Threshing, customs at, i. 134, 147 sqq., 203;
contests in, 218 sqq.;
corn-spirit killed at, 291 sq.
—— -cow, i. 291
—— -dog, i. 271
—— -floor, Demeter at the, i. 41 sq., 47;
of Triptolemus at Eleusis, 61, 72, 75;
sanctity of the, ii. [110] n. 4
—— in Greece, date of, i. 62
Throttling farmer's wife at threshing, pretence of, i. 150