Gabalis, Comte de, 46
Gana (Diana), queen of the witches, 132
Gander-goose, Orchis maculata, used in love-potions, 119
Ganet, Dom Leitas (Dona Branca ou a Conquista do Algarve), 72
Garlic, used in magic, 52, 91, 92, 97, 98, 136
Garzonius nel Serraglio, 46
George, St., his Day, Eve, 118, 142, 143, 147, 148
Gerard, Mrs. E., “Land beyond the Forest,” 126, 127, 130, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 207
Gertrude, German queen of the witches, 133
Gessler and his hat, 242
Gettatura, witch signs, 200
Gookin, Mother, straw-man, 32
Graff, 223
Grass, a love-charm with, 111;
old custom, 112
Gregor (Queen), Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland, 76
Grillandus, Paulus, 64, 149;
on Torture, 240, 242
Grimm (“Deutsche Mythologie”), 29, 54, 112;
acorn song, 222, 223, 224
Groome, Francis, 159
Grosius, Magica, 238
Gubernatis, Count Angelo de, on heathenism in Tuscany, xiv, 105, 126, 133, 135, 138, 223
Guin, Kam, Chen-Guin, 50
Gun, Enchanted, 131
Gypsies and old age, 47
“Gypsies, The,” by C. G. Leland, 209
Gypsies: their dissemination of Folk-lore, x, xi;
basis of Gypsy Sorcery, xi;
Gypsy Sorcery not exhausted in this work, but only used to illustrate the main subject,
xii.
Affinity with the Indian Dom—How gypsies became fortune-tellers, 2, 3;
came from India, 8
Gypsy Conjurations, Chapter III.
Gypsy dancing: the debauched dancing of witches possibly of gypsy origin, 158
Gypsy divination, the action of the Dream-power or Alter-ego, 173
Gypsy fortune-teller in Cairo, 235, 236
Gypsy incantation, A, &c., 209
Gypsy-Lore Journal, 208
Gypsy, Lucky to meet a, 129, 130
Hair, a means of fascination, 98;
Charms for the, 23, 24, 25;
superstitions, &c., 24, 25, 26, 60, 92, 93, 120, 121
Hale, Prof. Horatio, “On the Origin of Language,” 3;
instances of children, 4
Half a horse, half alligator, 127
Halliwell, def. “humbug,” 16
Hand, Oath by the, 110
Hare, Counting-out rhyme and incantation, 224, 225
Harginn, Chagrin, an Indian demon, 91
Hawthorne, N. P., 31
Hazel, Lady, 196
Head, bumped, Charm for, 61
Headache, Remedy for, with incantation, 21
Heine, definition of ideas, 7, 43, 130;
prophecy, 184, 228;
witch poem, 244
Hell-shoon, 113
Hen, Black, Sorcery and superstitions connected with, 21;
egg of black hen, 90, 91, 127, 128
Henry, Joseph, Prof., 177
Hermann, Prof. Dr. A., xi, 45, 105
Hermanstadt, Lake near, where the devil brews storms, 129
Hermes Trismegistus, 171
Hemorrhages, Menses, Profluvium or flow of blood: to cause or to prevent it, 101, 103, 104;
old German and Roman spells for flow of blood, 104
Hindoo Priest, The, a low type of Shaman, 9, 10
Hole in a tree, 62
Holle, Frau, a lady, 29
Holy Virgin, cramp, 36
Horns of cattle, wreathed as spell, 143
Horse, Charms to protect, 81, 82, 84, 97;
to recover a stolen, 109
Humbug, Origin of the word, 161
Husband, Spells to know the future, 117
Hypnotism, x
Incantations, Florentine, used in divining by cards, 44
“Index librum prohibitorum,” 241
Indian (American) trader named Ross, Anecdote of, 179
Indian, Red, views of marvels and supernatural power, 179
Indians, or Hindoos, not all of the religions of Brahma or Buddha, 9
Innocent, Pope, Bull of, 240
Interlacing and serpentine patterns intended to bewilder and negative the evil eye, 98
Invisible, How to become, 148
Iona, the jade pebbles of, 249
Irish, Earse, Aryan, 123
Irving, Washington, 226
“Isis Unveiled,” 7
Italian Witchcraft, 155, 156;
story of Florentine witch, 156
Keats, 166
Kelley, “Indo-European Folk-lore,” 114
Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” 202, 203
Kerner, Justinus, 166
Kerr, Bellenden, old Dutch, 214
Key, To find a, 113
Klek, The tavern-keeper of; a witch wife, 73
Klingsohr, a Zingar wizard, 159
“Knaben Wunderhorn, Des,” 196
Knife, 230–231;
in sorcery, 61
Knots, Love, 139
Knots of hair, 93;
knots in willow-twigs, 110, 111
Kornmann, H., “Curiosa,” 146
Kounavine, M., 40, 107, 208, 251
Krauss, Dr. F. S., of Vienna, his works, xi, 65, 66, 67, 69, 73, 142, 145, 148, 152, 247–248
Kugler, “Handbuch Geschichte der Malerei,” 235
Lada, Slavonian Venus, 138
Lady or spirit in the well, 137
Laki, Lakshmi, 107
La Motte Fouqué, Undines, 146
Language, Origin of, 3, 4;
denied to the earliest types of man, 6
Lantern, The Fairies’, 203
Latche romni, or female magicians in Hungary, 46
Latour, Charlotte de la, “Symbols of Flowers” (straw), 31
Layard, Sir H. Austen, 235
Leek, Magic virtues of, 53
“Legends of the Birds,” by C. G. Leland, 154
Leidy, Dr. Joseph, 250
“Leitner, Dr., Results of a Tour in Dardistan, Kashmir,” &c., 91
Leland, Charles Godfrey: the Algonkin Indians, &c., 55
“Le Normant, Magie Chaldaienne,” 44, 62
Lettuce, Divination by, 54
Levi, Eliphaz (l’Abbé Constant), 238
Lïbussa, Queen of Bohemia: Slavic lore, 115
Liebich, R. (“Die Zigeuner”), 110, 215
Liebrecht, J., 91
Lightment, theft (old cant), 211
Lightning averted by sticking a knife into a loaf of bread, 128
Lilith, or Herodias, 36, 37, 62, 63, 64
Lime or linden tree, 138
Ljesje, Russian fairies, 67
Lob’s Pound, 202
Lockyer, Norman, x
Lord and Lady Cramp, Disease, Vampire and Wehrwolf, 37
Lord of the Forest, 131
Lorent, “Hist. de l’Inquisition,” 254
Love-charm from English gypsy, 53
Love incantations, 111
Mac Ritchie, “Earth Houses and their Inhabitants”; “The Testimony of Tradition,” 70
Magdalen, Mary, 138
Magic brought by gypsies to Europe, xi;
as prevalent in some form now as ever, xv
Magic power of Dreams, Chapter XI.;
the production of what is not measured by waking-will, 163
Magnusen, Fin, on the Elder-tree, 28, 29
Malocchio, 103
Mama padura, or Weshni dye, the forest-mother, 130
Manes, 64
Man, Primitive, and his religion, 6
Marcellus Burdigalensis, charm for toothache, &c., 54, 61, 102, 104, 221, 224
Maria Theresa Dollars, 231, 232
Marvels: all marvels and miracles begin and end with man himself, 171
Mascot, 147
Mashmurdalo, The gypsy sylvan giant, 8;
invocation to, 16
Maudsley, on Attention and Interest, 172
Memory, latent power: how it may be developed, 171
Men first made from leaves, 94;
or from trees, 94
Menzel, Christh., “Symbolik,” 256
Merbitz, J. V., “De Infantibus Supposititiis,” 60
Miklosich, 50
Milk the tether, To, 199
Milles, Dean, MS. (“humbug”), 161
Millni, “Gallerie Mythologique,” 237
Milton, John, attributes all disease to sin and the devil, 150
Mirandola, Picus de, 64
Moncrief Maradan, “The Historiogriffe of Cats,” 137
Monotheism, 157
Moon, Full, charms, 50
Moon, in incantation, 85
Morgan, C. Lloyd, 130
Mors, Mars, 125
Mountain Monk, 132
Naglfara, the ship made of dead men’s nails, 71
Nakedness in witch-spells, 133, 134, 135
Name, Nav, 220
Names suffice for explanations with many people, 177, 178
Nano, a Hindoo Gypsy, 230, 231
Nature, No violation of the laws of, 178
Negro-Gypsies, 215
Nettle, The, in gypsy and other Folk-lore, 95
Newell, W. W., 227
Night side of Nature, The true, 168
Nivasi, or Nivashi, spirits of earth, 46, 48, 56, 60, 69
Norden “Reise nach Aegypten,” 228
Nyerup, Lexicon, on the Elder-tree, 29