- Abbot of Unreason, 13.
- Abnormal Appetite, 28,
29, 30, 31, 32, 233, 311, 314, 316.
- Abortion, 105;
- produced by mistletoe, 105.
- See also under Parturition.
- Aconite, used to poison panthers; human ordure the
antidote, 244.
- Afghans, flatulence regarded as a deadly insult by, 161.
- After-birth, 216, 224, 226, 235, 236, 343, 354, 355;
- a remedy for witchcraft, 215;
- in philters, 224;
- as an anti-philter, 354,
355.
- See also Therapeutics.
- Agaric, 71,
77, 81, 82, 83;
- the cause of fairy circles, 82, 83;
- excluded from Brahminical
dietary, 92, 109.
- See also Mushrooms.
- Aghozis, a Hindu sect who eat human ordure, 40, 126.
- Agnus Castus, 225.
- Agriculture, 26,
80, 128, 129, 140, 180, 190, 191, 192, 193, 345, 350, 351, 353, 438;
- taught to men by Saturn, 129;
- urine and ordure in, 129;
- cow dung used to make threshing-floors in France and
Italy, 180;
- religious
rites in connection with, in China, 345;
- catamenial women marched round the Roman fields,
450,—see also the description from “Hiawatha;”
- the
touch of a catamenial woman ruined vines, fruit trees, etc., 353;
- “fool ploughs,” 438.
- See also under Latrines.
- “Aiguilette, nouer l’.” See
Witchcraft, Ligatures.
- Album Græcum. See Dog Dung.
- Alcohol, 39;
- mixed with urine in drink, 39;
- abstained from by Lamas while making sacred pills, 50;
- invented by the Chinese,
2197 B.C. 75, 76;
- obtained from mushrooms, 81.
- See Intoxicants, 379.
- Alder. See Tree
and Plant Worship; Cures by
Transplantation.
- Ale, 39, 232.
- See Bride-ale, Intoxicants.
- Amanita Muscaria. See Mushrooms.
- Amber, 289;
- believed to be whale’s dung, 271.
- Ambergris, 48.
- Ammonia, 39, 199, 201;
- probably suggested by a prior use of urine, 199.
- Ammonia, urate of, and guano, used in phthisis.
- Amulets and
talismans, 28, 42,
43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 225, 226, 237, 363, 364, 370, 371, 391, 403, 441, 454, 458;
- mistletoe used as an amulet, in Sweden, 108;
- in England, 108, 111;
- cow ordure and urine, as, 112;
- the first tooth dropped by a child an amulet,
363.
- See Excrement, Grand
Lama, Patriarch of Constantinople.
- Amulets and talismans, 225, 245, 267.
- Analysis of the mani or sacred pills of the Buddhists,
53.
- Ancestor worship, 459, 460. See Spirits, Gods.
- Ancestors, skulls of, used as drinking-cups, in Thibet,
250.
- Animal Worship.
See under Therapeutics, Philters, Aphrodisiacs,
Parturition, Ordeals and Punishments, Monasticism, Cosmetics,
Amulets and Talismans, Cures by Transplantation, Tattooing.
- Anthropomancy. See Divination.
- Anti-natural god of the Sioux, 267.
- Aphrodisiacs, 78;
- mushrooms regarded
as, 78, 80, 90, 94;
- onions and garlic regarded as, 93,
94;
- mistletoe regarded
as, 103, 104;
- ordure and urine regarded as, 216,
217;
- leopard’s dung
regarded as, 217;
- nettles
regarded as, 216, 217,
390;
- antiphrodisiacs, 224;
- the testes of the fox
used as an, 225.
- April Fool’s Day, 432,
437.
- See Festival of Huli.
- Aqua ex stercore. See Excrement.
- Aristophanes says that Esculapius ate excrement,
129;
- calls thunder
flatulence, 163;
- calls
doctors “excrement eaters,” 278, 279.
- Arms and armor, 219.
- Arms and armor, 241,
242, 312, 313, 323.
- See War Customs.
- Asclepius, surnamed Pharmacion (the druggist), believed
to have been the first writer who counselled the use of human excrement
in Therapeutics, 278.
- Aspersions, 105
(see Mistletoe, Holy
Water, Lustration, Courtship and Marriage),
113, 220, 225, 236, 247, 261, 300, 393, 398, 399, 428;
- urine of
Hottentot priest used in aspersions at weddings, funerals, etc.,
229;
- upon young
warriors at time of initiation, 238, 239;
- urine of Moorish
bride at time of initiation, 229,—see Queen of Madagascar;
- the water in which Russian bride had been bathed
at time of initiation, 231,—see Bride-Ale.
- Aspersions
with urine in “Witches’ Mass,” 274, 383, 388;
- urine used by the Highlanders for aspersing their cattle,
398, 390.
- See Lingams.
- Aspersions, 113, 225, 264. See Rue.
- Aspersions, by the Queen of Madagascar,
60.
- See Lustrations, Hottentot
Marriages, Courtship and
Marriage, Holy Water.
- Asphalt dissolved by the catamenial fluid,
350, 385;
- also by human urine, 385.
- Assafœtida, 322, 343, 389, 425, 444;
- called “Merde du Diable,” 343,
444.
- See under Garlic, Stench, Perfume.
- Assyria, dung gods of, 130, 132.
- Aztecs used poisonous mushrooms in their sacred dances,
89, 90.
- Bacchanalia, 62, 63, 64, 75, 89, 90, 394, 440.
- Bang. See Intoxicants.
- Banians of India swear by cow dung, 112;
- eat cow-dung, 119.
- Baptism, 232;
- mock baptism, 232.
- Barrington, “Observations on the Statutes,” comments on
tenures of land by flatulence, 166.
- Basilisk, eggs of, would hatch only in
dung, or under a toad, 268.
- Bathing. See Lustration.
- Bedouins eructate as a matter of civility, 161;
- consider flatulence a
deadly insult, 161, 257,
258.
- Beds and bedding, urination in bed, how prevented,
271, 375, 384;
- defilement of, how
occasioned, 379.
- Beer, 232.
- Beer. See Intoxicants.
- Belgium, the mannikin of Brussels, 165.
- Bel-phegor, filthy rites connected with
his worship, 132, 154,
155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 173;
- interview
between Moses and Jehovah, 160;
- analogous rites among the Hebrews and Parsis, 161.
- Bembino, or Isaic table, 13.
- Benet, S. V., notes on urine as a dentrifice, 204.
- Bhikshuni of Thibet, 147.
- Bile, Human. See Therapeutics.
- Bitumen. See Asphalt.
- “Black drink” of Creeks and Seminoles, 242;
- of Imbando,
Africa, 240, 250.
- Bladders, 239, 434.
