vii. 122;

on custom of consuming the ashes of relations among the Brazilian Indians, viii. 157

Sovereignty, reluctance to accept the, on account of its burdens, iii. 17 _sqq._

Sovkou, ancient Egyptian deity, represented by a masker, ii. 133

Sow, the white, of Alba Longa, ii. 187 _n._ 4; corn-spirit as a, vii. 298 _sqq._; as scapegoat, ix. 33; the cropped black, at Hallowe’en, x. 236, 240

Sower, the Wicked, driven away on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 107, 118

Sowerby, James, on mouse-ear hawk-weed, xi. 57; on orpine, xi. 61 _n._ 4; on yellow hoary mullein, xi. 64; on the Golden Bough, xi. 284 _n._ 3; on mistletoe, xi. 316 _n._ 5

Sowers carry locks as charm to keep off birds, iii. 308; and ploughmen drenched with water as a rain-charm, v. 238 _sq._

Sowing, homoeopathic magic at, i. 136 _sqq._; curses for good luck at, i. 281; sexual intercourse before, ii. 98; periods of abstinence observed before, ii. 98, 105; tug-of-war before, ii. 100; continence at, ii. 105, 106; in Italy and Sicily, time of, ii. 311 _n._ 5; Prussian custom at, v. 238 _sq._; rites of, vi. 40 _sqq._; in Greece, time for, vii. 45, 50, 318; festival of Demeter at, vii. 46 _n._ 2; sacrifice to Demeter at, vii. 57; festival of the Kayans of Borneo at, vii. 93 _sqq._, 111; masquerade of the Kayans at, vii. 186 _sq._; time of, determined by observation of the sun, vii. 187; goat killed at, vii. 288; the corn-spirit as a pig at, vii. 300; cake called Christmas Boar eaten by farm-servants and cattle at time of barley sowing, vii. 303; at Magnesia in the Greek month Cronion, viii. 7, 8 _n._ 1; ceremonies at, among the Chams, viii. 57; offerings at, in the North-Western provinces of India, viii. 117; offerings at, among the Kachins of Burma, viii. 120 _sq._; customs observed by Saxons of Transylvania at, viii. 274 _sq._; prayer at, among the Khonds, ix. 138; expulsion of demons at, ix. 225; Saturn the god of, ix. 232, 346; dances at, ix. 234 _sqq._; in Italy, season of the spring, ix. 346; fast from flesh, eggs, and grease at, ix. 347 _n._ 4

——, goddesses of, personated by old women, ix. 238

Sowing and planting, time of, determined by the observation of the Pleiades, vii. 309, 313 _sqq._; regulated by the phases of the moon, vi. 133 _sqq._

—— and ploughing, ceremony of, in the rites of Osiris, vi. 87, 90, 96; rite of, at the Carnival, vii. 28

Sowing corn, Ovambo custom at, ii. 46

—— the fields, human sacrifices at, vii. 236, 238 _sq._, 240 _sq._

—— hemp seed, divination by, at Hallowe’en, x. 235

—— seed, to make children grow, vii. 11; done by women, vii. 113 _sqq._; done by children, vii. 115 _sq._

—— the winter corn, goat killed at, vii. 288

Sown fields, fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 316, 318, 321

Sozomenus, church historian, on sacred prostitution, v. 37

Spachendorf, in Silesia, “the Burying of Death,” effigy burnt at, iv. 250,