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ment of the corn-spirit, ii. 41-43; Osiris and the, ii. 59-61
Ozieri, Gardens of Adonis at, i. 290
Pacific, human gods in the, i. 38, 39
Pádams of Assam, superstition concerning lost children by the, i. 63
Palermo, “sawing the old woman” in, i. 261
Palm-tree, the Dyaks and the, ii. 329
—— Sunday custom, ii. 216
Pan, representation of, ii. 34, 35; the Lord of the Wood, ii. 35
Panes, festival of the, ii. 90, 91
Papuans, foods eaten by the, ii. 87; belief in a child’s life being bound up with that of a tree, ii. 329
Paris, procession of mock giant in, ii. 281
Parthian monarchs worshipped as deities, i. 49
Patagonians, burning of loose hair by the, i. 205
Pawnees, human sacrifices by the, at sowing, i. 381, 382
Payaguas, method of fighting the wind by the, i. 28
Pear-tree, the protector of cattle, i. 73
Pelew Islanders, god of the, i. 39, 40; custom at tree-felling by the, i. 62, 63; ceremony on the killing of a man by the, i. 178
Pembrokeshire, Twelfth Day custom in, ii. 143
Pepper Coast, high priest held responsible for the general welfare, i. 47
Permanent incarnation, i. 37-42
Persian kings not seen eating, i. 162
Peru, rain-charm in, i. 17; charm for staying the sun in, i. 24; preservation of the representative corn-spirit by the ancient Peruvians, i. 350, 351; expulsion of devils in, ii. 203; self-beating in, ii. 216. See also under Incas.
Philippine Islands, belief in the souls of trees in the, i. 62 ; cannibalism in the, ii. 88
Philosophy, primitive, defect of, i. 210-212; rules of life of sacred men are the outcome of, ib.
Phoenician custom at vintage, i. 365; Linus song, i. 398, 399
Phrygia, mock human sacrifices in, i. 300; reapers’ song in, i. 365, 366
Piedmont, midsummer peasant custom in, i. 288
Pig, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 26-31; sacred, ii. 50-57; Osiris as a, ii. 52-60
Pigs, Demeter and Proserpine as, ii. 44-49; Attis and Adonis as, ii. 49, 50
Pilsen, Whitsuntide custom near, i. 92
Pine-tree sacred to Dionysus, i. 321
Pinsk, Whit Monday customs by Russian girls in, i. 87, 88
Plas, Whitsuntide custom in the neighbourhood of, i. 92
Po, excavations in the valley of the, i. 57
Poachers and the fir-cones, ii. 288
Point Barrow, hunting the evil spirit by the Eskimo of, ii. 164, 165
Poitou, midsummer fire festival in, ii. 261
Poland, ceremony of carrying out Death in, i. 261; harvest custom in, i. 339, 340, 342, 343; Christmas custom in, ii. 6, 7
Polynesians, superstition held by the, concerning the head, i. 189, 190; and sacred contagion, ii. 55
Pomerania, cut hair buried in, i. 205; reaping custom in, i. 205
Pomos of California, expulsions of devils by the, ii. 183
Pongol festival, ii. 73
Pont à Mousson, harvest ceremony at, ii. 21
Poplar, burning of a, on St. Peter’s Day, i. 101
Portrait, the soul in the, i. 148, 149
Portraits, life in, i. 148
Potato-dog, ii. 4
—— wolf, ii. 2, 5
Potatoes, custom at the digging of new, in Sutherlandshire, ii. 71
Potniae, rites of Dionysus at, i. 329
Pouilly, harvest ceremony at, ii. 20, 21, 47
Preacher to the fish, ii. 119, 120
Pregnancy, i. 239
Priestly kings, i. 7, 8
Priests, Roman and Sabine, not shaved with iron razors, i. 172
Primitive man and the supernatural, i. 6-30
—— philosophy, rules of life are the outcome of, i. 208-210
Prophesying, drinking blood before, i. 34, 35
Propitiation of the fish, ii. 118, 119
Proserpine and the pig, ii. 44-49
Prussia, reverence for the oak in, i. 58; high trees worshipped by the ancient Prussians, i. 64; custom after a funeral by the old Prussians, i. 177; self-immolation of the supreme ruler of the old Prussians, i. 223; ceremony at spring ploughing in, i. 286; corn drenching in, i. 287; gardens of
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