xi. 56, 57

—— College, Oxford, the Christmas candle at, x. 255

—— Day (Midsummer Day), barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 22; swinging on, iv. 157, 280; or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), custom of bathing on, v. 246 _sqq._; the Rush-cutter supposed to mow down the crops on, vii. 23; in Abyssinia, ix. 133; Midsummer fires on, x. 167 _sqq._, 171 _sqq._, 178, 179; fire kindled by friction of wood on, x. 281; fern-seed blooms on, xi. 287. _See also_ Midsummer

St. John’s Eve (Midsummer Eve), in Sweden, ii. 65; Russian ceremony on, iv. 262; in Malta, x. 210 _sq._; wonderful herbs gathered on, xi. 45 _sqq._; sick children passed through cleft trees on, xi. 171

—— fires among the South Slavs, x. 178; among the Esthonians, x. 180. _See also_ Midsummer fires

—— flower at Midsummer, xi. 50; gathered on St. John’s Eve (Midsummer Eve), xi. 57 _sq._

—— girdle, mugwort, xi. 59

—— herbs gathered at Midsummer, xi. 46 _sq._, 49; a protection against evil spirits, xi. 49

—— Midsummer festival in Sardinia, v. 244 _sq._

—— Night (Midsummer Eve), precautions against witches on, xi. 20 _n._

—— root (_Johanniswurzel_), the male fern, xi. 66

—— wort (_Hypericum perforatum_), gathered at Midsummer, v. 252 _sq._; a protection against witchcraft, ix. 160; garlands of, at Midsummer, x. 169 _n._ 3, 196; gathered on St. John’s Day or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), xi. 49, 54 _sqq._; a protection against thunder, witches, and evil spirits, xi. 54, 55, 74; thrown into the Midsummer bonfires, xi. 55

St. Joseph ill-treated in drought in Sicily, i. 300; feast of, ix. 297

St. Juan Capistrano, in California, ordeal of nettles and ants among the Indians of, x. 64. _See_ San Juan Capistrano

St. Julien, church of, at Ath, xi. 36

St. Just, in Cornwall, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 200

St. Kilda, not to be named in the Flannan Islands, iii. 393; All Saints’ Day in, vi. 80; beating man clad in a cow’s hide in, viii. 322, 323

St. Lawrence, the fire of, children thought to suffer from, if they touch young wrens in the nest, viii. 318; family of, their lives bound up with an old tree at Howth Castle, xi. 166

St. Leonard, patron of cattle, horses, and pigs, i. 7 _sq._; blesses women with offspring, i. 8; patron of prisoners, i. 8; his shrines asylums, i. 8

Saint-Lô, the burning of Shrove Tuesday at, iv. 228 _sq._

St. Louis, gift of healing by touch said to be derived by French kings from, i. 370

St. Luke, the festival of, on October 18th, souls of the dead thought to return on that day, vi. 55

Saintes-Maries, Midsummer custom at, v. 248, x. 194

St. Martin invoked in Switzerland to disperse a mist, x. 280

S. Martinus Dumiensis, on the date of the Crucifixion in Gaul, v. 307 _n._

St. Mary, wells of, at Whitekirk and in the Isle of May, resorted to by women who wish to become mothers, ii. 161; _in Araceli_, the church of, at Rome, ii. 184

—— at Lübeck, church of, x. 100

——, Isle of, custom of whalers in the, viii. 235

St. Matthew’s Day (August 21st), festival of weasels on, viii. 275

St. Maughold, gives the veil to St. Bridget, ii. 95

St. Michael ill-treated in drought, i. 300

—— in Alaska, annual festival of the dead among the Esquimaux at, vi. 51; bladder-festival of the Esquimaux at, viii. 249

St. Michael’s cake, made at Michaelmas in the Hebrides, x. 149, 154 _n._ 3

St. Neot’s, in Huntingdonshire, ii. 71 _n._ 1

St. Nicholas, patch of oats left at harvest for, vii. 233

St. Nicholas’s Day (the 6th of December), the election of the Boy Bishop on, ix. 337, 338

St. Ninian, sacred trees near a chapel of, ii. 44

St. Nonnosius, relics of, in the cathedral of Freising, Bavaria, xi. 188 _sq._

St. Olaf’s Day (July 29th), lamb sacrificed by the Karels on, viii. 258 _n._ 2

St. Ouen, his church at Rouen, ii. 165; early lives of, ii. 168

St. Patrick, canon attributed to, i. 367

—— and the Beltane fires, x. 157 _sq._

St. Patrick’s Chair, pilgrimage to, on Midsummer Eve, x. 205

—— Mount, near Downpatrick, x. 205

St. Paul, the Paulicians appeal to the authority of, i. 407; on immortality, vii. 91

St. Paul’s, London, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337

St. Peter, prayed to for rain, his image dipped in water, i. 307 _sq._

—— and St. Paul, celebration of their day in London, x. 196

St. Peter’s, Canterbury, the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337

—— at Rome, new fire at Easter in, x. 125

—— Day (29th June), poplar burnt on, ii. 141; the “Funeral of Kostroma” in Russia on, iv. 262; bonfires in Belgium on, x. 194 _sq._; bonfires at Eton on, x. 197; fires in Scotland on, x. 207

St. Peter’s Day (22nd February), ashes exchanged as presents on, vii. 300; expulsion of butterflies in Westphalia on, ix. 159 _n._ 1

—— Eve, bonfires on, x. 195, 198, 199 _sq._; Midsummer fires in Ireland on, x. 202; gathering herbs on, xi. 45 _n._ 1

St. Pierre d’Entremont, in Normandy, game of ball on Shrove Tuesday at,