general clearance of evils at the beginning or end of, ix. 224;
dances performed only in, ix. 376;
ceremony of the expulsion of, ix. 404 sq.;
effigies of, destroyed, ix. 408 sq.
——, Queen of, in the Isle of Man, iv. 258
—— and Summer, dramatic battle of, iv. 254 sqq.
Winter festival of Dionysus, vii. 16 sq.
—— sleep of the god, vi. 41
—— solstice, reckoned the Nativity of the Sun, v. 303, x. 246;
Egyptian ceremony at the, vi. 50;