ii. 161

St. Edmund’s Day in November, Lord of Misrule elected at Merton College, Oxford, on, ix. 332

St. Eloi, Bishop of Noyon, his denunciation of heathen practices, xi. 190

St. Estapin, festival of, on August the 6th, xi. 188

St. Eustorgius, church of, at Milan, ix. 331

St. Fillan’s well at Comrie, resorted to by women who wish to become mothers, ii. 161

St. Flannan, chapel of, in the Flannan Islands, iii. 393

St. Francis of Paola, the giver of rain, i. 300, 301 _n._

St. Gall, the Canton of, the Corn-goat at harvest in, vii. 283

St. Gens, his image used in rain-making, i. 307

St. George and the Dragon, ii. 163 _sq._, iv. 107; and the Parilia, ii. 324 _sqq._, v. 308, 309; patron saint of cattle, horses, and wolves, ii. 330, 332, 336, 337, 338; chapel of, ii. 337; represented by a living man on horseback, ii. 337; as a spirit of trees or vegetation, ii. 343 _sq._; as giver of offspring to women, ii. 344 _sqq._, v. 78, 79, 90; in relation to serpents, ii. 344, 344 _n._ 4; in Syria, ii. 346, v. 78; perhaps the modern equivalent of Tammuz or Adonis, ii. 346; Cappadocian saint and martyr, ii. 347; swinging on the festival of, iv. 283

St. George’s Day (23rd April), fertilization of barren women by fruit-trees on, ii. 56 _sq._, 344; Green George on, ii. 75, 76, 79; ceremony to fertilize the fields on, ii. 103; cattle crowned on, as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 126 _sq._, 339; effigy of a dragon carried at Ragusaon, ii. 164 _n._ 1; great popular festival of herdsmen and shepherds in Eastern Europe, ii. 330 _sqq._, x. 223 _n._ 2; the power of witches thought to be at its greatest height on, ii. 336; love charms on, ii. 345 _sq._; among the South Slavs, ix. 54; bells rung on, to make the grass grow, ix. 247

—— Eve, a time when witches steal milk from the cows, ii. 334 _sq._; snake’s tongue cut on, viii. 270; witches active on, ix. 158

St. Gervais, spring of, used in rain-making, i. 307

St. Guirec, in Brittany, his statue stuck with pins, ix. 70

St. Hippolytus, a resuscitation of the Greek Hippolytus, i. 21

St. Hitzibouzit, a Persian martyr, ix. 412 _n._ 2

St. Hubert blesses bullets with which to shoot witches, x. 315 _sq._

St. James, on faith and works, i. 223; on pure religion, i. 224; name of, bestowed by Peruvian Indians on one of twins, i. 266

St. James’s Day (July the 25th), the flower of chicory cut on, xi. 71

St. Jean, in the Jura, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 189

St. Jerome on the Celtic speech of the Galatians, ii. 126 _n._ 2, xi. 89 _n._ 2

St. Johann, in Salzburg, the _Perchten_ at, ix. 245

St. John blesses the flowers on Midsummer Eve, x. 171; his hair looked for in ashes of Midsummer fire, x. 182 _sq._, 190; fires of, in France, x. 183, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193; prayers to, at Midsummer, x. 210; claims human victims on St. John’s Day (Midsummer Day), xi. 27, 29; print of his head on St. John’s Eve, xi. 57; oil of, found on oak leaves at Midsummer, xi. 83, 293

—— the Baptist, bathing on his day, i. 277; his Midsummer festival, ii. 273; his chapel at Athens, ix. 53; associated by the Catholic Church with Midsummer Day, x. 160, 181

—— (the Evangelist), festival of, ix. 334

——, gossips of, in Sicily, v. 145, 251

——, the Knights of, x. 194; Grand Master of the Order of, x. 211

——, Sweethearts of, in Sardinia, ii. 92, v. 244 _sq._, 251

St. John, Spenser, on reasons for head-hunting in Sarawak, v. 296

St. John’s blood found on St. John’s wort and other plants at Midsummer,