Midsummer fires in, x. 188;
St. John's herb gathered on Midsummer Eve in, xi. 46;
the Chêne-Doré in, xi. 287 n. 1
—— and Beauce, treatment of the navel-string in, i. 198.
See [Beauce]
Perchta, Frau, a mythical old woman in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, ix. 240 sq.
Perchta's Day, Twelfth Night or the Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 240, 242, 244
Perchten, maskers in Salzburg and the Tyrol, ix. 240, 242 sqq.
Percival, R., on the fear of demons in Ceylon, ix. 94 sq.
Perdoytus, the Lithuanian wind-god (reported), i. 326 n. 5