- Bladders, 239, 378, 384, 415, 416, 417, 422, 423, 424, 434, 437, 438, 439, 464, 465;
- mark of distinction for gallantry among Hottentots, 239;
- use by Apache and other
American savages, 434.
- See
Sausage.
- Bleaching.
- See Industries.
- Blood-covenant, 240.
- Boletus, variety of mushroom, is worshipped in Africa,
80, 91.
- “Bona Dea,” one of the names of the goddess
Rhea or Cybele, had urinal aspersions in her rites, 394.
- Bones, in medicine. See Therapeutics, Cures by Transplantation.
- “Bora.” See Initiation, 240, 241.
- “Borgie Well,” near Glasgow, made mad all who drank of
its waters, 76.
- Borneo, Dyaks of, have the Hebrew custom in regard to
the covering up of the evacuations, 146.
- Bourkans, or spirits of the Kalmucks,—one of them eats
his own excrement, 49.
- Boutan, merchants of, strewed ordure over their food, 45.
- Brahmins of India, use of cow ordure and urine in
religion, 112, 113,
114, 115, 118, 119, 122, 124.
- Brain, in Medicine. See Therapeutics, Marriage, Aspersions.
- Bread, urine and excrement, in making, 32, 38.
- “Bread of the Gods” (Mexicans), 89, 90, 91;
- “Cockle Bread,”
a Phallic game in England, 221, 222.
- Bride, “Bride-Ale,” 232.
- See Courtship.
- Bridges, a toll of flatulence exacted from prostitutes
crossing the bridge of Montluc, in France, 166,
168, 169.
- Brussels, the mannikin of, a Phallic idol, 165.
- Buddhism, the god “Sakya-Muni” eats his own
excrement, 49.
- Buddhists, 147, 251.
- Buddhists supposed to be related to the Druids,
99.
- See Lamas, Grand
Lama.
- Bull of Ernulphus, bishop of Rochester, 251.
- Burial. See Mortuary
Ceremonies.
- Calculus, in medicine. See Therapeutics.
- Cape of Good Hope. See Hottentots, etc.
- Capuchins, their beastly customs, 147, 148.
- Castes of India, restoration to the,
113.
- See also Clans.
- Casting urine, 396.
- Catamenia, 218,
219, 224, 296, 318, 392, 393, 394.
- Catamenia, a catamenial woman could cure “King’s
Evil,” 60;
- mushrooms
used as emmenagogues, 83, 108;
- mistletoe
used as an emmenagogue, especially that of the oak, 108;
- seclusion during the
duration of the catamenia, in Alaska, 104,
150;
- catamenia
used in making love-philters, 217,
218, 219, 224,—see Philters;
- to preserve chastity, 219;
- in diseases, 219,—see Therapeutics;
- in
witchcraft, 210,—see also Witchcraft, 377 to
404;
- philters made of catamenia were
rendered abortive by hen-dung, 224, 225, 226;
- asses’ dung restrained excessive catamenia, 278;
- superstitions
connected with the catamenia, 350,—see Cosmetics, 367;
- catamenial fluid had to be sprinkled upon mandrake before
it could be pulled out of the ground, 271, 376, 385.
- Cemetery, urinating through the wedding ring while in
a cemetery baffled witchcraft, 231.
- See also under Mortuary
Ceremonies.
- Cerdier states that the Africans worship the mushroom,
80.
- Ceremonial observances,
206, 207, 208, 211;
- on Holy Thursday among Russian dissenters, 162;
- urine drunk in the
marriage ceremonies of the Siberians, 228.
- See also Initiation.
- Ceremonial, tenacity of. See Survivals.
- Ceremonies in connection with agriculture in
China, 345;
- in
pulling medicinal herbs, etc. See Mandrake,
Therapeutics; see also Weeping, Kissing, Spitting, Saliva, Shaving, Flatulence,
Urination, Oblations of
Urine and Excrement.
- Chaise percée of the Grand Lama, 42;
- the tripod of Esculapius a
chaise percée, 129.
- Chamber-pots, 175, 251.
- Charlotte Elizabeth, Princess of Bavaria, a coarse
letter from, 32.
- Charms, 188,
230, 370, 371, 373, 405, 424, 430, 442, 443, 457, 458, 461, 462.
- See also Magic, Amulets
and Talismans, Witchcraft, Cures by Transplantation.
- Chastity. See Continence, Anti-Philters.
- Cheese, curds, human urine used in making cheese in
Germany, 181;
- and in
Switzerland, 181;
- a
“survival” of the preceding practice among the Pennsylvania Germans, 396.
- Childbirth. See Parturition.
- “Chinook Olives,” 38, 424.
- Chrysocollon, a cement made of urine, etc., 182, 183.
- Clallums of B. North America, Orgies of, 63.
- Clans, 185,
186, 187, 188, 456, 457, 466;
- the Roman clans were convened upon the appearance of a case
of epilepsy, 456, 457,
466.
- See Castes, Totemism, Tattooing.
- Clemens Alexandrinus, his account of excrement gods, 127, 128.
- Cloacina, Roman goddess of privies,
127, 134, 264.
- Club-houses of secret orders, 9.
- Cockatrice. See Basilisk.
- “Cockle-Bread,” a Phallic game in
England, 221, 222.
- Collyrium. See Eye
Troubles.
- “Comitialia” (see under Epilepsy; also under Clans),
456, 457, 466.
- Commodus, the Roman Emperor, ate excrement, 30.
- Coral, 181, 216;
- color of,
restored by hanging in a privy, 181;
- coral a remedy for witchcraft, 216.
- Cord, sacred, 122.
- See Initiation, Girdle.
- Cosmetics, 88,
287, 306, 307, 314, 330, 352, 353, 366, 367, 368, 369;
- the dung of pigeons,
mice, crocodiles, bulls, starlings, cows, men, lizards, foxes, dogs,
sparrows, chickens, donkeys, geese, etc., used as; also the meconium
of infants, sperm of frogs, catamenia, “Aqua Omnium Florum,” 369.
- Courtship and
marriage, 19, 48,
66, 67, 68, 96, 107, 185, 216 to 233;
- brides fumigated with incense made from the excrement
of the Patriarch of Constantinople, according to Arabian writers, 48;
- bride and groom sprinkled
with the urine of the Hottentot shamans, 59,
221;
- divination in
regard to courtship and marriage, 96;
- the
maiden who was not kissed under the mistletoe would not be
married within the year, 103;
- “ligatures,” 107,
221;
- wives in
Borneo tattooed on the thighs, 185;
- Apache-Yuma matrons tattoo, 186;
- urine drunk at marriages
in Siberia, 228.
