Punjaub, the, General Nicholson worshipped in his lifetime in, 100; human sacrifice in, 112; belief as to tattooing in, 180; Snake tribe in, 535, 536; human scapegoat in, 566
Puppets, of rushes thrown into the Tiber, 493; used to attract demons of sickness from living patients, 564
Puppies, red-haired, sacrificed by the Romans to the Dog-star, 444
Purification, of man-slayers, 212, 215; of hunters and fishers, 216; after contact with a pig, 472; by washing, 473; before partaking of new fruits, 484, 488; by emetics, 485, 488; by standing on sacrificed human victim, 572; by beating, 602
Purificatory ceremonies, at reception of strangers, 195; on return from a journey, 197
—— theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, 642, 647; more probable than the solar theory, 650
Queen, name given to last corn cut at harvest, 407; the Harvest, in England, 405; of Athens, married to Dionysus, 142; of the Corn-ears, 405; of Egypt, the wife of Ammon, 142; of Heaven, 337, 711; of May, 127, 129, 131, 320
Queensland, beliefs as to the afterbirth in, 39; namesakes of the dead change their names in some of the tribes of, 253; expulsion of a demon in Central, 562; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 598
Race, to determine the Whitsuntide king, 129; succession to a kingdom determined by a, 156; for a bride, 156; of reapers to last sheaf, 459
Races, at Whitsuntide, 124, 129; on horseback to the Maypole, 132; at fire-festivals, 611
Radica, a festival at the end of the Carnival in Frosinone, 302
Rain, the magical control of, 62–78, 234, 629, 645; prayers for, 71, 77, 86, 118, 159–161; kings expected to give, 85–87, 98–99; supposed to fall only as a result of magic, 87; Zeus as the god of, 159; prevented by the blood of a woman who has miscarried, 209
Ram, with golden fleece, 290; as vicarious sacrifice for human victim, 292; sacrificed to Ammon, 477; Tibetan goddess riding on a, 492; killing the sacred, 500; consecration of a white, 534
Reapers, contests between, 401, 403, 404, 407, 426, 439; throw sickles at the last standing corn, 401, 403, 404, 407, 446, 452; blindfolded, 404, 407; of rice deceiving the rice-spirit, 414; pretend to mow down visitors to the harvest-field, 430; remedies for pains in the back, 455
