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Index.

Cayote or Coyote, legend of, 206-7 \ the Mephistopheles of the Wintu;

345 Celestial and earthly offences, early Japan, periodical purification for,

305 Celtic beliefs, a duty to preserve, 86 influence on the British race, 74

literature balladless, 99, 100

migrations, 81

Central house-pillar, circumambu- lating in Japanese myth, 299, 300

Cerne, Dorset, curative wells at, 479) leather and Dowlas trade of, 479

Chain of cooking-pot, ideas con- nected with, Hebrides, 276

Chained idols, Burma, 420, India and Japan, ib.

Challenges, Indian folktales, 439

Chance words as omens, 153

Chandelier offered to a Fate, Greek Isles. 499

Changing abode, lucky day for, 267

clothes, between men and

women in unbinding spells, 160 ; on Sunday, 183

Chants, Les, et les Contes des Baronga de la Bate de Delagoa, Recueillis et transcrits par H. A. Junod, reviewed by A. Werner, 221

Charcoal, treasure-trove turning into, how to prevent, Greek Isles, 182

Charms, {see Ask,) Beast-Binding and Binding Spells, Ilebridean, {see Freer) ; against having children, 152; against Evil Eye, 275-81 ; to cure over-looked cattle, 276 ; to cure or prevent snake-bite, India, 404 ; to get free from imprisonment, 170 ; to injure women and girls, 169-70 ; Medicinal, Dislocation Spell, 331, Pleurisy charm, 331

Chastity, male and female, India, 426

Child-birth, fatal, B. Columbia, 206, Japan, 300

Child, living, buried in building, Copenhagen, 360

revivified by crocodile, S.

African folklore, 224

in unbinding spell for married

people, 158-9 unchristened, to protect against

evil spirits, 350 Children, Midnight, and their gifts,

115 ; not to sleep in waterless

house, 269; not lucky to name after those who die young, 266; switching passers-by, in Pelzenichel customs, Heidelberg, 180 ; in underwater nurseries, S. African legends, 224 ; wearing colours against Evil Eye, 152

Children's Games, 77, 336

China, ancestor-worship in, 302 ; female heirs preferred in, 229 ; " left " superior to "right" in, 302 ; myth of creation of sun and moon, 302-3 ; proverb from, 104

Christ, 469 ; Australian ideas re- sembling, 28, 52 ; colour of eyes of, 275

Christian influence on Australian beliefs, 7, 11, 22-30, 51-55 ; on Teutonic legends, 83

Christians in Socotra, 230

Christmas, (see Veilleede Noel), cake- laying on graves at, Calymnos, 180- 1

Christmas Eve, 263, children born at midnight on, their gifts. 115

Day, an unlucky birthday, 174

Mummers, (at Mullion) by

Florence Grove, 351

at Rugby, {ill.) W. H. D.

Rouse, 186

at Newboid, 187, sqq.

Christmastide customs, Heidelberg, 180

to Epiphany, Jews searching for

Moses, Cos, 176

Churinga, of Australia, 236, 383.

494

Churning, loss of butter, and cure, Wexford, 364

Circle or line, protecting, Indian folk- lore, 418

Ciresenthal, Baden, beating cattle crosswise, in spring, 180

Clatkeq, 198, sqq.

Claws of bear in magic potions, 155

Cloth blessed after cleansing, Hebrides, 261 ; pieces of, hung on trees, old Japanese myth, 306

Clothes changed in unbinding spell, 160 ; of men and women exchanged, 246 ; prohibition to change on Sun- day, 183

Cloud-compelling, 153

Club or hammer of Ukko, the Finn god, 328

Cock, the, in folklore, 182, 262-4 269, in African do., 223