Lenten fire-customs in, x. 113;
Midsummer fires in, x. 187
Piceni, guided by a woodpecker (picus), iv. 106 n. 4;
traced their origin to a “sacred spring,” iv. 186
Picts, female descent of kingship among the, ii. 280 sq., 286
Pictures, supposed danger of, iii. 96 sqq.
Pidhireanes, a Ruthenian people, custom as to knots on grave-clothes among the, iii. 310
Piedmont, effigy of Carnival burnt on Shrove Tuesday in, iv. 224 n. 1;
belief as to the “oil of St. John” on St. John's morning in, xi. 82 sq.
Piers, Sir Henry, as to green bushes on the Eve of May Day, ii. 59;