Beans in ceremony performed by parents of twins in Peru, i. 266, ii. 102 n. 1;

not to be touched or named by the Flamen Dialis, ii. 248, iii. 13 sq.;

in magical rite, vii. 9 sq.;

the Spirit of, conceived by the Iroquois as a woman, vii. 177;

cultivated in Burma, vii. 242;

ceremony at eating the new, viii. 64;

forbidden as food by Empedocles, viii. 301;

thrown about the house at the expulsion of demons, ix. 143 sq.;

thrown about the house at the expulsion of ghosts, ix. 155;

divination by, on Midsummer Eve, x. 209