curses for good luck at, i. 281;
sexual intercourse before, ii. 98;
periods of abstinence observed before, ii. 98, 105;
tug-of-war before, ii. 100;
continence at, ii. 105, 106;
in Italy and Sicily, time of, ii. 311 n. 5;
Prussian custom at, v. 238 sq.;
rites of, vi. 40 sqq.;
in Greece, time for, vii. 45, 50, 318;
festival of Demeter at, vii. 46 n. 2;