fever demon, 20, 63
Fevers, cured, 12, 16, 17; cured by digging hole, &c., 18, 19; with a kreuzer, &c., 19; cured by water, &c., 19, 20
Fichte, J. G., 174
Fire, Charm against, 40
Fish and brandy, a charm, 119
Florentine fortune-teller, 225
Folding mirror, The, 166
Folk-lore perfects the study of History, 188 Red Indian Folk-lore suffered to perish, 188
Folk-lore, Transmission of, 123
Foot-print, Earth from a, used in a love-charm, 112
Fortune-teller in Florence on sorcery, xiv.
Fortune-telling by canary birds, &c., 183
Fortune-telling, Spirit of Gypsy, 174
Friedrich, J. B., “Symbolik der Natur,” 29, 52, 76, 96, 117, 128, 132, 138, 235
Frog bones used as an amulet, 26
Frog incantation, 13; love-potion, 119
Frogs, used to cure fever, 12
G.
Gabalis, Comte de, 46
Galton, Francis, x, 184
Gana (Diana), queen of the witches, 132
Gander-goose, Orchis maculata, used in love-potions, 119
Ganet, Dom Leitas (Dona Branca ou a Conquista do Algarve), 72
Garlic, used in magic, 52, 91, 92, 97, 98, 136
Garzonius nel Serraglio, 46
Gaster, Dr., 37, 39, 63
George, St., his Day, Eve, 118, 142, 143, 147, 148
Gerard, Mrs. E., “Land beyond the Forest,” 126, 127, 130, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 207
Gertrude, German queen of the witches, 133
Gessler and his hat, 242
Gettatura, witch signs, 200
Goat-lore, 83, 84
Gookin, Mother, straw-man, 32
Graff, 223
Grass, a love-charm with, 111; old custom, 112
Grease, Axle, &c., 148, 149
Gregor (Queen), Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland, 76
Grillandus, Paulus, 64, 149; on Torture, 240, 242
Grimm (“Deutsche Mythologie”), 29, 54, 112; acorn song, 222, 223, 224
Groome, Francis, 159
Grosius, Magica, 238
Gubernatis, Count Angelo de, on heathenism in Tuscany, xiv, 105, 126, 133, 135, 138, 223
Guin, Kam, Chen-Guin, 50
Gun, Enchanted, 131
Gypsies and old age, 47
“Gypsies, The,” by C. G. Leland, 209
Gypsies: their dissemination of Folk-lore, x, xi; basis of Gypsy Sorcery, xi; Gypsy Sorcery not exhausted in this work, but only used to illustrate the main subject, xii. Affinity with the Indian Dom—How gypsies became fortune-tellers, 2, 3; came from India, 8
Gypsy Conjurations, Chapter III.
Gypsy dancing: the debauched dancing of witches possibly of gypsy origin, 158
Gypsy divination, the action of the Dream-power or Alter-ego, 173
Gypsy fortune-teller in Cairo, 235, 236
Gypsy incantation, A, &c., 209
Gypsy-Lore Journal, 208
Gypsy, Lucky to meet a, 129, 130
Gypsy religion, 70; sorcery, 159, 160
Gypsy Sorcery mingled with Slavonian, 65, 66
H.
Hair, a means of fascination, 98; Charms for the, 23, 24, 25; superstitions, &c., 24, 25, 26, 60, 92, 93, 120, 121
Hale, Prof. Horatio, “On the Origin of Language,” 3; instances of children, 4
Half a horse, half alligator, 127
Halliwell, def. “humbug,” 16
Hand, Oath by the, 110
Hare, Counting-out rhyme and incantation, 224, 225
Harginn, Chagrin, an Indian demon, 91
Hawthorne, N. P., 31
Hazel, Lady, 196
Head, bumped, Charm for, 61
Headache, Remedy for, with incantation, 21
Heine, definition of ideas, 7, 43, 130; prophecy, 184, 228; witch poem, 244
Hell-shoon, 113
Hen, Black, Sorcery and superstitions connected with, 21; egg of black hen, 90, 91, 127, 128
Henry, Joseph, Prof., 177
Hermann, Prof. Dr. A., xi, 45, 105
Hermanstadt, Lake near, where the devil brews storms, 129
Hermes Trismegistus, 171
Hemorrhages, Menses, Profluvium or flow of blood: to cause or to prevent it, 101, 103, 104; old German and Roman spells for flow of blood, 104
Herodias, 36, 37, 64
Hindoo Priest, The, a low type of Shaman, 9, 10
Hole in a tree, 62
Holle, Frau, a lady, 29
Holy Virgin, cramp, 36
Horns of cattle, wreathed as spell, 143
Horse, Charms to protect, 81, 82, 84, 97; to recover a stolen, 109
Horst, “Dæmonomagia,” 64, 244
Humbug, Origin of the word, 161
Husband, Spells to know the future, 117
Hypnotism, x
I.