- See Philters, Aphrodisiacs,
Ligatures, Ring,
Wedding, Bride, Wool.
- Coprolite, 184.
- “Cry, the more you, the less you piss,” 182.
- Crepitus, the God of Flatulence. See Flatulence.
- Crypto-Jews, 18.
- Cures by transplantation, 349.
- Cybele. See “Bona Dea,” 445.
- Dandelion, superstitions in connection with, 248.
- Dandruff, 304, 306, 328, 331.
- Dandruff. See Hair.
- Dentrifice, urine used as a,
203, 204, 205.
- Devil’s posterior kissed, 384.
- Devil’s presents all turned to filth and dross, 270.
- Diseases, all cured by mistletoe, 99, 104, 105, 107;
- catamenia, used in cure
of,—see Catamenia, Therapeutics;
- ordure and urine used in the cure of,—see Therapeutics, Transference of;
- see “Cures by
Transplantation;”
- sacred diseases,—see Epilepsy;
- the heathen theory
of disease, 423, 441,
442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 456, 458, 457, 462.
- Divination, 11,
13, 14, 15, 16, 90, 96, 107, 126, 155, 233, 234, 246, 247, 248.
- See “Cockle-Bread,” Urinoscopy, Gambling,
Dice, Visions,
Onions, Omens, Courtship and Marriage, Parturition.
- Dreams, 253.
- “Drink of Oblivion” of the Druids, 106.
- Drink, the “Mad Potion,” Wysoccan, 242.
- Drinks, 380.
- Drinks. See Foods,
Urine as a Beverage, Intoxicants, Eau
de Mille Fleurs, Table Liqueurs.
- Druidism, 372.
- Druids. See Mistletoe.
- Ducking-stool. See Ordeals and Punishments.
- Dung, all earthly joys compared to, by the
Apostle Paul, by Saint Matthew, and by Thomas à Kempis, 271.
- Dung, definition of, 52,—see Pedung, Excrement, Dung-carts,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
- dung-heaps used in
punishment, 87;
- dung-gods,
127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133,—see Excrement Gods;
- dung
thrown by Australian neophytes, 237,—see Parturition;
- thrown
at Guinea negresses in their first pregnancy, 237.
- Dung of whales, amber was believed to be, 271.
- Dung, the eggs of the basilisk would hatch only in, 269.
- Dungi, king of Chaldea, B.C. 2,000, 52.
- Dyaks of Borneo, cover up their evacuations, 146.
- Dyeing. See Industries.
- Dyeing of Hair. See Hair.
- Ear-Wax. See Therapeutics.
- Easter eggs, 323.
- See Eggs.
- Eau de Mille
Fleurs, made of cow dung, 30, 330;
- in medicine, see Therapeutics.
- Eggs, in “Cures by Transplantation” (q.
v.); a plausible explanation of the meaning of the custom of
exchanging Easter eggs, 465.
- Emetics. See Therapeutics.
- Enchantment. See Magic.
- Esculapius ate excrement, 129.
- Eucharist, errors in connection with the doctrine
of the, 54, 55, 56.
- Eucharistic bread sprinkled with human semen by the
Manicheans and Albigenses, 220.
- Eunuch, the urine of, used as an
aphrodisiac, 224;
- also
as an antiphrodisiac, 224;
- and as a remedy for sterility, 233,
281;
- emasculation,
a religious rite among Hottentots, 238, 239;
- also among the Galli,
priests of Cybele, 394.
- Evergreens at Christmas. See Mistletoe.
- Excrement, Animal.
See Therapeutics, Ordeals, Myths, Insults, Sacrifice, Industries, Agriculture, Commerce,
Fuel, Hair, Smoking, Philters, Witchcraft, Virility.
- Excrement eaten, 240.
- Excrement gods, of Romans, of Egyptians,
of Assyrians, of Hebrews, of Mexicans; Esculapius an excrement
god; the excrement gods of the Moabites; Bel-Phegor an excrement
god, 127, 128,
129, 130, 131, 132.
- Excrement, Human, see Grand Lama of
Thibet;
- in Medicine, see Therapeutics;
- in
Punishments, see Ordeals and
Punishments;
- in Initiation, see Initiation;
- in Industries,
see Industries;
- in
Witchcraft, see Witchcraft;
- was believed to be the greatest panacea
against Witchcraft;
- see Cures
by Transplantation.
- See also Agriculture, Commerce,
Fuel, Hair Dye,
Hair, Philters,
Courtship and
Marriage, Virility, Ligatures, War
Customs, Divination, Ordeals, Myths,
Insults, Cosmetics, Amulets and Talismans.
- Excrement, in jewelry, 184.
- Exorcism. See Incantation.
- Ezekiel, Hebrew prophet, 119,
120, 121;
- eats human ordure in his food; eats cow-dung in his
food; lies for 390 days on one side and 40 days on the other, 120;
- an explanation of his
behavior, 241.
- Fairies, 232.
- Festivals, religious, their
commemorative character, 24.
- Fetiches. See Idols, Gods, Amulets, and
Talismans.
- Fingers, human, necklace of, deposited by the author in
the National Museum, Washington, D. C., 364.
- Flap-Dragons. See “Healths in Urine,”
229.
- Flattery, Cape (B. North America), Indians of, have
an orgy induced by poisonous mushrooms, 48, 65.
- Flatulence, of fairies, 87;
- flatulence would
kill the Eskimo god “Torngarsuk,” if witchcraft were going on in
a house, 157;
- the
Devil put to flight by flatulence, 163, 444;
- flatulence avoided
by the Hebrews while at prayer, also by the Parsis; considered a
deadly insult by Bedouins and Afghans, 161,
257;
- a contest for
championship among the Arabs, 161;
- adored by the Romans, by the Egyptians, by the Hebrews,
by the Moabites, by the Assyrians, in the worship of Bel-peor,
127 to 163;
- the
bibliography of the subject, 162;
- tenures of land in England by flatulence,
165, 166, 167;
- a toll of
flatulence exacted of prostitutes who for the first time crossed
the bridge of Montluc in France, 168;
- called “Sir Reverence,” by the Irish immigrants
to the United States, 169;
- in games in England, 173;
- Satan “lets a f—t,” in the old Moralities, 173;
- the punishment for,
among small boys in Philadelphia, Pa., 174,
175, 176;
- in obscene tales, 119, 120.
- Flesh, Human. See Mummy,
Corpse, Therapeutics.
- “Flowers as Emblems” (Standard, London), 298.
- Fly Agaric. See Mushroom.
- Fly Poison. See Mushroom,
Amanita, Agaric, 58.
- Fox, Charles James, the English orator, his essay upon
flatulence; essay upon wind, 112.
