AAaron's rod,25Æschines,18Agricola,29Albertus,84Animal instinct of cure by plants,161Anthropomorphon,84Architecture, Mysticism and Myth,193Ahmed, Prince,42Aristotle,153Arthurian legends,23Asterodia,2Australian legends,8,20,21BBaaras, root of,80Bacchus,73Bacon,68,85Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,37-39,60,61,88Barth,52Benjamin's sack,49Beryl, the,48the spirits of the,48Bhása,71Bion's Lament,124Black Kaspar,48Bodhi Tree,199Book of Days,73,75Brand's Popular Antiquities,97,100,107Breton legends,8British Guiana legends,8-20Britomart,50Browne, Sir Thomas,28,29,83Browning's, Mrs., Dead Pan,80Buddha's foot,11'Bull-roarer,' the,17,18Bushman legend,63CCagliostro,51Cain in the Moon,62Cambuscan's mirror,49Camelon,27Capnomancy,13Cat and the Well,6Catoptromancy,50Celestial Paradise,189Chaldæo-Babylonian legends,92Chaucer,49,62Chinese legends,20,95Cingalese legends,11Circaea, or Enchanter's Nightshade,81Circe,82Cleopatra,79Clover leaf, the,130Coles' Art of Simpling,86Columbus,107Columella,84Conway's Demonology, etc.,24,71,72,85,95Cornish legends,66-103Cox and Jones's Tales of Teutonic Lands,2,3,7,9Cronus,8,9,20Crusade legends,129,136Crusades, the,13,93Cupid,124DDanae,5Dante,62Davy Jones,114Dawn Myths,2,5,6Dee's, Dr., Spherical Speculum,48,50De Gubernatis,72Dekker's Wonderful Year,147Delphi,19Demeter,19Demosthenes,18Dessoir, Max,56Devil's Kettles,95Devil's Punch-bowls,95Devonian legends,65,122,127Dioscorides,134Divination by smoke,15Divining-rod, the,30-32Dove and the ark,24'Duffy,'114Dutch legend,96EEarth-man,79Eden, the Garden of,190Eastern idea of,191Icelandic idea of,191Mandeville's, Sir J.,192Somaliland,192Prester John's,190Ellacombe's Plant-Lore of Shakespeare,149Endymion,72Esquimo legend,67Esthonian legend,73Eucharist, the,24FFairy-lore,12,13'Fairy-ring,' the,12Feast of Demeter,16Fian, Dr.,27Fleur de lys, the,130Flying Dutchman, the,96Folk-lore methods,15,16Bible,88Friend's Flowers and Flower-Lore,147GGanymede,67Gargantua, legend of,8Garlic (or 'Poor Man's Treacle'), Pliny on,170Bacon on,170Eastern belief in,170,173Garrett's Dictionary of India,89Gaya and Buddha,199Gerarde's Herball (1597),81,128Gerizim,199German legends,60,93,94Gesta Romanorum,42Glam (the moon),72Goldsmith's Citizen of the World,50'Good folks,'12Goodrich's, Miss, experiments in crystal-reading,53-55Gordon-Cumming's, Miss, Wanderings in China,64Greek legends,3,4,10,19,21,60,67,82,127Grimm, Fairy Tales,6,66,129HHades,19Hamlet,41Harpocrates,124Hartmann, Dr. Franz,46Hephaistos,2Hera,19Hermes,82Herodotus,29,30,63,73Hesiod,9Highland superstitions,10,12,13Hindu legends,20,68,71Holcroft, the actor,116Holinshed,27Holy Spirit, symbol of the,24Homa,87,88'Hot-cross buns,'77Hussin,6Hutton's Jacob's Rod,39Hydra, the,93IIcelandic legend,95'Ink-pool,' the,48Israfil,196JJack and Jill,61Jacques Aymar of Lyons, story of,37,38Jacob Boehme's tin cup,49Jamieson, Dr., and the Moon,60Jason and the Golden Fleece,21Jewish legends,60,90Jobson, Richard (divining-rod),34Jonah,115Jonson's Tale of a Tub,145Josephus,65,81Judas Iscariot,62,107KKaabah-stone,198Kaffir legend,20Kingsley's Water-Babies,105,111LLane's Magician,51Lang's Custom and Myth, etc.,4,8,14,17,21,30,34,66,82Lao's looking-glass,50Leek, the, in Welsh tradition,171Legends:Australian,8,20,21Breton,8Bushman,63Ceylon,11Chaldæo-Babylonian,92Chinese,20,95Cornish,66,103Devonian,65,122,127Dutch,96Eskimo,67Esthonian,73German,60,93,94Greek,3,4,10,19,21,50,67,82,127Highland,12Hindu,20,68,71Icelandic,95Jewish,60,90Kaffir,20Lenormant, François,93Lid of Hell,195Malay,8Maori,62,63North American,8,62of British Guiana,8,20of St. Cecilia,129of St. David,171of St. Patrick,131of St. Peter,109of the Crusaders,129,136Persian,125Roman,124Russian,94,110Scandinavian,61Sicilian,73Syrian,93Talmudic,92Zulu,8Lethaby on Architecture and Myths,193Levi, house of,25Lhasis,80Lien Chi Altangi,50Lilly, John,59Linnæus, story of,33Lotus legends,128the Buddhist,127the Egyptian,128Lucian,59Luna,63,73MMagic,23Magellan,107Malay legends,8Mandrake, the,78,83anthropomorphon,84or