vi. 272;

perform a ceremony for the fertility of the fields, x. 340

Euphemisms employed for certain animals, iii. 397 _sqq._; for smallpox, iii. 400, 410, 411, 416

_Euphorbia antiquorum_, cactus, hung at door of house where there is a lying-in woman, iii. 155

—— _lathyris_, caper-spurge, sometimes identified with the mythical springwort, xi. 69

Euphorbus the Trojan, the soul of Pythagoras in, viii. 300

Euphorion of Chalcis, Greek writer, on Roman indifference to death, iv. 143, 144

Euripides, the _Hippolytus_ of, i. 25; on Artemis as a midwife, i. 37; on the dragon at Delphi, iv. 79; on the death of Pentheus, vi. 98 _n._ 5; his account of Aegisthus pelting the tomb of Agamemnon with stones, ix. 19; his play on Meleager, xi. 103 _n._ 2

Europa, a personification of the moon conceived as a cow, ii. 88; and Zeus, iv. 73; her wanderings, iv. 89

Europe, dancing or leaping high as a homoeopathic charm to make crops grow high in, i. 137; the Hand of Glory in, i. 148 _sq._; belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167; treatment of the navel-string and afterbirth in, i. 198 _sqq._; contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210 _sq._; confusion of magic and religion in modern, i. 231-233; the belief in magic in modern, i. 235 _sq._; forests of ancient, ii. 7 _sq._; the May-tree or May-pole as an instrument of fertility in, ii. 51 _sq._; relics of tree-worship in modern, ii. 59 _sqq._; Midsummer festival in, ii. 272 _sq._; diffusion of the oak in, ii. 349 _sqq._; peat-bogs of, ii. 350 _sqq._; the lake-dwellings of, ii. 352 _sq._; fear of having one’s likeness taken in, iii. 100; spitting as a charm in, iii. 279; belief as to consummation of marriage being impeded by knots and locks in, iii. 299; beliefs as to shooting stars in, iv. 66 _sqq._; fear of death in, iv. 135 _sq._, 146; custom of showing money to the new moon in, vi. 148 _sq._; barley and wheat cultivated in prehistoric, vii. 79; transference of evil in, ix. 47 _sqq._; faith in magic and witchcraft in Christian, ix. 89; annual expulsion of demons and witches in, ix. 155 _sqq._; annual expulsion of evils in, ix. 207 _sq._; folk-custom of “carrying out Death” in, ix. 227 _sq._; masquerades in modern, ix. 251 _sq._; superstitions as to menstruous women in, x. 96 _sq._; the fire-festivals of, x. 106 _sqq._; great dread of witchcraft in, xi. 342; birth-trees in, xi. 165; belief in, that strength of witches and wizards is in their hair, xi. 158

Europe, Eastern, great popular festival of herdsmen and shepherds on St. George’s Day in, ii. 330

——, Eastern and Central, custom of beating people and cattle in spring in,