Pregnant women, their superstitions about shadows, [82] sq.

Premature birth, [213]. See Miscarriage

Pricking patient with needles to expel demons of disease, [106]

Priests to be shaved with bronze, [226];

their hair unshorn, [259], [260];

foods tabooed to, [291]

Prisoners shaved, [273];

released at festivals, [316]

Propitiation of the souls of the slain, [166];

of spirits of slain animals, [190], [204] sq.;