Devil's Apple,85or Stone Apple,85Mandura,200Maori legends,62,63Mecca,198Medea,67Merlin's mirror,49Michael Scott,11Middle Kingdom, the, according to Herodotus,189Eastern idea of,189,197,200Jewish tradition of,196Jupiter's,193Mecca, the,199Mexican tradition of,195Prester John,198Midsummer Night's Dream,62Milbanke, Lady,39Mister Storm-Along,119Mohammed, legend of,126Moonfolk, Lucian's,59Moon-lore, Australian,67Bushman,67Egyptian,67English,70,74,76Eskimo,67Greek,67,87Maori,67North American Indian,67South African,67Moon, the,2,58Moon-worship,76Moonwort,153,154Conway, Moncure,155Culpeper,154in Divine Weekes,154in legend,153Moses' rod,25,26,29Mother Carey's chickens,97,104,109Müller, Max,9Mythology, Chinese,63Eskimo,63German,133Greek,10,78,121Hindu,63,87Scandinavian,116Vedic,72NNautical superstitions,98,100Navel of the World,193Nebuchadnezzar,28Neptune,93Nether Lochaber,12Nikke,96North American legends,8,62OOdin,73Odysseus,82Old Nick,93Onion among the Romans,167as food,164Homer on,167in The Arabian Nights,165Juvenal on,165Malagasy use of,166Mohammedan legends of,167myths,168,169Napoleon and,174of the Greeks,163,165of Herodotus,166Pliny on,165,167Shakespeare on,163Sinclair, Sir J., on,175Ophelia,148Othello,80PParacelsus's magic mirror,43,44Paradise, the Garden of,190Parkinson the Herbalist,151Penelope,49Persian legend,125Peter the Hermit,13Pharaoh,25Pleiades, the,21Pliny,132Plutarch,73Pope Leo X.,107Poseidon,19Potato, the, as food,184Buckle on,177Christopher Columbus and,176folklore of,183Gerarde on,177in Scotland and Ireland,181in Shakespeare,179introduction into Europe,176Sir Francis Drake and,177Prince Zeyn Alasnam, story of,42Proctor, R. A.,60Prose Edda,71Prospero,70Pryce's Mineralogia Cornubiensis,32Pseudosia Epidemica,83Pyromancy,47Pythagoras,84RRashi,77Red Riding Hood,5,6Rhabdomancy,28,39Rhea,19Riley's Book of Days,64Rink, Dr.,63Rod, Moses',25,26of the house of Levi,25the,23the divining,30,32Roman legend,124Romeo and Juliet,79Rona in the Moon,62Roof of the World, the,100Rosemary,123Roses, Feast of the,125Rue as a disinfectant,162as salad,152derivation of,150in Aristotle,153,159in Drayton,153in Ellacombe's Plant-Lore of Shakespeare,149in French perfumery,152in Milton,151in Parkinson,151in Pliny,157in Shakespeare,149,153in Spenser,151in Warburton's works,152Ruskin's Queen of the Air,4Russian legend,94,110Ruth,150Ryence, King,50SSt. Brandan,117St. Cecilia, legend of,129St. Christophoros, story of,26St. David, legends of,171St. David's Day, origin of,171St. Joseph, legend of,127St. Nicholas,93St. Patrick,131St. Peter, legend of,109St. Peter's Day,110St. Ursula,2,3Satan,79,85Saturn,8,19,20Scandinavian legend,61Schliemann, Dr.,194Sea chanties,119,120Septuagint, the,49Shakespeare,2,62,79Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick,92Shelvocke's voyages,106Shew Stone,50Sicilian legend,73Sidney, Sir Philip,72Solomon's Temple,196Soma,63,87,89,90,193Song of Sixpence,5Sorcerer's Root,78Spring Myths,10Stormy petrel,99Sung-Yun and the Pamirs,200Superstitions:Accadian,16Aztec,16Bushmen,21Chinese,75Greek,16Highland,10,12Jewish,16,76Nautical,98,100,117Peruvian,16Red Indian,16, 20Sicilian,16Syrian legend,92TTalmudic legend,92Tannhäuser,3Tylor's Primitive Culture,5,65Tempest, the,70Theal's Kaffir Folklore,18Thiselton-Dyer,31,34,64,78,100,131,145Thistle, the,132Stewart, Dr., on,135of Dioscorides,134Timbs,79True Thomas of Ercildoune,3Tûtenganahaû, story of,20Tweed, the,10Tylor,6,65Typhœus,117UUlysses,42Urim and Thummim,49VVampire, the,70Vedic Agni,2Venus,30Venus's looking-glass,49Verne, Jules,59Vervain of the Druids,158Friend on the,159of the Greeks,158Thiselton-Dyer on,158Virgin Mary,106Von Bülow's Christian Legends of Germany,26Vulcan's mirror,49WWarburton,152Warts, the cure of,160'White Rose Day,'125Winslow, Forbes,76Winter's Tale, The,149Winter Myths,10Witches' broom, the,70Witches' Mannikin,78Wolf and Seven Little Kids,6,7,9,66Wurmbrand's Visionen im Wasserglass,53YYama,193Yggdrasil,193ZZafarana,73Zeus,19,67Zillah, legend of,126Zulu legend,8