as a festal rite in modern Greece, Spain, and Italy, iv. 283 sq.;
for good crops, vii. 101, 103, 107
Swiss superstition as to knots in shrouds, iii. 310
Switzerland, the lake-dwellings of, ii. 353;
the Corn-goat, Oats-goat, and Rye-goat at harvest in, vii. 283;
the Wheat-cow, Corn-cow, Oats-cow, Corn-bull, etc., at harvest in, vii. 289, 291;
omens from the cry of the quail in, vii. 295;
weather forecasts in, ix. 323;
Lenten fires in, x. 118 sq.;
new fire kindled by friction of wood in, x. 169 sq.;