xi. 63;

at cutting a branch of hazel to form a divining-rod by night on Midsummer Eve, xi. 67; in passing a ruptured or rickety child through a cleft tree, xi. 171; in creeping through a hoop of willow as a cure, xi. 184

Silenuses, minor deities associated with Dionysus, viii. 1 _sq._

Silesia, custom as to children’s cast teeth in, i. 181; precautions against witches on May Day in, ii. 54 _sq._; Whitsuntide King in, ii. 84; contest for the kingship at Whitsuntide in, ii. 89 _sq._; St. George’s Day in, ii. 336 _sq._; Whitsuntide mummers in, iv. 207 _n._ 1; “Carrying out Death” in, iv. 236 _sq._, 239 _sq._, 250 _sq._, 264 _sq._,