Peru, sacrifice of children among the Indians of, 185 Perun, sacrifice of firstborn children to, 183 Peruvian Indians, 63 _n._1 _Pfingstl_, a Whitsuntide mummer, 206 _sq._, 211 Phalaris, the brazen bull of, 75 Phaya Phollathep, “Lord of the Heavenly Hosts,” 149 Pherecydes, 163 _n._1 Philippine Islands, 3 Philo Judaeus, his doctrine of the Trinity, 6 _n._ —— of Byblus, 166, 179 Phocaeans, dead, propitiated with games, 95 Phoenicians, their custom of human sacrifice, 166 _sq._, 178, 179 Phrixus and Helle, the children of King Athamas, 161 _sqq._ Piceni, guided by a woodpecker (_picus_), 186 _n._4 Pilsen district of Bohemia, Whitsuntide custom in the, 210 _sq._ Pindar on the rebirth of the dead, 70 Pitrè, G., 224 _n._1 Plataea, sacrifices and funeral games in honour of the slain at, 95 _sq._ Plato on human sacrifices, 163 Ploughing, annual ceremony of, performed by temporary king, 149, 155 _sq._, 157 Ploughs, bronze, used by Etruscans at founding of cities, 157 Plutarch, 163; on the death of the Great Pan, 6; on human sacrifices among the Carthaginians, 167 Poison ordeal, fatal effects of the use of the, 197 Polynesia, remarkable rule of succession in, 190; prevalence of infanticide in, 191, 196 Poplars burnt on Shrove Tuesday, 224 _n._1 Poseidon, identified with Erechtheus, 87 Posidonius, ancient Greek traveller, 142 Possession by spirits of dead kings, 25 _sq._ Preference for a violent death, 9 _sqq._ Pregnancy, funeral rites performed for a father in the fifth month of his wife’s, 189 Prince of Wales Islands, 64 Procopius, 14 Prussians, supreme ruler of the old, 41 _sq._; custom of the old, 156 Pruyssenaere, E. de, 30 _n._1 Psoloeis, the, at Orchomenus, 163, 164 Ptarmigans and ducks, dramatic contest of the, 259 Puruha, a province of Quito, 185 Pururavas and Urvasi, Indian story of, 131 Pylos, burning the Carnival at, 232 _sq._ Pythagoras at Delphi, 4 Pythian games, 80 _sq._; celebrated in honour of the Python, 93 Queen of May in the Isle of Man, 259; married to the King of May, 266 —— of Winter in the Isle of Man, 258 Queensland, natives of, their superstitions as to falling stars, 60 Quilicare, suicide of kings of, 46 _sq._ Quiteve, title of kings of Sofala, 37 _sq._ Race for the kingdom at Olympia, 90 Races to determine the successor to the kingship, 103 _sqq._ _Radica_, a festival at the end of the Carnival at Frosinone, 222 Rahab or Leviathan, 106 _n._2 Rain-charms, 211 —— clan, 31 —— -god, 61 —— -makers among the Dinka, 32 _sqq._ —— -making ceremonies, 20 Rajah, temporary, 154 Ralî, the fair of, 265 Ram with golden fleece, 162 —— -god of Mendes, 7 _n._3 —— sacrificed to Pelops, 92, 104 Raratonga, custom of succession in, 191 _Rauchfiess_, a Whitsuntide mummer, 207 _n._1 Rebirth of the dead, 70; of a father in his son, 188 _sqq._; of the parent in the child, 287 Reckoning intervals of time, Greek and Latin modes of reckoning, 59 _n._1