South Slavs, devices of women to obtain offspring, i. 96;
marriage customs of, ii. [246]
Sowers and ploughmen drenched with water as a rain-charm, i. 238 sq.
Sowing, Prussian custom at, i. 238 sq.;
rites of, ii. [40] sqq.
—— and ploughing, ceremony of, in the rites of Osiris, ii. [87], [90], [96];
and planting, regulated by the phases of the moon, [133] sqq.
Sozomenus, church historian, on sacred prostitution, i. 37
Spain, bathing on St. John's Eve in, i. 248
Sparta destroyed by an earthquake, i. 196 n. 4