- Fuel, human excrement said to have been used
as, 120;
- the excrement
of animals known to have been used as, 120,
195, 196, 197, 198;
- among Israelites, 120.
- Fullers. See Industries, Bleaching.
- Fungus. See Mushroom, Mistletoe.
- Games, 252,
253, 254;
- sailors’, 254;
- harvest, 253.
- Garlic, Lamas abstain from it
while making mani pills, 60;
- Chinese priests abstain from it while sacrificing,
95;
- used by the
Scandinavians to frustrate witchcraft, 96;
- an article of diet from the earliest ages,
96;
- the smell of
garlic accounted a sign of vulgarity in the time of Shakespeare,
96;
- offered to the
manes of the dead by the Greeks, 96;
- invoked as a God by the Egyptians, 96;
- not eaten by the
Pelusians, 96;
- Peruvian
priests abstained from it while engaged in sacrifice, 95.
- Gods believed to become incarnate
in the medicine men, 59,—see Lamas;
- children in the
Samoan Islands are called the “excrement of such and such a god,” 69;
- Bacchus or Dionysius,
62;
- Mithras, 62;
- “Bread of the Gods”
(Mexico), 90;
- Egyptian
gods, 94;
- onions
and garlic adored as gods, 94.
- See also Mushrooms and Mistletoe, Dung-Gods, Cloacina, Crepitus.
- Gods, heathen, idea of, 157.
- Golden Bough, The, James G. Frazer, M. A., London, 1890.
See Frazer.
- Gomez. See Nirang.
- Grace, Herb of, Rue so called.
- Grand Lama of Thibet,
his excrements made into amulets, 43,
44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52;
- his urine mixed in
food, 44;
- the same ideas
in Ireland, 57, 68, 60;
- and in Uganda, Africa, 60;
- the excrement of the Grand
Lama made into snuff, 214.
- Guerlichon, Saint, Phallic statue near Bruges, 430.
- Hair, 240;
- in medicine,—see Therapeutics,
343, 345.
- See also “Cures
by Transplantation,” 345, 412.
- See Witchcraft.
- Hair, urine used in eradicating dandruff from,
198, 199, 280, 314;
- excrement of different kinds used as a dye for, 199;
- camel’s dung and urine
good for, 280;
- bull’s
urine good for, 280.
- Ha-o-kah, the anti-Natural god of the Sioux, 106.
- Harvest Games. See Games.
- Haschish. See Intoxicants.
- “Healths in urine,” 229.
- See Flap-Dragons.
- Helmont, Von. See Oritrika.
- Herb of Grace, Rue so-called. See Rue, 224, 225.
- Holi, huli, hulica, festival of,
432, 434.
- Holy water, 51,
60, 61, 105, 108, 116, 211, 225, 228, 229, 247, 261, 264, 383, 388, 394, 398, 399, 428, 431;
- sweet-scented water
used in sacred rites by Lamas, 51;
- the urine of the Hottentot medicine men was looked upon as
holy water, 60, 229;
- the water of the mistletoe used as, 105, 108.
- See also “Water of
Immortality.”
- Cow urine regarded as holy
water by Parsees and Hindus, 116;
- holy water superseded a former use of urine,
211, 261;
- urine used instead of, in “Witches’ Mass,”
383, 388, 394, 397, 398;
- the water of the
river Ganges held to be holy, 428;
- lingam, 304,
305, 431;
- “yellow water,” 431.
- Hom, the sacred plant of the Magi; its resemblance to
mistletoe, 101.
- “Hommes habillés en Femme,” 22,
23.
- Horns, as symbols of power, 408;
- in witchcraft, 245.
- Hospitality. In Siberia, women are presented
to distinguished guests who must drink their urine, 228, 316.
- Hugo, Victor, refers to the tax of flatulence imposed
upon prostitutes in France, 168.
- “Hum,” the sacred drink of the Parsis, 380.
- Hunting and fishing, mistletoe ensured success in, 109;
- sacrifices offered to
the god of, 161;
- bladders
worn by distinguished Hottentot hunters, 244.
- Idols, 354;
- women of the, 406.
- “Impenetrability of Weapons,” 219.
- Incantation. See
under Witchcraft; see also Singing, Music.
- Incantations, 218.
- Industries, 177 to
195.
- Initiation, 189,
240, 243, 383, 384;
- Indians compelled to eat cow-dung before, 114, 119;
- tattooing upon, 185;
- Parsis drink bull urine, 238;
- Hottentot young men emasculated and sprinkled
with urine at time of, 238, 239;
- Eskimo candidate for the
honor of medicine men, had to be accustomed to the smell of urine from
babyhood, 239;
- initiation
of witches, 402.
- See also
Confirmation.
- Insanity. See Mania.
- Insults, 87,
114, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 379;
- ordure and urine
in, 87;
- the Hebrews
revile each other’s temples, calling them “Houses of Dung,” 114.
- Intoxicants, sacred character
of, 75, 89, 90, 91;
- at weddings, 229.
- See Mushrooms, Mistletoe, Haschish, Wine, Urine.
- Intoxication, sacred, 380.
- Ireland, called the “Urinal of the Planets,” 269.
- Isaiah, Hebrew prophet, supposed to refer to the
mistletoe, 101;
- had
attacks of mania, 121;
- compared human justice “panno menstruatæ,” 253.
- Jewelry, excrement as, 184.
- Jews’ Ears. See Mushrooms.
- Kadeshim, 406.
- Kashima, 206, 207, 434.
- Kempis, Thomas à, compared all human joys to dung, 271.
- King’s Evil, could be cured by the touch of the
king, 60, 61;
- or by that of a menstruating woman, 60, 61:
- the first of these beliefs is evidently a “survival” of
man worship, 60, 61;
- could be cured by the urine of a male child, 300.
- Kingsley, J. W., M.D., his views on Ur-orgies, 65, 70.
- Kissing. See under Phallism, 103,
104, 173, 222;
- under Mistletoe,
103, 104.
- As a religious rite in the Christian
church, 104;
- kissing the post of Billingsgate, London, 173.
- “Knife, The,” a secret order of the Zuñis, 6;
- “Knife, the Winged,” a god
of the Zuñis of New Mexico, 9.
- Kutka, a god of the Kamtchatkans, falls in love with his
own excrement, 267.
- Lajarde, his definition of “Cow’s Water,” 113.
- Lamas, 42,
43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 58, 59, 82, 118, 126;
- among the Irish, 58,
69, 82.
- See
Grand Lama of Thibet, Priests, Buddhists.
- Lamas of Thibet, 358.
- See Bhikshunis, Buddhists.
- Latrines, 131-153.
- Loretto, shrine of, tattooing practised at, 190.
- Love-Philters, 223.
