GENERAL INDEX
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Lawson, J. C. (John Cuthbert)
animals affected by, 11–12;
cures for maladies caused by, 14;
effects of, 10;
inanimate things affected by, 12;
in Greece, 9–15;
means of averting, 14;
persons affected by, 11;
to whom attributed, 9–10;
widespread belief in, 8
Excommunication (see also ‘binding’ and ‘loosing’), 401;
causing non-dissolution, instances of, 398 ff.;
effects of, 386, 396 ff.;
origin of, 406;
pagan influence on doctrine of, 401 f.
Execration (see Curses, Imprecations)
Exhumation, 540;
at end of three years, 487
Exile, as punishment of homicide, 445, 455
Exorcism, by witch, 14–15
‘Fair Lady of the Mountains,’ 166
Faith-cures, 60, 62
Fallmerayer, 25
Fasts, strictly observed, 574
Fate, 289
Fates, the, 120–130;
appearance of, 124;
at birth of Athena, 130;
character of, 125;
distribution of functions among, 127;
functions of, 124, 127;
inexorability of, 122;
invocations of, 122, 128;
number of, 124;
offerings to, 120, 121, 125;
prayer to, 123;
seen or heard, 125–6;
the lesser, 127–8;
visits of, 125;
wrath of, 126
Festival-dress, as heirloom from mother to daughter, 537