refuse to taste blood, iii. 240;

preserve their nail-parings against the day of judgment, iii. 280;

their belief as to shooting stars, iv. 63, 66 sq.;

their custom on Shrove Tuesday, iv. 233, 252 sq.;

their celebration of St. John's Day, iv. 280;

their ceremony at the new moon, vi. 143;

their Christmas Boar, vii. 302 sq.;

their mode of transferring bad luck to trees, ix. 54;

their expulsion of the devil, ix. 173;

Midsummer fires among the, x. 179 sq.