- See Philters, Divination, Courtship and Marriage.
- Lustral Water, 240, 400.
- Lustration. See Aspersion, Baptism.
- “Mad Potion,” Wysoccan, 243.
- Magic, mistletoe believed to have magical
powers, 100;
- Osthanes,
the Persian, the first writer upon magic, according to Pliny, 376.
- See under Eunuch, Aphrodisiacs,
Witchcraft, Amulets and Talismans, Charms, Incantations.
- Magical Impenetrability. See under War Customs.
- Mandrake, 376.
- Mandrake, before pulling it out of the ground, it was
anointed with the urine of a woman and the catamenia of a virgin, 376.
- “Mangeurs de Blanc,” 287.
- Mania, induced by drinking the water
of the “Borgie well” of Glasgow, 76;
- induced by poisonous mushrooms, 79;
- human ordure and urine a
cure for, 314, 339;
- Ezekiel and Isaiah had attacks of, 121.
- Manicheans, bathed in urine, 211;
- sprinkled the
Eucharistic bread with semen, 229.
- Man worship, 59,
60, 61, 459, 460,—
- see Grand Lama of
Thibet;
- see Gurus;
- see Patriarch of Constantinople,
36;
- see Excrement, Pedung;
- the same ideas in Ireland, 60;
- and in Uganda, Africa, 60;
- the existence of man worship in Europe, 61;
- connected with the
belief in the power of the king’s touch, to cure the King’s Evil, 61.
- Marriage. See Courtship and Marriage.
- Marrow, human, in medicine, see Therapeutics;
- in
witchcraft, see Witchcraft.
- Matthew, Saint, compares all human joys to dung, 271.
- Meconium,—see Therapeutics;
- a cosmetic,
see Cosmetics.
- Medicine-men of the Ove-hereros, Africa urinate on the
sick in order to effect cures, 339.
- Menstruation. See Catamenia.
- “Merde du Diable,” assafœtida so called, 444.
- Merde, Holy. See Excrement.
- Metals,
transmutation of. See Potable
Gold.
- Human urine used in effecting, 183.
- Milk vessels in Africa, washed out with human
urine, 199;
- a good
flow of milk assured by washing the cow’s udders with urine, 211;
- a good flow of
milk assured in a woman’s breasts, by washing them with urine, 211;
- in medicine,—see Therapeutics;
- sprinkled
by nursing women upon a fire, 391;
- milk of cow sprinkled upon the lingam, 428, 431.
- Mistletoe, 74,
75, 92, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 154, 301;
- spoken of in Cingalese Myths, 92,
99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106;
- why venerated by the Druids, 99,
100, 101;
- adored by the Massagetæ and the Persians, 101, 102;
- and by the ancients generally, 100;
- a cure for sterility,
101, 102;
- Virgil called it “Branch of Gold,” 101;
- Charon dumb
in the presence of, 101;
- a Phallic symbol, 101, 102;
- a berry plucked off with
every kiss, 103;
- kissing
under, 103;
- dedicated to
Mylitta, 103;
- mistletoe
of the oak, pear, and hazel, will produce abortion, 104;
- alleged to have been
held sacred by the mound-builders, 107.
- Mistletoe, when found growing on the oak,
represented man, 110.
- Mock baptism, 232.
- Mortuary ceremonies,
150, 152, 162, 261, 262, 263;
- purification in, 150;
- the vagina, urethra, nostrils, rectum, etc., of corpses
closed by the Pelew islanders, 162;
- defilement from touching a corpse, 261.
- Mound-builders, alleged to have held mistletoe sacred,
76.
- Mourning, 262;
- urine and ordure as signs of, 262;
- Australians
in mourning rub themselves with the moisture from the corpse,
261.
- See Mortuary Ceremonies.
- Muhongo, an African boy from Angola.
- Muk-a-Moor. See Mushrooms.
- Mummy, in medicine, see Therapeutics;
- in
love-philters, see Philters.
- Museum, National. See National Museum.
- Museum, Washington, D.C., 364.
- Mushrooms, poisonous mushrooms used in
Ur-orgies, 65 to 91;
- obeyed
as a god by the Siberians, 70, 75;
- at the “Holy
Well of the Borgie,” Glasgow, 76;
- adored as a god by the Africans, 79;
- detested by Hindus, 92.
- Musk, odor of, restored by hanging it in a
privy, 181;
- in medicine,—see Therapeutics;
- human
excrement was called musk by Paracelsus, 341.
- Mylitta, Babylonian goddess of venery; prostitution in
her temples, 101, 103,
404, 405, 406, 407, 408.
- Myths, 151,
226, 256, 266-271.
- Nails, in medicine,—see Therapeutics;
- see Witchcraft; Cures by Transplantation.
- Names, 59, 123, 124, 442;
- in Samoa,
children are named the “excrement of Tongo,” or some other god,
59;
- in India, and
among the Parsis, children are sprinkled with cow urine, when
named, 153;
- the name
of the victim had to be invoked in a substitutive sacrifice, 124;
- the name of the
patient had to be mentioned when medicinal herbs were gathered, 442.
- Nanacatl, the poisonous mushroom used in Mexican orgies,
89, 90.
- Necklace of human fingers, deposited by the author in
the National Museum, Washington, D. C., 364.
- Necromancy. See Witchcraft.
- “Nehue-cue,” a secret order of the Zuñis,
7, 8, 9.
- Nirang, 8,
122, 391.
- See Urine, Gomez, Cow Urine, Lustrations.
- Omens. See Divination.
- Ordeals and Punishments,
249, 250, 251, 252, 253.
- Ordure. See Excrement.
- Origen, 108.
- Osthanes, the magician, accompanied the army of
Xerxes into Greece, and, according to Pliny, was the first writer
on magic; his views on the magical effects of human urine, 376.
- Ove-hereros, of Africa, their medicine-men urinate on
the sick in order to effect cures, 339.
- Parsis, anoint themselves with the ordure and urine
of the cow, 7, 8, 48;
- drink cow urine, 7, 8, 48,
113, 122, 211;
- asperse themselves with
cow urine, 113, 122;
- use of bull urine at time of
confirmation, 238.
- Parturition, mushrooms given
to bring about pregnancy, 83;
- the Hindu women’s method for aiding pregnancy, 93;
- mistletoe given to aid
childbirth, 100;
- and to
cure sterility, 100, 101,
102, 103, 104;
- human ordure and
urine drunk to remedy sterility, 126;
- Apache-Yuma women tattoo themselves when
anxious to become mothers, 186;
- ceremonies connected with the first pregnancy of Guinea
negresses, 210, 211;
- the breasts of Scotch women bathed with human
urine, 210, 211;
- the breasts of the women of the French
peasantry bathed with human urine, 210,
211;
- a pessary of
meconium to cure sterility, 233;
- English women drank the urine of husband to aid them in
labor, 234;
- idem, France,
235;
- Germany, etc. 305;
- teeth worn as amulets
during pregnancy, 364;
- in
the Kala-Vala, it is narrated that a maiden became pregnant after
swallowing a berry, 108.
