x. 301

Portugal, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167 _sq._

Poseideon, an Attic month, vii. 62

Poseidon, sanctuary of, at Troezen, i. 27; mated with Artemis, i. 36; bull sacrificed to, i. 46; represented as father of Demetrius Poliorcetes, i. 391; identified with Erechtheus, iv. 87; the Establisher or Securer, v. 195 _sq._; the earthquake god, v. 195, 202 _sq._; his intrigue with Demeter, v. 280, viii. 21; first-fruits sacrificed to, viii. 133; cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351; priest of, uses a white umbrella, x. 20 _n._ 1; makes Pterelaus immortal, xi. 103

Posidonius, ancient Greek traveller in Gaul, on indifference of Celts to death, iv. 142; on human sacrifices among the Celts, xi. 32

Poso, a district of Central Celebes, inspired priestesses in, i. 379 _sq._; ears of rice fed like children in, ii. 29; belief as to tree-demons in, ii. 35; ceremony performed by farmer’s wife in, when the rice crop is not thriving, ii. 104; stranger taken for a spirit in, vii. 236; jawbones of deer and wild pigs propitiated by hunters in, viii. 244 _sq._; custom at the working of iron in, xi. 154

——, the Alfoors of, offer puppets to demons, iii. 62; will not pronounce their own names, iii. 332; may not pronounce the names of their fathers, mothers, grandparents, and parents-in-law, iii. 340; forbidden to use ordinary language in harvest-field, iii. 411; ask riddles while watching the crops, vii. 194; think that every man has three souls, xi. 222

Possession by the spirits of dead kings or chiefs, iv. 25 _sq._, vi. 192 _sq._; of priest or priestess by a divine spirit, v. 66, 68 _sq._, 72 _sqq._; by an evil spirit, cured by passing through a red-hot chain, xi. 186

Posterli, annual expulsion of, at Entlebuch in Switzerland, ix. 214

Pot in ashes, imprint of, effaced from superstitious motives, i. 214

Potala Hill at Lhasa, ix. 197

——, palace of the Dalai Lama at Lhasa, i. 412 _n._ 1

Potato-dog, said to be killed at end of digging the potatoes, vii. 272 _sq._

—— -mother, among the Indians of Peru, vii. 172, 173 _n._

—— -wolf, said to be caught in the last potatoes, vii. 271; name given to woman who gathers the last potatoes, vii. 274

Potatoes, magical stones for the increase of, i. 162; fertilized by a fairy banner, i. 368; customs at eating new, viii. 50, 51

Potawatomi Indians, their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 218; their women secluded at menstruation, x. 89

_Potlatch_, distribution of property, among the Carrier Indians, xi. 274

Potniae in Boeotia, goat substituted for child as victim in rites of Dionysus at, iv. 166 _n._ 1, vii. 24; priest of Dionysus killed at, vi. 99 _n._ 1

Potrimpo, old Prussian god, his priest bound to sleep on bare earth for three nights before sacrificing, ii. 248

Pots of basil on St. John’s Day in Sicily, v. 245

—— used by girls at puberty broken, x. 61, 69. _See also_ Vessels

Potter in Southern India, custom observed by a, v. 191 _n._ 2

Potters in Uganda bake their pots when the moon is waxing, vi. 135

Pottery, primitive, employed in Roman ritual, ii. 202 _sqq._; superstitions as to the making of, among the Yuracares of Bolivia and the Ba-Ronga of South Africa, ii. 204 _sq._

Pouilly, near Dijon, ox killed on harvest-field at, vii. 290

Poverty, annual expulsion of, ix. 144 _sq._

Powder, magic, rubbed into wounds for purpose of inoculation, viii. 159

Powers, Stephen, on the secrecy of personal names among the Californian Indians, iii. 326; on the expulsion of devils among the Pomos of California, ix. 170 _sq._

Powers, extraordinary, ascribed to first-born children, x. 295

Powhatan, an assumed Indian name, iii. 318

Pozega district of Slavonia, need-fire in, x. 282

Prabat, in Siam, Footprint of Buddha at, iii. 275

Practical man, the plain, i. 243

Praeneste, Fortuna Primigenia, goddess of, vi. 234; founded by Caeculus, ii. 197, vi. 235

Praetorius, Matthaeus, on the old Lithuanian god Pergrubius, ii. 347 _n._ 1; his work on old Lithuanian customs, viii. 50 _n._ 1

Praetors, the consuls at first called, ii. 291 _n._ 1

Prague, pieces of the May-tree burned in the district of, ii. 71; the Feast of All Souls in, vi. 73

Prajapati, the creator, his mystic sacrifice in the daily ritual of the Brahmans, ix. 411

_Pramantha_, the upper part of the Brahman fire-drill, ii. 249

Prättigau in Switzerland, Lenten fire-customat, x. 119

Pratz, Le Page du, on the festival of new corn among the Natchez Indians, viii. 77 _sqq._

Prauss, in Silesia, race of girls at harvest at, vii. 76

Prayer to the _tulasi_ plant, ii. 26; the Roman shepherd’s, ii. 327; to Pergrubius, ii. 347; the materialization of, ix. 22 _n._ 2; at sowing, ix. 138

Prayer, the Place of, viii. 113

—— and spell, vii. 105

Prayers to the sun, i. 72, 312; for rain to ancestors, i. 285, 286, 287, 346; for rain to skulls of racoons, i. 288; for rain to dragon, i. 291 _sq._; to king’s ancestors, i. 352; to sunflower roots, ii. 13; for rain to the spirit who controls the rain, ii. 46; to Zeus for rain, ii. 359; to Jupiter for rain, ii. 362; to Thunder, ii. 367 _sq._; to an oak, ii. 372; for rain to Nyakang, iv. 20; to dead ancestors, vi. 175 _sq._, 178 _sq._, 183 _sq._; to dead kings, vi. 192; for rain at Eleusis, vii. 69; to the spirits of the dead, viii. 112, 113, 124 _sq._; to dead animals, viii. 184, 197, 224, 225, 226, 235, 236, 243, 253, 293; to crocodile goddess, viii. 212; to shark-idol, viii. 292; at cairns or heaps of sticks or leaves, ix. 26, 28, 29 _sq._; of adolescent girls to the Dawn of Day, x. 50 _sq._, 53, 98 _n._ 1; to the Rain-makers up aloft, x. 133; to ancestral spirits, xi. 243

Preachers to fish, viii. 250 _sq._

Precautions against witches on May Day, ii. 52 _sqq._, ix. 267; against witches on St. George’s Day, ii. 354 _sqq._; against witches on Walpurgis Night (Eve of May Day), ix. 158 _sqq._; against witches during the Twelve Days, ix. 164 _sq._; against witches on Midsummer Eve, xi. 73 _sqq._

Precious stones, homoeopathic magic of, i. 164 _sq._

Pre-existence of the human soul, belief in the, i. 104

Preference for a violent death, iv. 9 _sqq._

Pregnancy, ceremony in seventh month of, i. 72 _sq._; husband’s hair kept unshorn during wife’s, iii. 261; conduct of husband during wife’s, iii. 294, 295; superstitions as to knots during wife’s, iii. 294 _sq._; funeral rites performed for a father in the fifth month of his wife’s,