women visited by a serpent in dreams in a sanctuary of Aesculapius, v. 80;
revelations given to sick people by Pluto and Persephone in, v. 205;
as causes of attempted transformation of men into women, vi. 255 sqq.;
as a source of belief in immortality, viii. 260 sq.;
and their fulfilment in time of sickness, ix. 121;
festival of, among the Iroquois, ix. 127;
oracular, x. 238, 242;
of love on Midsummer Eve, xi. 52, 54;
prophetic, on the bloom of the oak, xi. 292;
prophetic, on mistletoe, xi. 293