Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, 95-6, 107, 114-5 _Saturnalia_, 24, 113, 165-7, 180, 359 Schiller, 266 _Schimmel_ and _Schimmelreiter_, 199-200, 206, 231 Schoolboys' festival, 223-4. _See also_ Boy Bishop Scotland, Christmas carols in, 70; Hallowe'en customs in, 197-8; sowens eaten in, 285; "first-foot" in, 325-6; other New Year customs in, 326-9, 332-3; Candlemas in, 354 |399| Sedulius, Coelius, 32 Sequences, 32-3 Serao, Matilde, 113 Serbs, Christmas customs of, 251-4, 341 Shakespeare, 239, 298 Shepherds in Christmas drama, 123-4, 132-7, 139-43 Shropshire, soul-cakes in, 192-3; Guy Fawkes Day at Ludlow, 199; Twelve Days superstitions in, 240-1, 258; Christmas Brand in, 258; Christmas decorations in, 275-6, 355; "wigs" in, 285; cattle specially fed at Christmas, 289; morris-dancers in, 299; New Year in, 324; Candlemas in, 355 Sicily, Midnight Mass in, 98; Christmas _novena_ in, 112-3; Christmas procession at Messina, 113; Christmas plays in, 150; All Souls' Eve in, 192; Martinmas in, 204; St. Lucia's Eve in, 222; presents in, 278; Candlemas candles in, 353 Sidgwick, Mr. F., 6, 77-8 Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred, 264 Silesia, _Schimmel_ in, 200; Martinmas in, 206; Christmas Eve in, 232; animals specially fed at Christmas, 289 Slav New Year, 172-3; Christmas songs and customs, 237-8, 251-4, 290, 341. _See also_ Bohemia, Crivoscia, Poland, Russia Smith, W. Robertson, 164-5, 175-6, 178-9 Somersetshire wassailing, 345 Soul cakes, 192-4 South America, Christmas in, 98 Southwell, 79-80 Sowens eaten, 285, 325 Spain, Christmas poetry in, 65-7; Midnight Mass in, 97-8, 117; the crib in, 117; Christmas drama in, 128, 148-51, 153; _turron_ in, 291; Epiphany in, 343-4 Spervogel, 42 Spinning, during Twelve Days, 240-3 Staffordshire, St. Clement's Day in, 211-2 "Star-singing," 151-2 "Stella," 125-7, 129 Stephen, St., his festival, 292, 302, 311-6 Stephens, Dean, 35 Stow's "Survay," 272 Strasburg, early Christmas-trees at, 265-6 _Strenae_, 168, 277-8 Stubbes, Philip, 184, 298 Styles, Old and New, 268-9 Styria, _Habergaiss_ in, 201; Perchta in, 243; St. John's wine in, 315 Sun, the, December 25 as festival of, 23; Yule not connected with, 171-2; sun-charms, 182, 198, 252, 254 Suso, 44 Sussex, squirrel-hunting in, 214; tipteerers in, 298; wassailing fruit-trees in, 345 Swabia, Pelzmaerte in, 206-7, 217 Sweden, Christmas service in, 99; "star-singing" in, 151; animal masks in, 202; St. Lucia's Day in, 221-4; Christmas Eve superstitions in, 235-6; Yule log in, 257; Yule candles in, 259-60; Christmas-trees in, 267, 270; Yule straw in, 276; Christmas presents in, 278-9; pig's head eaten in, 286; dances in, 293-4; St. Stephen's Day in, 312-3, 315; "St. Knut's Day" in, 351 Swinburne, 84-5 Swine as sacrificial animal, 284, 286