across fiery furnaces, xi. 4 sqq.;
of giants (effigies) at popular festivals in Europe, xi. 33 sqq.
—— and dances in honour of the dead, viii. 111
Proclus on Dionysus, vii. 13
Procopius, on the custom of putting the sick and old to death among the Heruli, iv. 14;
on the god of lightning of the Slavs, ii. 365;
on the annual disappearance of the sun for forty days in Thule, ix. 125 n. 1
Procreation, savage ignorance of the causes of, v. 106 sq.
Procreative virtue attributed to fire, ii. 233
Procris, her incest with her father Erechtheus, v. 44