- Paschasius, a Roman judge, sprinkled Saint Lucy with
urine because she was a witch, 394.
- Pastimes. See Games.
- Paul, the apostle, compares all human joys to dung, 271.
- Pelusium, onion was worshipped as a god in, 96;
- the people did not eat
onions or garlic, 96;
- they
adored flatulence, 155.
- Penance. See Ordeals
and Punishments.
- Perspiration, a component of love-philters; in
medicine, 290, 412.
- See Therapeutics, Cures by Transplantation.
- Phallic dances, the Phallus fungus, 79;
- a Phallic
importance seems to have attached to the onion, 96;
- likewise to the
mistletoe, 103;
- “Jack
of Hilton,” apparently a Phallic idol, 165,
166;
- the
“Mannikin” of Brussels, another, 165,
166;
- the Phallic
game of “Cockle Bread,” 221, 222.
- See under Lingam.
- Phallism, 7,
12, 79, 103, 117, 165, 166, 221, 222, 261, 428, 429, 430, 431.
- Pharmacy, among savages, is always a matter of
religion, 277.
- See Therapeutics.
- Philosopher’s stone, 226,
304, 305.
- See Transmutation of
Metals;
- see “Potable
Gold.”
- Philters, ordure and urine in,
216, 217, 218, 223;
- death the punishment for making them of ordure and urine,
216;
- philters were also
made of perspiration, semen, and catamenia, 216,
217, 218, 219;
- made by transfusion of
blood, 219;
- anti-philters,
224, 225, 226.
- Phosphorus. See Industries.
- “Piss, the more you, the less you cry,” 275.
- Placenta, see After-Birth;
- in philters,
see Philters.
- Plaster, see Industries.
- Pledges, 228, 240, 427, 457, 458;
- human urine drunk as a pledge of friendship in
Siberia, 228.
- See
under Blood Covenant, 240;
- see under Human Sacrifice, 457.
- Poison, 58, 234,—see Mushrooms;
- see “Imbando;” human ordure an
antidote for, 311, 312,
313, 322, 323;
- human ordure also
used by the Japanese as a cure for the wounds of poisonous weapons,
311, 312;
- also for the same purpose by other nations,
312, 313;
- the patient’s own urine an antidote for, 320, 322;
- the bites of venomous animals, mad dogs, and snakes,
cured by human ordure, 312;
- and by urine, 414;
- but there was no “Cure by Transplantation” for poison, 412.
- “Potable Gold,” 303, 305.
- See Transmutation of
Metals, 183.
- Pregnancy. See Parturition.
- Presents, those received from the devil always turned
into filth, 401.
- Priests, 10,
11, 12, 15, 19, 20, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 60, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 89, 109, 110, 115, 116, 128, 129, 135, 156;
- the water in which they
defecated, drunk by pious Irish kings, 58;
- the Chinese priests have mushrooms as part of
their diet, 81;
- the
chief priest of the Romans was called the greatest bridge builder,
169, 170, 171;
- priests tattooed the
young men, 185, 186;
- the priests of Jupiter Ammon made sal ammoniac, 195;
- Hottentot priests
sprinkled their urine upon wedding guests, young warriors, and mourners,
229;
- priests were the
earthly representatives of their deities, 322, 362;
- the skulls of Buddhist
priests used in divination, 359.
- Prostitution, sacred prostitution, 101, 103, 168, 404, 405, 406, 407;
- a toll of flatulence
exacted of prostitutes crossing bridge of Montluc in France, 168, 169;
- in the South Sea Islands, 135;
- in Paris, 337;
- prostitutes in Rome offered expiations of catamenia,
350;
- the prostitutes
of Amsterdam believed that horse-dung brought them luck, 405;
- the prostitutes of
Babylon, 404, 405,
406;
- of Patagonia, 407.
- Purification.
See Lustration, Mortuary Ceremonies, Aspersion, Holy
Water.
- Queen of Madagascar
asperses her subjects with the water in which she has bathed, 60.
- Rain, the urine of the gods, 270.
- Rainbow, 180, 267, 442;
- regarded generally by the savage mind as a panacea, 442,
- and by the Africans as a
serpent, 267.
- Rattles, 6, 437;
- sometimes consulted as
oracles, 437;
- and adored
as a god, 437.
- Raven talked to its own excrement, 270.
- Reverence, Sir Reverence, 170,
247, 253.
- Ring, urination through the wedding
ring baffled witchcraft, 230, 231;
- rings were formerly
exchanged by bridal couple, 230.
- See Amulets and
Talismans, Courtship and
Marriage, Circle.
- Ritual of the Feast of the Ass, 15;
- of the Lamas for making
mani pills, 49, 50, 51;
- of the Moslems for
urinating, 141;
- of
bridge-builders in the Middle Ages, 169,
170, 171;
- of Bel-Phegor, 173,—see under
Bel-Phegor;
- see also
Kissing the Post of Billingsgate;
- of the Manicheans and Albigenses, 220.
- Ritualistic cannibalism, 64,
155;
- among Hebrews, 155.
- Roman Catholic Church, councils interdict the use
of ordure and urine in witchcraft, 216,
394;
- also
interdict love-philters, 220, 221;
- used rue in exorcism, 225.
- Rosemary, 399.
- Rue, 225;
- called “Herb of Grace,” 225;
- an urino-genital
irritant, 225;
- used
to asperse congregations, 225, 245;
- died if touched
by a menstruating woman, 350;
- used in the manufacture of anti-philters,
225.
- See Tree and Plant Worship.
- Sacred intoxication, 381.
- Sacrifice,—see also Oblations, Votive
Offerings, see Human Sacrifice, see
Substitutive Sacrifice,
Abstinence;
- Chinese priests abstain from garlic while offering
sacrifice, 95;
- garlic was offered in sacrifice by Greeks and
Egyptians, 95;
- cow dung
and urine in sacrifice in India and Thibet, 112,
113, 114, 115, 116, 117;
- ashes of cow dung
used by the Hindus and Hebrews, 113, 114;
- of ordure placed on
the altars of the Assyrian Venus, 129, 130;
- ditto of Mexican dung
gods, 131;
- of ordure
and urine on the altars of Bel-Phegor, 132,
133;
- sacrifices
of ear-wax, saliva, mucus, tears, 132,
133.
- See Ceremonial Observances.
