vii. 120;

their customs as to Mother of Maize, the Quinoa-mother, the Coca-mother, and the Potato-mother, vii. 171 _sqq._

Pescara River, in the Abruzzi, washing in the, on St. John’s Day, v. 246

Pescina, in the Abruzzi, Midsummer custom at, v. 246

Pessinus, priestly kings at, i. 47; image of Cybele at, v. 35 _n._ 3; priests called Attis at, v. 140; local legend of Attis at, v. 264; image of the Mother of the Gods at, v. 265; people of, abstain from swine, v. 265; high-priest of Cybele at, v. 285; high-priest perhaps slain in the character of Attis at, vii. 255

Pessnitz, in the district of Dresden, thresher of last corn called the Bull at, vii. 291

Peter of Dusburg, his _Chronicle of Prussia_, ii. 366 _n._ 2

Petrarch at Cologne on St. John’s Eve, v. 247 _sq._

Petrie, Professor W. M. Flinders, on the date of the corn-reaping in Egypt and Palestine, v. 231 _n._ 3; on the Sed festival, vi. 151 _n._ 3, 152 _n._ 3, 154 _sq._; on the marriage of brothers with sisters in Egypt, vi. 216 _n._ 1

Petrified cascades of Hierapolis, v. 207

Petroff, Ivan, on a custom of the Koniags of Alaska, vi. 106

Petronius on prayers to Jupiter for rain, ii. 362; as to the soul in the nose, iii. 33 _n._ 3; on human scapegoats at Marseilles, ix. 253 _n._ 2; his story of the were-wolf, x. 313 _sq._

Pett, Grace, a Suffolk witch, x. 304

Petworth, in Sussex, cleft ash-trees used for the cure of rupture at, xi. 170

_Peucedanum leiocarpum_, hog’s wort, burnt as an offering to salmon, viii. 254

Pfeiffer, Madame, her reception among the Battas, iii. 104

_Pfingstl_, a Whitsuntide mummer, iv. 206 _sq._, 211

Phaedra and Hippolytus, i. 19, 25

Phalaris, the brazen bull of, iv. 75

Phalgun, an Indian month, equivalent to February, ii. 51, xi. 2

Phamenoth, an Egyptian month, vi. 49 _n._ 1, 130

Phaophi, an Egyptian month, vi. 49 _n._ 1, 94

Pharmacus, mythical personage, said to have been stoned to death, ix. 254 _n._ 1

Pharnace, daughter of Megassares, v. 41

Phatrabot, a Cambodian month, vi. 61

Phaya Phollathep, “Lord of the Heavenly Hosts,” temporary king in Siam,