Personification of corn as mother and daughter, i. 130, 207 _sqq._
Perthshire, harvest customs in, i. 156 _sq._
Peru, Indians of, i. 120, 122, ii. 249; their worship of the Pleiades, i. 310
Peruvians, their customs as to Mother of Maize, etc., i. 171 _sqq._
Phigalia, horse-headed Demeter of, ii. 21, 338
Philistines, their charm against mice, ii. 281, 283
Pig, corn-spirit as, i. 298 _sqq._; in relation to Demeter, ii. 16 _sqq._; not eaten in Crete, 21 _n._ 1; in ancient Egypt, 24 _sqq._
---- -meat forbidden to women at sowing seed, i. 115
Pig's flesh not eaten by field labourers, ii. 33, 139
Pigs, sacrifice of, i. 74, 97; not to be eaten by enchanters of crops, 100 _sq._; sacrificed to the moon, ii. 25; souls of dead in, 286, 295, 296
Pindar, old scholiast on, i. 71, 74, 77, 78; on rebirth, 84
Plaiting the last standing corn before cutting it, i. 142, 144, 153, 154, 157, 158
Planets, human victims sacrificed to, i. 261 _sq._
Plants thought to be animated by spirits, ii. 82 _sq._
Plato and the doctrine of transmigration, ii. 308
Pleiades, autumnal setting of, i. 45; morning rising of, the signal for reaping in Greece, 48 _sq._; in primitive calendars, 116, 307 _sqq._; associated with the rainy season, 318
Pliny, on the setting of the Pleiades, i. 318
Plough in relation to Dionysus, i. 5; in primitive agriculture, 113
---- Monday, i. 33; rites of, ii. 325 _sqq._; English celebration of, 329 _sqq._
Ploughing at Carnival, ceremony of, i. 28, 29, 331, 332, 334; at Athens, sacred ceremony of, 31; in Greece, season of, 45; with oxen, 129 _n._ 1; Chinese ceremony of, ii. 14 _sq._; ceremonies at, 57
Ploughings, three a year, i. 53 _n._ 1; Sacred, in Attica, 108
Ploughmen and plough-horses, the Yule Boar given to, i. 301, 303
Plutarch, on a Roman rite, ii. 108; on immortality, i. 15; on mourning festival of Demeter, 46; on sacrifices, ii. 31; on Apis, 36
---- and Persephone, ii. 9; rude originals of, 334
Poland, harvest customs in, i. 144, 145, 148, 150, 277
Pollution of death, ii. 85 _n._ 3; ceremonial, of girl at puberty, 268
Polynesia, observation of the Pleiades in, i. 313
Pomegranates sprung from blood of Dionysus, i. 14
Po-nagar, goddess of agriculture, ii. 56, 57, 58
Poor Old Woman, corn left on field for, i. 231 _sq._