- Sagard, Père, 234; Histoire du Canada,
edition of Paris, 1885.
- Sakya-Muni. See Buddha.
- Salagram. See Lingam.
- Sal Ammoniac. See Industries.
- Saliva, 202,
417,—see also Spitting;
- as
an oblation to Bel-peor, 132, 133;
- in medicine,—see Therapeutics;
- see “Cures by Transplantation.”
- Salt, urine employed as a substitute for,
118, 199, 204;
- and in the manufacture
of, 193;
- salt and
water as a substitute for urine, 211;
- in witchcraft, 379, 403,—see Witchcraft;
- not generally eaten by witches, 402;
- used by the Irish to
drive away witches, 404.
- Saltpetre. See Industries.
- Samoan Islands, filthy names given to children, as a
matter of religion, 59.
- Santa Claus, his derivation from polar countries, 209.
- Saturnalia. See Bacchanalia,
Huli.
- Scatomancy, or Divination by Excrement.
See Divination.
- Scatophagi (excrement eaters). See Excrement.
- Scybalaophagi. See Scatophagi,
Excrement.
- Sectarial Marks of the Hindus. See Tattooing.
- Secundines, an anti-philter, 226-235.
- See After-Birth.
- Semen in love-philters, 217, 219,—see Philters;
- in medicine, see
Therapeutics;
- in
witchcraft, see Witchcraft.
- Semen lini, 297.
- Shamrock. See Druids.
- Shampooing. See Hair.
- Signatures, Doctrine of. See Cures by Transplantation.
- Silence, in ceremonial observances, 414, 442;
- in gathering medicinal plants, 442.
- Skin, 292.
- Skin, Human, in Therapeutics. See Therapeutics.
- Skull, human, in medicine.—see Therapeutics;
- a remedy
for witchcraft; moss growing on skull; in medicine; in the religious
ceremonies of the Lamas, 359.
- Smoking, buffalo dung smoked, 182, 214;
- hen dung smoked in adulterated opium, 182;
- the excrement of
the Grand Lama used as snuff, 214;
- pig dung used as snuff, 214;
- the people of Achaia smoked cow dung, 214.
- See also Incense.
- Smudges. See also Fuel.
- Snake, 33;
- as food, 33;
- snake dances, 27.
- Snuff, the excrement of the Grand Lama
made into snuff, 214;
- pig dung used as, 214, 329;
- powdered skulls used
as, 252;
- moss growing on
skull used as, 360.
- See
Smoking, Tobacco, Excrement, Grand
Lama.
- Soap, antedated by urine, 140,
202, 203.
- Sorcery. See Witchcraft, Enchantment.
- Spatalomancy, divination by Skin, Bones
and Excrement. See Divination, Scatomancy.
- Spells. See Magic.
- Stercoraceous chair of the Popes, 213.
- “Stercoranistes,” or “Stercorarians,” a sect charged
with believing that the sacred elements in the Eucharist were subject
to digestion, 54, 55, 56.
- “Stercoraire,—Chaise des Papes,” 213.
- Stercus, Sterculius, Stercutus, Sterquilinus. See Dung Gods.
- Sterility, 226,
236.
- Sterility. See Therapeutics.
- Substitutive
sacrifice, Ezekiel substitutes cow dung for human ordure in his
food, 119, 120,
121;
- the cow, a
substitute for human sacrifice, 122;
- ox, buffalo, and goat, ditto, 123,
124, 125, 126;
- cock and chamois,
ditto, 171;
- wolf or goat,
ditto, 171;
- chicken,
ditto, 252.
- See Survivals.
- Sulphur, “Occidental Sulphur,” a name for human ordure
when administered in medicine, 424.
- Sun Dance, 27.
- Superstition. See Survivals,
Religion.
- Survivals, burlesque survivals,
306, 307,
308, 432,
433, 434,
435, 436,
437.
- See Substitutive Sacrifice.
- Sweat-Bath. See Purification, Lustration.
- Sympathetic Cures. See Cures by Transplantation,
Color Symbolism, Doctrine of Signatures.
- Sympathies, the
Doctrine of. See Color Symbolism, Cures by Transplantation; Similia Similibus.
- “Szombatiaks,” of Transylvania, 18, 19.
- Tallow, Human, in medicine. See Therapeutics.
- Tanning. See Industries.
- Tartar, the impurities from human teeth, used in
medicine. See Therapeutics.
- Tattooing, 184,
185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190;
- in Australia, 187;
- among American Indians, 185,
186;
- among
Burmese, 186;
- the
sectarial marks of the Hindus, 186;
- “Tattooed Face,” a god of the Mandans, 186;
- tattooing of captives, 186.
- Teeth,—see Dentrifice;
- in medicine, 255,—see Therapeutics;
- to
frustrate witchcraft, 281,—see Witchcraft.
- Tenacity of Ceremonial. See Survivals.
- Tenures of land, 165, 166, 167;
- obscene tenures in England, 165,
166, 167;
- “Ancient” Blount, 165,
166, 167;
- of land by flatulence, in England, 165, 166, 167;
- the antiquity of these
tenures, 167.
- Testes, testicles, 230;
- of bridegroom anointed with “Zibethum,” 230.
- See, also, Eunuchs.
- Testicles, 225, 230;
- of goat and fox, used
as aphrodisiacs, 225;
- of
bridegroom anointed, 230.
- Therapeutic Hagiology, 157,
158, 159, 160, 423, 445, 446.
- Therapeutics, 277 to 343 inclusive; 344
to 365 inclusive.—see Parturition,
Courtship and Marriage, Sterility, Virility, Ligatures, Amulets
and Talismans, Cosmetics, Witchcraft, etc.;
- the
Heathen theory of therapeutics, 423.
- Thibetan doctors churn the patient’s urine before making
a diagnosis of disease, 273.
- Toasts, urine drunk in, 229, 238.
- Tobacco, cured by hanging in privies, 181;
- mixed with buffalo
or rhinoceros dung for smoking, 214;
- used by the Irish to drive away fairies, 403.
- Tolls, on bridges, roads, etc.,
166, 167, 168, 169;
- of flatulence, exacted from prostitutes,
166, 167, 168, 169.
- “Torngarsuk,” an Eskimo god, could be killed by
flatulence, 157.
- Totem. See Clan, Tattooing.
- “Transplantation,
Cures by,” 378 to 427 inclusive, 439, 441, 442, 443, 444, 457, 458, 460.
- See Animal Worship, Tree and Plant Worship.
- Tree and plant worship,
427,—see Rue;
- Mistletoe, 56, 57;
- Aconite, 150;
- Dandelion,
150;
- Mushroom,
56.
- See Oak.
- Urinals. See Latrines.
- Urination in bed, charm to prevent, 375.