Incantations, Florentine, used in divining by cards, 44
“Index librum prohibitorum,” 241
Indian (American) trader named Ross, Anecdote of, 179
Indian, Red, views of marvels and supernatural power, 179
Indians, or Hindoos, not all of the religions of Brahma or Buddha, 9
Innocent, Pope, Bull of, 240
Interlacing and serpentine patterns intended to bewilder and negative the evil eye, 98
Invisible, How to become, 148
Iona, the jade pebbles of, 249
Irish, Earse, Aryan, 123
Irving, Washington, 226
“Isis Unveiled,” 7
Italian Witchcraft, 155, 156; story of Florentine witch, 156
J.
Jandra, 40
Jeremia, Pope, 63
Job, Book of, moon-worship forbidden in it, 50, 51
John, St., witches meet on Eve of St. John or St. George, 143; kill cows, 144, 145
Jonson, Ben, staff-rhymes, 43
Joule, x
Jug of water, lucky to meet a woman carrying, 130
K.
Kay, David, memory, 162, 171
Keats, 166
Kelley, “Indo-European Folk-lore,” 114
Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” 202, 203
Kerner, Justinus, 166
Kerr, Bellenden, old Dutch, 214
Key, To find a, 113
Klek, The tavern-keeper of; a witch wife, 73
Klingsohr, a Zingar wizard, 159
“Knaben Wunderhorn, Des,” 196
Knife, 230–231; in sorcery, 61
Knots, Love, 139
Knots of hair, 93; knots in willow-twigs, 110, 111
Kornmann, H., “Curiosa,” 146
Kounavine, M., 40, 107, 208, 251
Krauss, Dr. F. S., of Vienna, his works, xi, 65, 66, 67, 69, 73, 142, 145, 148, 152, 247–248
Kugler, “Handbuch Geschichte der Malerei,” 235
Kukaya, origin of the gypsy tribe so called, 70, 71
L.
Lada, Slavonian Venus, 138
Lady or spirit in the well, 137
Laki, Lakshmi, 107
La Motte Fouqué, Undines, 146
Language, Origin of, 3, 4; denied to the earliest types of man, 6
Lantern, The Fairies’, 203
Latche romni, or female magicians in Hungary, 46
Latour, Charlotte de la, “Symbols of Flowers” (straw), 31
Layard, Sir H. Austen, 235
Leek, Magic virtues of, 53
“Legends of the Birds,” by C. G. Leland, 154
Leidy, Dr. Joseph, 250
“Leitner, Dr., Results of a Tour in Dardistan, Kashmir,” &c., 91
Leland, Charles Godfrey: the Algonkin Indians, &c., 55
“Le Normant, Magie Chaldaienne,” 44, 62
Lettuce, Divination by, 54
Levi, Eliphaz (l’Abbé Constant), 238
Lïbussa, Queen of Bohemia: Slavic lore, 115
Liebich, R. (“Die Zigeuner”), 110, 215
Liebrecht, J., 91
Lightment, theft (old cant), 211
Lightning averted by sticking a knife into a loaf of bread, 128
Lilith, or Herodias, 36, 37, 62, 63, 64
Lime or linden tree, 138
Ljesje, Russian fairies, 67
Lob’s Pound, 202
Lockyer, Norman, x
Lord and Lady Cramp, Disease, Vampire and Wehrwolf, 37
Lord of the Forest, 131
Lorent, “Hist. de l’Inquisition,” 254
Love-charm from English gypsy, 53
Love incantations, 111
M.
