Agathangelus, prophecies of, 116–7
Alexander the Great, in incantations,
251; in folk tradition, 279-81;
legendary history of, 281-9
ants, omen from, 19
April, 43-6
Armenos, 124

arrack, omen from spilling, 102
arrow-shooting, 27-8

ass, the, in ancient and modern Mace-
donia, 299-300

augury, 104-111
Ayeriko, 224-5, 240-2

Baboyeri, 88

basil, its uses, 93; songs about the, 94
bat, superstition about the, 110
beardless men, superstitious dread of,
105

beasts, benediction of, 223-4
bells, on New Year's Day, 80
betrothal, 150-4; songs, 152-3
Bible, the, in folk-medicine, 227
"binding"
of married people, 171,

232, 234
birds, legends about, 290-4
birth, 123-146

bite, cure for, 230, 233
bleeding, cure for, 230, 233
bones, divination by, 96-7
bonfires, 27-8, 57, 60
"Borrowing Days," the, 23-4
boughs, New Year's, 81

bread, superstitions about, 98; sacred-
ness of, 103-4

"Breeder," popular name for January,

13

"Bright," popular name for Easter, 35
brothers, adopted, 186

bugs, 18, 36

candles, Easter, 36

Carnival, 26

carols, New Year's, 82

cat, omens from, 110-1; leaping over
corpse, 219-20

caterpillars, recipe for driving away, 231
cattle, weather-lore about, 111; cure
of ailing, 224

caul, mysterious veneration of the, 139
charms, 19, 23, 124, 228, 238-40,
258-366

Charos, 102, 128; penny of, 193;
popular conception of, 206-7
Cheese-Sunday, 26-7, 29

child-birth, superstitions connected
with, 124-6, 137-9

choking, omen from, 111-2
christening, 134-7
Christmas, 76–7

Cleaning Week, 30

cock, weather-lore about the, 107
cock's spur, safeguard against the Evil
Eye, 142

coffee, divination by, 95

cornel buds, divination by, 78-9
cripples, superstition about, 105
Cronia, 27

Cross, Feast of the, 60; "Month of

the," 64; Diving for the, 87-8

cross-bows, 27-8

crowns, child born with two, 105
cuckoo, 16-7

curse, dread of parent's, 135, 195, 211,
226; Bishop's, 211 foll.

daisy, divination by plucking a, 46
Days, unlucky, 189-91

dead, feasts of the, 207-10
December, 67-8

dervishes, as vampire-killers, 221; as
expellers or propitiators of evil
spirits, 224-5

dirges, 194-6, 201-2, 205-6
'divination, 95–117

dog, omen from a howling, 107; as a
guardian spirit, 222; as a wood-
spirit, 252

Drakos, wells haunted by the, 18,
260-1; legends about the, 261-3,
264; mythological interpretation of
the, 265

Gipsy fortune-tellers, 225-6

Mohammedan wizards, 225
Moirais, 126-8
"Month-days," 62

moon, new, 71; eclipse of the, 72
morra, game of, 297-8
"mothering," 29
mummers, 88

Naïdis, story of, 129-34, 247-50
nail, a safeguard against evil, 64;
nailing the Vampire, 221
nail-cutting, superstition about, 189-
90; nail-parings, preserved, 214–5
name-day, 122

Nasreddin Khodja, story of, 114
Neraides, 125, 240 foll.
New Year's Day, 77-83
"Night of Power," 86

nightbird, omen from a, 108

nose, premonition from itching, 113;
cure for a bleeding, 230, 233
November, 66-7

nuskas, use of, 224

"Pruner," popular name for January,
13

Purification, feast of the, 14-5; after
child-birth, 137; after a funeral,
203-4; for the Evil Eye, 143; in
folk-medicine, 223

quince-tree, in folk-medicine, 228

rabbit, omen from the encounter of a,
106

rainbow, superstitious belief about
the, 71

rats, omen from, 108
red-haired people, 105

red yarn, charm of the, 19, 23, 124, 228
"Remembrance," game of, 98
rheumatism, cure for, 229
rhinoceros' horn, safeguard against
the Evil Eye, 142-3
riddles, 302 foll., 367 foll.
right and left, 113, 187-8.
ring-dove, legend of the, 293
robbers, charm against, 233
Rousa, feast of the, 40-2

popular

66

'Plough,' Plough-feet,'

names for constellations, 70

portraiture, superstitious dread of,
300-1

possession, by demons, 232, 235, 241
"Precursor Men," 89

premonitions, 111-3

priests, superstition about, 104-5

Prince and the Eagle, story of the,
268-77, 351-7

Princess and the two Dragons, story

prophecies, 116-7

of the, 264

Protomaïa, 46

Paul, 15

Plato, 67

Protais, 15

Solomone, 243

Spyridion, 68

toothache, cure for, 231

tortoise, superstition about the, 109
Triodi, game of, 295-7
turning back, unlucky, 105
"turtle-doves," 35; the bird, 109
"Twelve-Days," 73

"Twins," popular name for November
and December, 67

vinegar, giving out of the house, 101;
omen from spilt, 102
Vintage, "Month of the," 64
Virgin, Feasts of the, 61, 66
Vrykolakas, 217-22

warts, cure for, 230

water, " speechless," 52, 83; giving
out of the house, 101; symbolical
use of, 122; "holy," 124
Water-Spirits, 246, 249-56; -serpent,
256, 265

wax, divination by molten, 52
weasel, omen from the, 108; supersti-
tion and legend about, 109
wedding, preparations, 155-67; cere-
mony, 167-79; banquets, 179-82;
songs, 157-86; toasts, 179
Wednesday, 21, 63, 190–1
whirlwind, incantation, 250-1

Wild Boar, superstition about the,
215-6

wine, rhymes on, 68; omen from
spilt, 102

women, popular opinion on, 122;
rhymes on, 344-5

wood-pigeons, omen from, 109
Wood-Spirits, 250

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