ix. 183

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

St. Rochus’s Day, need-fire kindled on, x. 282

St. Romain and the dragon of Rouen, ii. 164 _sqq._; the shrine (_fierte_) of, ii. 167, 168, 170 _n._ 1, ix. 216

St. Sécaire, Mass of, i. 232 _sq._

St. Simon and St. Jude’s Day (October 28th), the dead feasted among the Letts on, vi. 74

St. Stephen, church of, at Beauvais, Festival of Fools in the, ix. 336

St. Stephen’s Day (December 26th), the hunting and burial of the wren on, viii. 319 _sq._; custom of beating young women on, ix. 270; Lord of Misrule appointed in the Inner Temple on, ix. 333; Festival of Fools on, ix. 334

St. Sylvester’s Day (New Year’s Eve), superstition as to shadows on, iii. 88; precautions against witches on, ix. 164 _sq._

—— Eve, evil spirits driven out of the houses at Trieste on, ix. 165

St. Tecla, the falling sickness cured in her church at Llandegla in Wales, ix. 52

St. Thomas’s Day (21st December), the Twelve Days counted from, in some parts of Bavaria, ix. 327; election of the Boy Bishop on, ix. 337 _n._ 1; bonfires on, x. 266; witches dreaded on, xi. 73

—— Eve, witches active on, ix. 160

—— Mount, near Madras, the fire-walk at, xi. 8 _n._ 1

St. Tredwels, chapel of, in one of the Orkney Islands, heap of stones to which each comer adds at, ix. 29

Saint-Valery in Picardy, torches carried through the fields on the first Sunday in Lent at, x. 113

St. Vitus, festival of, omens drawn from barley and wheat sown a few days before the, v. 252

St. Vitus’s dance, supposed to be caused by demoniac possession or the shadow of an enemy, iii. 83; mistletoe a cure for, xi. 84

St. Vitus’s Day, “fire of heaven” kindled on, x. 335

St. Wolfgang, Falkenstein chapel of, cleft rock through which pilgrims creep near, xi. 189

Saintonge, Feast of All Souls in, vi. 69; the Yule log in, x. 251 _n._ 1; wonderful herbs gathered on St. John’s Eve in, xi. 45; St. John’s wort in, xi. 55; vervain gathered at Midsummer in, xi. 62 _n._ 4; four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63

—— and Aunis, burning the Carnival in, iv. 230; Midsummer fires in, x. 192

Saints, violence done to images of saints in Sicily to procure rain, i. 300; images of saints dipped in water as a rain-charm, i. 307 _sq._; as the givers of children to women, v. 78 _sq._, 91, 109; cairns near shrines of Mohammedan, ix. 21, 22

Sais, in Egypt, the festival of Osiris at, vi. 49 _sqq._; the grave of Osiris at, vi. 50

Sakai, the, of the Malay Peninsula, power of medicine-men among, i. 360; difference of dialect between husbands and wives among the, iii. 348

Sakalavas (Sakkalavas) of Madagascar, the worshipful sovereign of the, i. 397 _sq._; their chiefs not allowed to sail the sea or cross rivers, iii. 10; taboos observed by their chiefs, iii. 10 _sq._; taboo on mentioning personal names among the, iii. 327; customs as to names of dead kings among the, iii. 379 _sq._; sanctity of relics of dead kings among the, iv. 202; their worship of a black bull, viii. 40 _n._

Sakarang Dyaks of Borneo, their euphemisms for smallpox, iii. 416

Sakkalava. _See_ Sakalavas

Sakkara, in Egypt, pyramids at, vi. 4

Sakvarī song, ancient Indian hymn, supposed to embody the might of the thunderbolt, i. 269 _sq._

_Sâl_ tree, festival of the flower of the, among the Oraons, ii. 76 _sq._, 148, v. 47

—— trees, sacred groves of, among the Khonds, ii. 41; evil spirits of, among the Parahiya of Mirzapur, ii. 42

Salacia and Neptune, vi. 231, 233

_Salagrama_, fossil ammonite, an embodiment of Vishnu, ii. 26, 27 _n._ 2; married to the tulasi plant, ii. 26 _sq._

Salamis in Cyprus, human sacrifices at, iv. 166 _n._ 1, v. 145; dynasty of Teucrids at, v. 145

Saldern, near Wolfenbuttel, the Corn-maiden at, at the end of reaping the rye at, vii. 150

Sale, nominal, of children, to deceive dangerous spirits, vii. 8

Salee, in Morocco, Midsummer fires at, x. 214, 216

Salem, Melchizedek, king of, v. 17

Saleyer, island off Celebes, certain words tabooed to sailors of, iii. 413 _sq._

Salian Franks, custom as to the re-marriage of a widow among the, ii. 285

Salic law, re-marriage of widow under, ii. 285

Saligné, Commune de, Canton de Poiret, pretence of threshing the farmer’s wife in, vii. 149 _sq._

Salih, a prophet, annual festival of Bedouins at his grave in the Sinaitic Peninsula, iv. 97

Salii, the hymns of the, ii. 383 _n._ 4; the dancing priests of Mars, ix. 231 _sqq._; rule as to their election, vi. 244

Salisbury, May garlands at, ii. 62; the Boy Bishop at, ix. 337, 338; Midsummer giants at, xi. 37 _sq._

Salish or Flathead Indians, artificial deformation of the head among the,