Peritius, month of, festival of “the awakening of Hercules” in the, v. 111
Perkunas or Perkuns, the Lithuanian god of thunder and lightning, ii. 365 sqq.;
derivation of his name, ii. 367 n. 3;
his perpetual fire, xi. 91 n. 5
Permanence of simpler forms of religion, viii. 335;
of the belief in magic and witchcraft, in ghosts and demons, under the higher forms of religion, ix. 89 sq.
Permanent possession of human beings by deities, i. 386 sq.
Péronne, mugwort at Midsummer near, xi. 58
Perperia, appealed to for rain by the Greeks of Thessaly and Macedonia, i. 273
Perpetual holy fire in temples of dead kings, vi. 174