Prussia, reverence for the oak in, i. 58; high trees worshipped by the ancient Prussians, i. 64; custom after a funeral by the old Prussians, i. 177; self-immolation of the supreme ruler of the old Prussians, i. 223; ceremony at spring ploughing in, i. 286; corn drenching in, i. 287; gardens of Adonis in, i. 294, 295; harvest custom in, i. 336, 338, 343; ceremony at the sowing of the winter corn by the Prussian Slavs, ii. 18, 19; midsummer fire festival in, ii. 265 Puberty, girls at, not allowed to touch the ground or see the sun, ii. 225-253; girls secluded at, ii. 225; reasons for the seclusion, ii. 238 _sq._ Pulverbatch, oak tree superstition at, ii. 368 Punjaub, Gen. Nicholson worshipped by a sect in the, i. 41; ceremony at the bursting of the cotton boles in the, i. 353; custom at the festival of lamps, ii. 176 Purification after travel, i. 157, 158 Pyrenees, customs in the, i. 101 Quauhtitlans, human sacrifices by the, ii. 221 Queen of the sacred rites, i. 7 Queensland, initiatory rites in, ii. 343, 344 Quilacare, self-immolation of the king of, i. 224 Quoja, initiatory rites in, ii. 347 Ra, the sun-god, i. 313-316 Rain-charm, i. 93, 199, 287, 289, 299, 333, 374, 390, 400; ii. 42 —— kings of, i. 52, 53 —— making, i. 13-22 Rajah, custom at the death of a, i. 232 Rajah Vijyanagram, his aversion to iron, i. 174 Rajamahall, offerings of first-fruits in, ii. 374, 375 Rali fair, the, i. 276, 277 Ram, sacred, ii. 63; Egyptian sacrifice of the, ii. 92-94; consecration of the white ram by the Kalmucks, ii. 136 Ramin, harvest custom in, i. 377 Raskolniks, the, and mirrors, i. 147 Rattlesnake not killed, ii. 110 Ratzeburg, harvest custom in, i. 376, 377 Red cock, ii. 9 —— haired victims, i. 306, 307 Reflection, the soul in the, i. 145-148 Religion, marks of a primitive, i. 348, 349 —— and magic, relation of, i. 30-32 Religious aspect of Peruvian, Parthian and Egyptian sovereigns, i. 48-50 Resurrection, the, of animals, ii. 123-125; traces in folk-tales of the belief in, ii. 125; simulation of death and resurrection at initiatory rites, ii. 342-358 Rhetra, priest tastes the sacrificial blood at, i. 35 Rhön mountains, fire festivals in the, ii. 249 Rice-bride, the, i. 355 Rice harvest, ceremonies at the, ii. 71, 72 Rio de la Plata, seclusion of girls amongst the Indians of, ii. 230, 231 Roman cure for fever, ii. 152 —— haircutting custom, i. 199 Romans, tree worship by the, i. 99 Rome, ceremony of driving out the old Mars from, ii. 208-210 Romove, sacred oak at, i. 58, 64 Rook, expulsion of evil in the island of, ii. 158; initiation festival, ii. 352 Rosenheim, harvest custom in, ii. 20 Roti, haircutting ceremony in the island of, i. 201, 205, 206 Rottenburg, midsummer ceremony in, ii. 266, 267 Roumanians, rain-making by the, i. 16; custom after a death by the, i. 176; corn-drenching by the, i. 286