sia, _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

Switzerland, St. Nicholas in, 218-9;
Christmas-tree in, 267;
birds fed at Christmas, 289

Sword-dance, 294, 299-301

_Sylvesterabend_, 274, 322

Tacitus, 200, 299

Tate, Nahum, 84

Tauler, 43

Teme valley, "first-footing" in, 324

Tenby, _Plygain_ at, 99;
St. Clement's Day at, 212

Tersteegen, Gerhard, 75-6

Tertullian, 269

Teutonic New Year, 171-3, 189, 202-4

Thomas of Celano, 38

Thomas, Mr. N. W., 293

Thomas, St., his festival, 223-6

"Thomassin'," 226

Thurston, Mr. Edgar, 322

Tieck, 266 |400|

Tille, Dr. A., 5, 110, 169, 172-3, 231-2, 268

Tipteerers, 298

Tolstoy's "War and Peace," 3