good and evil, personated by children, [139];

Festival of Departed, [154]

Spitting as a mode of transferring evil, [3], [10], [11];

as a mode of transferring disease, [187];

at ceremony for expulsion of evils, [208]

Spittle as a protection against demons, [118]

Spring, rites to ensure the revival of life in, [400]

Squills used to beat human scapegoats, etc., [255] sq.

Star, the Morning, personated by a man, [238];

of Bethlehem, [330]