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.