Proculus, Julius, bids the Romans worship Romulus as a god, ii. 182
Proerosia, “Before the Ploughing,” a Greek festival of Demeter, vii. 50 sqq., 60, 108
Profligacy at rites designed to promote the fertility of trees and plants, ii. 97, 104;
of human sexes supposed to quicken the earth, v. 48;
at Holi festival in India, xi. 2
Progress, the magician's, i. 214 sqq.;
intellectual, dependent on economic progress, i. 218;
industrial and political, i. 421
Prohibited degrees of kinship, the system of, perhaps based historically on superstition, ii. 117
Promathion's History of Italy, ii. 196, 197