and shorn hair, superstition as to, iii. 270;
not to be called by their proper names, iii. 397, 399, 415;
thought to understand human speech, iii. 399;
eaten by the Jews as a religious rite, viii. 24;
their ravages on the crops, viii. 33, 282;
the genius of, viii. 243;
superstitious precautions taken by farmers against, viii. 276 sqq., 281;
superstition as to white, viii. 279, 283;
white, under the altar of Apollo, viii. 283.
See also [Mouse]