The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notesLawrence, Robert Means
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The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes
Lawrence, Robert Means
Folklore
Copernican system, 248.
Cosmopolitan condiment, salt thus termed, 188.
Covenant of salt, 157, 164-166.
Crescent, the Turkish symbol, 21, 22.
Crescents and half-moon-shaped amulets, 18-26.
Cross, the, most potent of talismans, 99.
Crows, as foreboders, 285-287.
Cure for deafness, 219, 220.
Cyclops, the, 41, 49.
Dactyls, mythical artisans, 41.
Days, of good and evil omen, 239-278.
Egyptian, 239-243.
Roman superstition concerning, 243-245.
mediæval belief in day-fatality, 245-253.
modern belief in day-fatality, 253-257.
the sixth day of the week, 258-263.
Friday in modern times, 263-278.
Demon-mare, 74.
Deodand, obsolete term of English law, 309.
Deuz or Deuce, the number two, 313.
Devil, the, 26, 31, 50, 69, 98, 123, 124, 130, 135, 136, 158, 159, 167,
218, 238, 254, 279, 285, 286, 290, 313.
Devil’s foot, imprint of, 136.
_Dies atri_, 244.
_Dies Egyptiaci_, 239-243, 247.
_Dies fasti_ and _nefasti_, 243, 244.
_Dies mala_, 246.
_Dies Veneris_, 262.
Diet regulated by the days of the week, 255.
Divining rod, 15.
Elf-bolt, 33.
Eloy, Saint, 47, 48, 235.
England, the day formerly divided into thirteen parts, 339.
Exorcism, of haunted house, 93.
of vermin, 287.
Evil eye, 10-13.
Evil spirits, keep aloof from iron, 38.
dislike salt, 159.
cause sickness, 220-227.
Fairies, when especially alert, 266, 267.
Farriers, 52.
Farriery, introduction of modern, 4.
Fire, a spirit-scaring element, 54-58.
Fires, midsummer, 55, 56.
Fireflies, 28.
Fish, an emblem of Freyja, 259.
Fortune, the Roman goddess, 141-149.
Fortune and luck, 145-153.
temples of, 149, 150.
Foxes, charm against, 303.
French Canadian legend, 97, 98.
Freyja, the Northern goddess of love, 258, 259, 269, 274.
Friday, 258-278.
Moslem beliefs regarding, 264.
Jewish beliefs regarding, 265.
Froth from a horse’s mouth repels demons, 68.
Geoponica, the, Grecian treatise on agriculture, 287, 306.
George, Saint, 126, 127.
Gertrude, Saint, patron saint of travelers and cats, 288.
Half-moon tavern symbols, 120.
Hamlin, the pied piper of, 288, 289.
Hammer, Thor’s emblem, 127.
Hand, symbol of the open, 16-18.
in Palestine, 16.
in Syria, 17.
Hand, symbol of the open, in Germany, 17.
Hatto II., Archbishop of Mayence, legend concerning, 282, 283.
Hebrides, preference for odd numbers, in the, 329.
Hecate, 23.
Hernia, cure for, 37.
Holy water, 182.
Horapollon, a treatise on Egyptian hieroglyphics, 210, 279.
Horn, of the fabulous unicorn, 9.
Horns, and other two-pronged objects, 8-15.
Horns of animals, used as amulets:—
of the stag, 10, 14.
of cattle, 10, 11.
of antelopes, 11.
of reindeer, 14.
Horse, the, a luck-bringer, 68.
a divinatory animal, 69, 70.
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