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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
Archæology—Ethnology, ix
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
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 Hen, Fast of the, 137
Blavatsky, Mme., 171
Blessing of the Syrups, Oil, &c., 150
Block, Dr., corpse-candle superstition, xii
Blocksberg, 30
Boars’ tusks worn as amulets, 26, 27, 102, 103;
engraving, 103
Bodinus, 240
Bogey, Bog, Buh, Boggar, Bogle, Bo-guest, Boll, Boman, &c., 161
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
Cabalists, 238
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
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
“Denham Tract,” 197
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, 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
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
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
“Egyptian Sketch Book,” 146
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
Eyes, Pain in, Incantation for, 27
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
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