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 (Nordenskioeld'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.