- Urination, posture in, 141,
151, 152;
- Mahometans, 141;
- Apaches, men and women, 151;
- ancient Irish, 152;
- Italians, 152;
- Chinese, 152;
- Greeks, Romans, etc., 375.
- See Ceremonial
Observances.
- Urine, 236,
239, 240, 241;
- used as a
stimulant in South America, Malacca, Bavaria, and Central Africa,
332, 333;
- given to new-born babes in England, 239, 240, 241;
- urine drinking,
239, 240, 241;
- poured upon the head of
a woman in labor by Eskimo, 236.
- Urine of medicine men sprinkled upon Hottentot bride
and groom, 59, 228, 229;
- the Queen of Madagascar
sprinkled her subjects with the water in which she had bathed, 60;
- a similar custom at
Russian weddings, 231;
- a
remedy for witchcraft, 216,—see Witchcraft;
- in conjunction
with the lizard is an antiphrodisiac, 224,—see
Ligature, Virility,
Wedding, Wedding Ring;
- the Eskimo boy who aspires to become a medicine
man must accustom himself to the smell of urine from boyhood,
239;
- urine
in sacrifice,—see Sacrifice, Lustration, Aspersions,
Oblations, War
Customs, Divination;
- urine in cosmetics,—see Cosmetics;
- urine
in witchcraft,—see Witchcraft,
Initiation;
- urine in bread-making, 32,
39;
- urine in
industries,—see Agriculture, Industries, Tanning, Bleaching, Dyeing;
- urine as a dentrifrice, 203,
204, 205;
- urine in medicine,—see Therapeutics;
- in
love-philters,—see Love-Philters;
- “urine-casting,” 396;
- urine as a beverage, 6, 7, 8, 9,
22, 30, 36, 38, 39, 40, 58, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 86, 87;
- probably used as such by the fairies,
86, 87, 88, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118;
- also by Hindu and Hebrew fanatics, 119, 120, 126;
- was drunk to ease
the pains of pregnancy, 233;
- English women in labor drank their husband’s urine,
234;
- this seems to
have been a very ancient practice, 235,
236;
- urine in
such cases among the Eskimo, 236;
- Parsis drink bull’s urine at Confirmation,
238;
- children,
at birth, forced to drink urine, 239,
240;
- water in
which babe has just been bathed drunk by Indians of California,
midwives, 239;
- the
Ponca Indians made an Omaha calumet-bearer drink urine, 257;
- urine in “cures by
transplantation,”—see “Cures
by Transplantation,” Lingam;
- the urine of the Grand Lama of Thibet mixed
in food, 44.
- See
Insults, Myths, Tolls.
- Urine formerly thrown out
of windows in Paris, Bordeaux, Madrid, Edinburgh, and many other cities
of Europe, 136, 137,
138;
- urine
dances, 6, 7, 8, 9, 22,
30, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 87.
- See also under Feast of Fools.
- Urinoscopy, 272,
273, 274, 331, 385, 386, 415;
- complicated with divination, (q. v.)
272, 273, 274;
- seems to have prevailed in all parts of
the world, 272, 273,
274;
- among the Romans,
272, 273;
- Arabians, 272, 273;
- in England,
272, 273, 274;
- in Germany,
272, 273, 274;
- France, 272, 273, 274;
- among the Greeks,
272, 273, 274.
- Virgil calls mistletoe the “Branch of Gold,” 72, 78.
- Vitriol. See Cures
by Transplantation.
- Vodka. See Intoxicants.
- Voudooism. See Witchcraft.
- Waltz, 401.
- War customs, 237, 242, 243, 256;
- captive girls tattooed by the Mojaves, 130;
- young Hottentot warriors
emasculated, 238;
- human
ordure an antidote for poisoned weapons, 312,
323;
- the custom of
drinking from human skulls, 359.
- See Sacrifice.
- “Water, Alchymical,” made of urine, 183.
- “Water, Bitter,” of the Hebrews, 255.
- “Water, Celestial,” 394, 398.
- “Water, Fore-spoken,” 398, 399.
- “Water, Lustral,” 240, 400.
- “Water of All Flowers,” 366,
367.
- See Millefleurs.
- “Water of Dung,” 199.
- See Excrement.
- “Water of Juniper,” 398, 399.
- “Water of Immortality,” made
of mistletoe, 108.
- Water
worship,—see Holy Water, Lustration;
- water
used ceremonially by Moslems for ablutions after evacuation,
141, 142, 143;
- by the Romans,—see
Latrines;
- negresses
of Guinea, pregnant for the first time, must bathe in the sea,
210, 211;
- water in which a baby had been bathed for
the first time, was drunk by the California Indian midwives,
239;
- “yellow
water” of the Feast of Holica, 432, 433, 434.
- See also Religion.
- Weaning of children in Guinea, 211, 236.
- Weddings,—see Courtship and Marriage, 48;
- Ur-orgies at Korak
weddings, 65, 66, 67;
- urine drunk at the
weddings of the Tchuktchi, in Siberia, 228;
- urine of the bride sprinkled upon guests
at Moorish weddings, 228;
- water in which the Russian bride has bathed, ditto,
231;
- wine drunk at
weddings may have superseded urine of the bride, in England, Ireland,
etc., 228;
- wine
glasses broken at Jewish weddings, 228;
- the urine of the medicine men was sprinkled upon
the wedded couple among Hottentots, 228, 229;
- urination through
the wedding ring baffled witches, 230, 231.
- Wells, Holy. See Water
Worship.
- Whale dung, amber believed to be, 271;
- ambergris, ditto, 271.
- Wine, that used by fairies seems to have
been urine, 87;
- possibly
superseded urine at weddings, 229;
- wine-glasses broken at Hebrew weddings, 229, 230;
- in witchcraft, 398;
- in “cures by transplantation,”—see Cures by Transplantation;
- see under Lingam, 429, 430, 431;
- “Priapic Wine,” 429.
- Witchcraft, 146,
200, 373 to 434
inclusive.
- Lapland witches used poisonous
fungi, 81, 86,—see Fairies, “Fairy Butter;”
- garlic used by the Scandinavians to frustrate witches,
95;
- and also by the
Irish, 95;
- mistletoe
used for the same purpose, 107, 108;
- witches could not
hurt those who wore mistletoe or carried knives with handles made of
it, 108, 109;
- sacred powder frustrates witchcraft, 116;
- witchcraft
in connection with the building of the bridge of Respoden, 116;
- Laps believe in the
potency of human ordure and urine in, 184.
- See Cures
by Transplantation, Concluding Remarks, Amulets and Talismans.
- Wysoccan, the “Mad Potion,” 243.
- Zoölatry. See Animal
Worship.