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.