Sown fields, fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 316, 318, 321
Sozomenus, church historian, on sacred prostitution, v. 37
Spachendorf, in Silesia, “the Burying of Death,” effigy burnt at, iv. 250, x. 119
Spades and hoes, human victim killed with, vii. 239, 251
Spae-wives and Gestr, Icelandic story of the, xi. 125 sq.
Spain, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, i. 167;
acorns used as food in, ii. 355, 356;
“Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 240, 242;
seven-legged effigies of Lent in, iv. 244;
custom of swinging at Christmas in, iv. 284;