Mac Ritchie, “Earth Houses and their Inhabitants”; “The Testimony of Tradition,” 70
Magdalen, Mary, 138
Magic brought by gypsies to Europe, xi; as prevalent in some form now as ever, xv
Magic power of Dreams, Chapter XI.; the production of what is not measured by waking-will, 163
Magnusen, Fin, on the Elder-tree, 28, 29
Malocchio, 103
Mama padura, or Weshni dye, the forest-mother, 130
Manes, 64
Man, Primitive, and his religion, 6
Marcellus Burdigalensis, charm for toothache, &c., 54, 61, 102, 104, 221, 224
Maria Theresa Dollars, 231, 232
Marvels: all marvels and miracles begin and end with man himself, 171
Mascot, 147
Mashmurdalo, The gypsy sylvan giant, 8; invocation to, 16
Maudsley, on Attention and Interest, 172
Meal, 52, 56, 58, 59
Memory, latent power: how it may be developed, 171
Men first made from leaves, 94; or from trees, 94
Menzel, Christh., “Symbolik,” 256
Merbitz, J. V., “De Infantibus Supposititiis,” 60
Miklosich, 50
Milk the tether, To, 199
Milles, Dean, MS. (“humbug”), 161
Millni, “Gallerie Mythologique,” 237
Milton, John, attributes all disease to sin and the devil, 150
Mirandola, Picus de, 64
Mole, 223, 224
Moncrief Maradan, “The Historiogriffe of Cats,” 137
Monotheism, 157
Moon, Full, charms, 50
Moon, in incantation, 85
Moon-worship, 50, 51
Morgan, C. Lloyd, 130
Mors, Mars, 125
Mountain Monk, 132
N.
Naglfara, the ship made of dead men’s nails, 71
Nails, 71, 147
Nakedness in witch-spells, 133, 134, 135
Name, Nav, 220
Names suffice for explanations with many people, 177, 178
Nano, a Hindoo Gypsy, 230, 231
Nature, No violation of the laws of, 178
Negro-Gypsies, 215
Nettle, The, in gypsy and other Folk-lore, 95
Newell, W. W., 227
Night side of Nature, The true, 168
Nivasi, or Nivashi, spirits of earth, 46, 48, 56, 60, 69
Norden “Reise nach Aegypten,” 228
Nose-bleeding charm, 39, 61
Nyerup, Lexicon, on the Elder-tree, 29
O.
Oakley, Mr.: Indian snake-charmers, 131
Oameni micuti, small men, 131
Odin, 159
Oliana, the Slavonic spirit of water, 35
Olof Tryggvasen, 113
Om ren, the wild man, 131
Ora de Crucibus, or eggs with crosses on them, 78
Oriental origin of Slavonian and Hungarian Folk-lore, 155
Origin of witch-meetings, 142, 143
Orken, Roumanian fairies, 67
Owen, Miss Mary, of St. Joseph, Missouri, 99
P.
Palace in Italy long closed, 167
Pale Boshe, 45
Panusch, or Pan, 130
Paphnutius, St., Incantations to, 33
Paracelsus, Fairy mythology, 67
Paraschiva, Venus, 125
Patterns in Persian carpets made intricate to avert witchcraft and the evil eye, 98
Paul, St., prayer against snakes, 38
Pchuvasi, spirits of water, 46, 48, 49; ancestors of a gypsy tribe, 70
Pchuvus’ wife, 59; Pchuvus, Incantation to, 61
Peacocks, 154
Peel or Primrose witches, 155
Peklo, Pikuljk, a Lithuanian god, 29
Periani, Parjandra, Perun, 40
Persian dancers, 158
Peru urphu, 117
Peter Pindar (Wolcott), 217
Peter, St. (toothache), 38
Phooka, 204
Phynoderee, Manx fairy, 203
Pig as an amulet, 102
Pigwiggan, a fairy, 204
Pipernus, P., “De Effectibus Magicis,” 46, 64, 149
Pixey, 202
Plato, Memory according to, x, 220
Pliny incantations, 54
Plundering of peasants by gypsies, 214, 215, 216
Poetical and artistic composition always the result of awakening the Dream faculty, 166; its action asleep or waking, 166
Porcellana, porcella, porcelain, 102
Portalis, “Couleurs Symboliques,” 28
Potions, Revolting, 127
Povodne Vile, Slavonian water-spirits, 69
Pozemne Vile, Slavonian earth-spirits, 69
Prætorius, J., Witch-ride and Elder, 30; meal, 58, 59, 63, 78; on gypsies, 176, 177
“Practical Education,” by C. G. Leland, 171, 184
Prag, Prague, cemetery, 30
Prediction and Prophecy, their origin, 189
Prediction, Unconscious, by the author, Two instances of, 174
Pregnancy, 101, 102
Priccolitsh, Priculics, 62
Priest, Unlucky to meet a, 129
Princess, The, and boots, 116
Prschemischl, Legend of shoes, 115, 116
Property, To recover stolen, 109, 110
Prophecy developed by unconscious action of Memory and Dream-power, 169, 170
Pscipolnitza, Flox goddess, 125
Pudding, The Witch’s, 56
Puschkeit, a form of Pluto, 29
Pythagoras, 220
Q.
