Pots used by girls at puberty broken, i. 61, 69

Powers, extraordinary, ascribed to first-born children, i. 295

Požega district of Slavonia, need-fire in, i. 282

Prättigau in Switzerland, Lenten fire-custom at, i. 119

Prayers of adolescent girls to the Dawn of Day, i. 50 sq., 53, 98 n. 1;

for rain, 133

Pretence of throwing a man into fire, i. 148, 186, ii. [25]

Priapus, image of, at need-fire, i. 286

Priest of Aricia and the Golden Bough, i. 1;

of Earth, taboos observed by the, 4;