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The evil eye. An account of this ancient and wide spread superstition

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Odd numbers, 406<br />

Odour, breath, voice, 13<br />

Qithanes, 442<br />

Offering cakes, 327, 380<br />

Ogham inscriptions, 290<br />

Ogma the sun-faced, 65<br />

Ogulnius, 313<br />

Ojori, Canon, 28<br />

Okos Bokos, 398<br />

Old Cairo, street in, 219; woman<br />

poisoned looking-glass, 19<br />

Oldest existing amulet, 345<br />

Omens, dread <strong>of</strong> ill, 30<br />

Onion, a preservative, 21 ; stuck<br />

with pins, 55<br />

Onychomancy, 444<br />

Open h<strong>and</strong>, the, 245, 248<br />

Ophiolatreia, 312, 314<br />

Oracle <strong>of</strong> Delphi, 313<br />

Orb <strong>and</strong> cross an amulet, 288<br />

Orientation, 65<br />

Origen, 395<br />

Origin <strong>of</strong> the belief, 3 ;<br />

<strong>of</strong> the gypsies,<br />

73<br />

Origins <strong>of</strong> Eng. Hist., see Elton<br />

Ornaments = crescents, 10<br />

Orpheus <strong>and</strong> Eurydice, 442<br />

Orpheus, De Lapillis, 446<br />

Orphic mysticism, 398<br />

Osiris, 301 ; Apis, 302 ; deri-<br />

vation <strong>of</strong> name, 187 ; god <strong>of</strong><br />

the Nile, 125 ; Horus, 369 ;<br />

Phallus consecrated to, 151, 153 ;<br />

Serapis, 331 ; sits in judgment,<br />

324; slain, 107; the judge, 333<br />

Ossory men turned to wolves, 30<br />

Our Lady's glove, 21 ; trees <strong>and</strong><br />

plants, 98<br />

Overlooked, 4 ; pigs, 56<br />

Over-praising deprecated, 32<br />

Ovid, 12, 382; Fasti, 221, 255,<br />

288, 325 ; Metamorph., 182, 446,<br />

447<br />

Owl, the, 340, 382 ; hooting, 91, 93<br />

Oxford hypnotist, 37<br />

Pact <strong>of</strong> the d<strong>evil</strong>, 55<br />

Pagan lustration, 414<br />

Page, J. L. W., Explorations <strong>of</strong><br />

Dartmoor, Exmoor, etc., 55<br />

Painted cows' horns, 213<br />

Palestra, bath <strong>and</strong>, 383<br />

Pallas Athene, 166<br />

Palmists, 319<br />

INDEX 465<br />

2 H<br />

Pancirolo, 168, 336<br />

"Panthees" (Pantheus), 301<br />

Papyrus, Greek, 395, 449<br />

Parchment, virgin, 400, 401<br />

Paris Exhibition, 196, 197, 219<br />

Parthenopaeus, 174<br />

Parthenope, 358<br />

Parvati <strong>and</strong> Diana, 188<br />

Passages (on <strong>evil</strong> <strong>eye</strong>) in Scripture, 6<br />

Patera, the, 380<br />

Path, animals crossing the, 31<br />

Pausanias, 182, 313<br />

Payne Knight, Symbolic Language,<br />

133, 182, 186, 193, 207, 217,<br />

228, 255, 283, 284, 317, 319,<br />

325,<br />

102<br />

352 ; Worship <strong>of</strong> Priapus,<br />

Peacock's feathers, 119<br />

Peal, " Fading Histories," 73 ; on<br />

Assamese, 112<br />

Peasantry, expressions <strong>of</strong>, 1<br />

Pelekys or axe, 156<br />

Pendent horn, 204<br />

Pennant, Voyage to the Hebrides, 1<br />

Pennell, D<strong>evil</strong>s <strong>of</strong> Notre Dame, 232<br />

Peri<strong>and</strong>er <strong>and</strong> Melissa, 442<br />

Perrot <strong>and</strong> Chipiez, History <strong>of</strong> Art<br />

in Sardinia, 153<br />

Persephone, 335, 336<br />

Persius, Sat., 59, 414, 416, 422<br />

Personal contact, 233<br />

Personification <strong>of</strong> ideas, 88<br />

Peru, 331 ; serpent in, 315<br />

Perugia, Etruscan tomb at, 161<br />

Perugino at the Vatican, 253<br />

Peruvian hieroglyphics, 278, 282 ;<br />

Medusa, 197<br />

Peter Martyr at Florence, 232<br />

Petilia amulet, 398<br />

Petronia family, 358<br />

Petronius, 412, 421, 422<br />

Phallic crosses, 289 ; h<strong>and</strong>, the, 272<br />

Phallism, 281, 368, 369<br />

Phallus, 310; on city walls, 154;<br />

commonest <strong>of</strong> amulets, 148, 153<br />

" Pharisees <strong>of</strong> Science," 46<br />

Pharmacy, 445<br />

Pheasant's tail, 201<br />

Phene, Dr., 305<br />

PhilK, 181<br />

Phoebus, 352<br />

Phoenician amulets, 255 ; phalli, 153<br />

Phoenicians, 442 ; used the mystic<br />

<strong>eye</strong>, 127<br />

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