Quail, the devil’s bird, 89; the Quail in Greek mythology, 89, 90
Quails used to cure cattle, 87, 88
Quail-weed (Wachtelkraut), 90
Quatrefages, M. de, 6
Queen of England, Her Majesty the, 247, 248
Queen, The, extract from, relative to witches and eggs, 75, 76
Quickness of perception, 172
Quintus Serenus, garlic, 136
R.
Radical function of Dream-power, to prevent images from being forgotten, 169
Rainbow, Pointing at, 128
Ravens, The Seven, 51, 52
Read, T. B., the poet, 165
Religion: Sorcery called the “old religion” in Tuscany, xiv
Ribbon, Red or yellow, 113
Richmond, John Bell, 197
Richter, Jean Paul, 185
Ring, Charm with a, 118
Robin and wren, 127
Romance, Life requires, 186
Roman Catholic magic, exorcisms, incantations, &c., 149, 150, 151
Roots, Magic power of, 153
Rose, Plucking a, 106
Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits, 67
Roth, Rudolf, “Litteratur und Geschichte des Veda,” 54
Roumanian superstitions, 121, 125
Rowan tree, charm against witches, 197, 198
Rules, Infallible, for fortune-telling, 182, 183
Running water, Divination by means of, 55, 56
Rynt, aroint, 199
S.
Sacramental bread and wine used by witches for sorcery, 149
Sacrifices, Human, 14, 15
Sacrifices one of the first results of supernatural fear, 5
Saga, Hervor, Gautrek, Olof Tryggvason’s, 145
Saints’ days and Shamanism, 126
Salt used in sorcery, 19; salt dreaded by devils, 19
Salves, Magic, 20
Samovile, or samodivi, 67
Saxon superstitions, 126
Scapegoat, Gypsy, 15
Scent revolver, 139
Schafarik, “Slawische Alterthümer,” Shoe-lore legend, 115
Schlemihl, Peter, 116
Scholomance (Salamanca), 128
Schwenki (“Myth. der Slaven”), 29
Science, Enlarged views in, ix, x
Scissors or shears in sorcery, 128
Scotch clergyman, Anecdote of, 118
Scott, W., “Lady of the Lake,” 55
Seventh sons and daughters, 45, 46
Serpent, Charm against, 35, 38
Servetus, burned by Calvin, 239
Seven League Boots, 116
Shakespeare staff-rhymes, 43
Shamanism: its first stage, or witchcraft in a rude form, 6; Shamanic magic of Tartar origin, 8; Shamanism, or early witchcraft, still the prevalent faith of the lower orders in India, 9; worship of water, 34, 35 (Incantation), 35; Shamanic exorcisms, xiii, xiv, Chap. III., 124, 157
Shaman, The, his origin and influence on man, 5
Shelley, 166
Shells as amulets and as used in sorcery, 102, 232, 233, 234, &c.
Shoe-string, an amulet, 246, 247
Shoe love-charm, A, 113; Shoe-lore, 113–117; symbol of life, 114
Sights, scents, and tastes by telegraph, 175
Silver, or a white object, peace, 113
Simeon and Antony, Saints, 126
Sisinie, St., Invocation to, 36
Siva, 52
Skeat, “Et. Dict.” 197
Skidbladnir, 73
Skogsnufvaz, Swedish fairies, 67
Skulls of horses and cattle used for charms, 127, 128
Snails, Magic and Folk-lore connected with, 96, 97; incantation to, 223
Somersaults, Turning, to be free from pains in the back, 129
Song conducive to cure, 22
Songs used in sorcery, 98
Sorceresses in Hungary, 46
Spiridsui, Spiridush, an attendant spirit, 136
Spirit of Earth in saffron, 27
Spirit, Struck by: to cure sore caused by a spirit’s blow or breath, 20, 21
Spirits, Elementary, the Vilas-Sylvana, 67
Sprenger, 240
Staff-rhymes, 43
Standard (London), Fetishism from the, xiii, xiv
Stanko, Story of, and the Vila, 68
St. James’s Gazette on the corpse candle, xiii; on the Hindoo priest, 9; scent revolver, 139; on peacocks, 152
Stoddard, R. H., 254
Stokepitch’s can, 202
Stomach, Pains in the, 61, 62
Stones thrown when a child is born, 135
Story, W. W., “Castle, St. Angel,” 26, 27
Straw, Straw-lore, 30, 31, 32, 60
Strega, Strege, 63
Strix, Strighoi, Streghe, from “stringere,” to strangle, 135
Stupidus, or the dumb god, in Latin, German and Sanskrit tradition, 104, 105
Supernatural, First effort of the mind towards the, xiii; instinctive creation of, 3
Superstition allied to religion, xiv; prevalent in all classes, xv
Swallows, luck-bringing birds, 127, 128
Swine, Charm to protect, 85, 93
Swords and knives used by executioners, 230, 231
Szegedin, Gypsy in, Story of, 192, 193
T.
