P
Padishah (Sultan).
Marko fears his foes will calumniate him to, 107;
Vlah-Ali the rebel of the, 123;
Stephan Yakshitch taken before the, 178;
Stephan Yakshitch tempted to abjure the Holy Cross by, 178
Paganism.
The religion and the, of the Serbians, 14–53;
only partially abolished from the Balkans, 30
Palm Sunday.
Serbian festivities on, 52
Panthelias, St.
Mention of, in Serbian ballad “The Saints Divide the
Treasures,” 195;
great heats chosen by, 196
Paul.
One of the brothers in the Serbian ballad “The
Stepsisters,” 206–210
“Pavilion neither in the Sky nor on the
Earth, A.”
A Serbian legend, 220–224
“Pea-hens, The Nine.”
A Serbian folk-tale, 267–280
“Pepelyouga” (Cinderella).
A Serbian legend, 226–230;
alternative name of, Marra, 226–229
Peroon.
The Russian God of Thunder, 15;
name preserved in village “Peroon,” and in plant
“Peroonika,” 15
Peter I, King. Son of Alexandre
Karageorgevitch;
his glorious rule, 11;
George Petrovitch grandfather of, 175;
Empire lost by Tsar Lazarus regained under, 176
Peter II.
Archbishop of Montenegro, and belief in vampires, 22
Peter, St.
Mention of, in Serbian ballad “The Saints Divide the
Treasures,” 195;
wine, wheat and the Keys of the Heavenly Empire chosen by, 196;
“St. Peter and the Sand,” a Serbian popular anecdote,
362
Petrovitch, George. Turkish designation
Karageorge (‘Black George’).
A gifted Serbian who led a successful insurrection against the Turks in
1804, 9, 175;
cruelly assassinated by order of Milosh, 10
Petrovitch, Nicholas I.
See Nicholas
Petrovitch, Peter. The popular Serbian
poet;
reference to his masterpiece on Gorsky Viyenatz
(“The Mountain Wreath”), 56
Petrovitch, Vladika Danilo. Uncle of present
king of Montenegro;
first assumed the title of Prince as a hereditary one, 184
Pirlitor. Alternative, Piritor.
The white city opposite the mountain Dourmitor, the walls of the castle
of which it is said still exist in Herzegovina, 186;
Vidossava punished by the castle, 193
Pisistrate’s Epoch.
The learned Diascevastes of, 54
Pleiades.
Serbian equivalent, Sedmoro Bratye (‘The Seven Brothers’),
22
Podgoritza.
Captain Yovan’s five hundred men of, 139
Poetry, Epic.
The Serbian national, 54–58
Pogatcha.
The Serbian wedding cake, 38
Polaznik.
A Serbian visitor, 50
Pope, The.
Stevan Tomashevitch fails to get help from, 8
Poretch. The district of;
Milo and Milosh arrive at, 105
Porphyrogenete, Constantine.
According to, the Serbians adopted the Christian faith at two different
periods, 28
Potzerye, Milosh of.
Bogdan the Bully and, 87–89;
General Voutcha and, 89–94;
the veela Raviyoyla and, 102–105
Predestination.
Serbians believe in immortality and, 18
Priepolyé.
A youth from, admires Milosh-the-Shepherd’s steed, Koulash,
157
“Priest, The, why drowned.”
A Serbian popular anecdote, 364
Prilip.
Serbian belief that Prince Marko is asleep in castle at, 64;
Prince Marko’s appearance at battle of, in November, 1912,
64;
Archdeacon Nedelyko bids the four tabors appeal to Marko at,
67;
the Sultana’s dream concerning, 74;
Milosh sends a messenger to, 90;
Marko imprisons Voutcha and Velimir in, 93, 94
Prisrend.
Theodor arrives at, and reports to Tsar Doushan the result of his
mission, 151, 152;
Tsar Doushan’s return to, 168
Ptolemy.
Greek geographer, describes the Serbians, 1