Executed Criminals and Folk-Medicine

This essay sees “through” an object produced by Portuguese folklore: the moliceiro boat of Ria de Aveiro, whose most original characteristic is the group of four different panels painted on each boat. These unique panels have echoed national mythologies and have undergone influence from institutional channels of instruction and propaganda for much of the twentieth century. We will analyse how this boat expresses the inventory of a community's identity, imagination, and practices.     

Folk-Medicine in County Cork

The records of fabulous stones associated with birds are here examined systematically for the first time. Some were purported to be obtained from within the bird and others obtained from the nest. Zahir mora, the Adjutant Bird Stone, was used against snake bite, whilst Alectorius (the Cock Stone), Aetites (the Eagle Stone) and Vulturis (the Vulture Stone) shared a multiplicity of medicinal applications. Quirin (the Hoopoe Stone), Chloritis (the Wagtail Stone) and Corvina (the Crow Stone) supposedly possessed occult powers. The Penguin Stone, Ostrich Stone and Pigeon Stone were probably gastroliths.     

The Magic Numbers Three,Seven and Seventy-Two in Cypriote Folk-Medicine

The Road to Hel, a Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature. By HILDA R. ELLIS : pp. VIII + 208, Cambridge University Press 1943, 12s. 6d. Reviewed by G. Turville-Petre.

CEREMONIAL COSTUMES OF THE PUEBLO INDIANS. By VIRGINIA MORE ROEDIGER. University of California Press : Cambridge University Press. 1942. 908. net folio, 241 pp., 40 coloured plates. Reviewed by B. A..