Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Mnemonic Knots
• 1. Knot-Calendars
• 2. Lee Boo and His "Line"
• 3. Polynesian Knot-Records
• 4. Miscellaneous Knot-Records
• 5. Phylacteries and Fringes
• 6. Abacus, Rosary, and Log Line
• 7. The Peruvian Quipu (Locke's Analysis)
• 8. The Peruvian Quipus (Nordenskiöld's Hypothesis)
• 9. Quipu 14-3866 (An Inca Astronomer's Notebook)
• 11. Statistical and Cultural Quipus
• Chapter Two: Magic Knots
• 1. Homeopathic and Contagious Magic
• 2. Wind and Rain
• 3. Sickness and Disease
• 4. Miscellaneous Cures
• 5. Knot Amulets
• 6. The Hercules Knot
• 7. the Slip Knot
• 8. Miscellaneous Amulets
• 9. Maleficium
• 10. Love Knots
• 11. Religious Knots
• Chapter Three: Practical Knots
• 1. The Age of String
• 2. The Oldest Knots
• 3. A Physician Names Haraklas
• 4. Proprietary Exclusiveness
• 5. The End of an Era
• Notes
• Appendices: Oribasius De Laqueis
• Index

About the Author

Cyrus Lawrence Day (1900–1968) was professor emeritus of English at the University of Delaware. His publications include The Songs of John Dryden and The Art of Knotting and Splicing.