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Christian influence on Brahmanism, 4

Christmas, animals carried in proces- sion, 257-8 ; carp eaten, Schleswig- Holstein, 259 ; mummers, 262 ; owl and squirrel hunted, Suffolk, 251 ; sacrifices, 262

Chudleigh, children stolen by pixies, 213

Church, alphabet used in consecra- ting, 105 ; porch, wraiths of those about to die seen from, Wiltshire,

345

Churchyard, Sunday ball play in, Bedd Gelert, 424

Cinders, red-hot, to heat bath of new- born child, Lancashire, 106

Clever Princess, The, Greek folktale, 336-9

Clod of earth, child-stealing spirit changes into, 146

Cock, black, buried as cure for epi- lepsy, Hebrides, 446 ; dies with owner, Switzerland, 237 ; eaten ceremonially, 258, 260 ; hunted locally, 250 ; respected in S. Eng- land, 242 ; sacrificed as cure. Con- tin (Ross), 446 ; sacrificed to Woden, 85 ; struck blindfold at and otherwise sacrificed, 251-4

Cockchafer, carried in procession, 258 ; head of first seen bitten off, Pomerania, 254 ; respected locally, 239 ; said to be eaten locally, 259

Cockroach, respected locally, 240

Coco-nuts, as rain charm, Ceylon, 19 ; planting customs and beliefs, Malay, 306

Coffee, omens from, Cairo, 381

Cold, how men and women feel, Cairene saying, 381

Coleshill, hare hunted, Easter, 250

Colic in animals, cured by left-handed rope, Hebrides, 447-8

Colombo, bull-roarer used in proces- sion, 456

Colours : {see also Black ; Blue ; and White) ; sacred, 28-37

Combats, ceremonial, 18-21, 306,

393 ^ Congres des Traditions Populaires,

Exposition Universelle (Paris) de

1900, 125-6, 427-33 Conneely a seal clan, 232 Connemara, cuckoo respected, 240 ;

Deeney's Feasant Lore from Gaelic

Ireland reviewed, 317

Consecrating church, alphabet used

in, 105 Consecrating sacred stones, use of oil

in, 198 Contes Populaires de la Basse Nor- tiiandie, by V. Brunet, reviewed, 426 Contin (Ross), cock sacrificed to cure

patient, 446 Copts satirised in Cairene tales, 356-7 Cormorant, respected at Rerrick,

240 Corn-spirits, animal, 257-8 ; "reaping maiden," Hebrides, 441; "rice soul," Malays, 306 Cornwall : [see also Towednack) ; blackbird pie on Twelfth Day, 259 ; first butterfly seen killed, 254; mice foretell death, 345 ; spider respected, 241 Corpses, dread of, Wiltshire, 346 : head laid between legs, 413 ; removed from house, Wiltshire, 346 Correspondence, 105-6, 209-10,

318-24, 427-38 Cos, island of, snake's horn as charm,

321 Costume, papers on at Paris Congress

of Folklore, 429 Council of Nicaea, in Slavonic charm,

142 Cottiiiy Folk-Lore, collections for,

47-8 Couvade, among Malays, 307 Cow : (see also Cattle) ; in Cairene folktale, 371-2 ; carried in proces- sion, 258 ; cure for snake bite, Cyprus, 122, Cos, 321 ; dies with owner, 237 ; ear cut to ensure con- ception, Mecklenburg, 457 ; fire carried sunwise round, if found dead, island of Lewis, 447 Cow-flop or foxglove in medicine,

Devon, 216-7 Cowhouse, protected from witchcraft

by hanging up crow, Linda, 255 Coyote, "transformer" in mythology of Thompson Indians, British Columbia, 397-8 Craigie, W. A., A Fairy Dog's Tooth, 450-2 ; review by, of Sephton's Saga of King Sverri of Norway, 193-6 Crane, crest of clan in N.W Canada, 61-2 ; demon, slain by Krishna, 13 ; white, on totem post of Bella Coola Indians, 301