Midsummer fires at, x. 199 sq.

Peoples said to be ignorant of the art of kindling fire, ii. 253 sqq.

—— of the Aryan stock, annual festivals of the dead among the, vi. 67 sqq.

Peperuga, girl dressed in greenery at rain-making ceremony in Bulgaria, i. 274

Pepi the First, king of Egypt, vi. 5;

his pyramid, vi. 4 n. 1

Pepper rubbed into bodies of sufferers as a cure or exorcism, iii. 106;

rubbed into eyes of strangers, iii. 114

—— and salt, abstinence from, during fasts, i. 266, ii. 98

Pepys, Samuel, on Charles II. touching for scrofula, i. 369;