Spoons used in eating by tabooed persons, iii. 141, 148, 189

Sports, athletic, at harvest, vii. 76 sq.

See also [Contests], [Games]

Spottiswoode, in Berwickshire, harvest customs at, vii. 153 sq.

Sprachbrücken, in Hesse, the Harvest-goat at, vii. 283

Sprained leg, Scotch cure for, by means of nine knots in a black thread, iii. 304 sq.

Spree, the river, requires its human victim on Midsummer Day, xi. 26

Spreewald, the Wends of the, their wreaths at Midsummer, xi. 48

Sprenger, the inquisitor, his practice of shaving the heads of witches and wizards, xi. 158

Sprigs, green, placed on stumps of felled trees, ii. 37 sq.