Taboo, 109
Teeth, cures and charms, 25, 26
Ten Little Indian Boys, 221
Tennessee, Inhabitants of, reverting to the Red Indian type, 215
Theodore, a goblin saint, personifies the Sun, carries away girls, 126
Theology, 239, 240
Thieves, Spell against, 88, 89
Thistles, against witchcraft, 147, 148
Thoreau, 188
Thunderbolts, amulets, 248
Toad and devil, 253; necklace of toads, 257
Toad and milk-pail, 148
Toothache, Spell against, 38, 39
Toricelli, the conjurer, 183
Towers, Witch, 243, 244
Tree, Plugging hole in, for magical purposes, 17
Trees trained to three branches for luck, 153; Witches meet in the tops of, 152, 153
Trescone alla Boema, the polka originally danced by witches, 159
Tresevica, Spell of the, 63
Tribune (New York), on Observation, 172
Tritas, the Hindoo god, 105
Trushul, a cross, 52, 54, 153
Tuckey, C. Lloyd, Dr., “Hypnotism and Psycho-Therapeutics,” 5, 162
Twelfth child, Krstnik, 145
Tyndale, x
Tyrolese gypsies and amulets, 232, 233
U.
Undines, 146
Unlucky days in Roumania, 125
Urme, or fairies, 40; unfavourable to cattle, 86
V.
Vairus, de Fascinatione, 46
Valentine, Mrs., “Nursery Rhymes,” 221
Valkyries, 67
Vampire, Woman who has had intercourse with a, 100
Varro, 43
Venetian witchcraft, 155
Venus, Paraschiva, 125
Vikings buried in boats, 114
Vilas, Slavonian fairies, 67, 143; seek the love of men, 145, 147
Vine-leaf, Magic, 138
Voices of the dead heard in a tomb by children, 237
Volga, Princess, 36
Volkv, the sorcerer, 36
Volta, an indecent witch dance, 158
Voodoo in Philadelphia, 16; Voodoo magic, 39, 40; Owen, Miss Mary, 99; how to become a Voodoo witch (voodoo or taboo), 109
W.
Wallace, x
Watching children, 136
Water-boiling to learn who will be the future husband, 118
Water-spirits, Homage to, 130
Wechselbälge, or changelings, 60
Weird, its true meaning, 43
Westwood, 162
Whirlwind, devil dancing with a witch, 128
Wigan, dual action of the brain, 163
Willow-knots, love-charms, 139
Will, Waking, common sense or judgment, 163
Winters, The, a gypsy clan, 206
Witchcraft in England, xiv; origin of, Chapter I., 1, 6; preceded Shamanism, 6
Witchcraft in Italy, 155
Witchcraft, Early, the first form or phase of superstition before a cultivated Shamanism, 124, 157
Witch doctors, 192
Witches, Burning, 239
Witches’ foot-prints, 154; their swimming-places, 155
Witches only powers of nature, 156
Witch, Etymology of the word: names for witches, 66; signs of a witch, 67
Witch Walnut-tree of Benevento, 149
Wlislocki, Dr., Obligations to, xi; his works, xiii, 23, 45, 47, 51, 52, 57, 67, 69, 71, 87, 91, 94, 111, 117, 120, 177, 235
Wolos, Sting of, charms, 32, 34
Woman, Old, who lived in a shoe, 117
Women excel in certain qualities, 161
Wordsworth, 166
Wuch-ow-sen, the eagle, 240
Wüthende Heer, or Wild Hunter, the storm, 59
Wuttke, D., “Deutsche Volks aberglaube der Gegenwart,” 72
Z.
Zeno, the Terrible Exorcism, 150
Zigeuner, origin of the word, 30
Zračne Vile, aerial spirits, 69
UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON.