Extracts from the writings of Dioscorides.—The views of Galen.—Sextus Placitus.—“Saxon Leechdoms.”—Avicenna.—Miscellaneous.—Human Ordure.—Schurig’s ideas regarding the use in medicine of the egestæ of animals.—Ordure and urine in folk-medicine.—Occult influences ascribed to ordure and urine.—Other excrementitious remedies.—Hair.—Superstitions connected with the human saliva.—Cerumen or ear-wax.—Woman’s milk.—Human sweat.—Superstitions connected with the catamenial fluid.—After-birth and lochiæ.—Human semen.—Human blood.—Human skin, flesh, and tallow.—Human skull.—Brain.—Moss growing on human skull.—Moss growing on statue.—Lice.—Wool.—Bones and teeth.—Marrow.—Human teeth.—Tartar impurities from the teeth.—Renal and biliary calculi.—Human bile.—Bezoar stones.—Lyncurius.—Cosmetics. XLII. AMULETS AND TALISMANS 370 XLIII. WITCHCRAFT.—SORCERY.—CHARMS.—SPELLS.—INCANTATIONS.—MAGIC 373 XLIV. A FEW REMARKS UPON TEMPLE OR SACRED PROSTITUTION, AND UPON THE HORNS OF CUCKOLDS 405 XLV. CURES BY TRANSPLANTATION 411 XLVI. THE USE OF THE LINGAM IN INDIA 428 XLVII. PHALLIC SUPERSTITIONS IN FRANCE AND ELSEWHERE 431 XLVIII. BURLESQUE SURVIVALS 432 The use of bladders in religious ceremonies. XLIX. THE WORSHIP OF COCKS AND HENS 440 The Spanish-American sport of “Correr el Gallo,” and the English pastime of “Throwing at ‘Shrove Cocks.’”—The scarabæus of Egypt. L. THE PERSISTENCE OF FILTH REMEDIES 456 Epilepsy. LI. AN EXPLANATION OF THE REASON WHY HUMAN ORDURE AND HUMAN URINE WERE EMPLOYED IN MEDICINE AND RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES 459 LII. EASTER EGGS 461 LIII. THE USE OF BLADDERS IN MAKING EXCREMENT SAUSAGES 464 LIV. CONCLUSION 467 BIBLIOGRAPHY 469 INDEX 485 SCATALOGIC RITES OF ALL NATIONS. I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. “The proper study of mankind is man.” “The study of man is the study of man’s religion.”—MAX MÜLLER.