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Catfish : in pool of " long ju-ju,"

Niger delta, 168-70 Cat's cradle, Torres Straits, 103 Cattle : i^see also Bull ; Calf ; and Cow) ; charm to avert disease, Hebrides, 41, N. India. 189-90 ; driven round fire sunwise at Beltane, Hebrides, 41 ; in rice harvest cere- monies, Pongul, 77 Cattle Lagoon (S. Aus. ): Narimaia creek in Wonkanguru and Urabunna legend, 414 Cawdor : 'bogle' charm against witch- craft, 275 (plate) Celebes : {see also Toradjas) ; head- hunting, 437 Centipede : dirtiness punished by, Heb- rides, 37 ; names for, Hebrides, 37 Central America : naguals, 349-50,

360, 376 ; tonas, 360 Cerna : hunting of beasts of tabooed

to King Conaire, 329 Ceylon : [see also Hambantotta ; Kandy ; Kattaragam ; Pongul ; Talawakelle ; aW Tamils) ; women throw cut hair into stream, 78 Chachar Pass : cairn in, 266 Chachar, stream of : in Balochi poem,

274 Chaff: sprinkled before wife-beater's

door, 246 ' Chaining ' newly-married pair, see

Marriage customs and beliefs ' Chairing ' newly-married pair, see

Marriage customs and beliefs Chakar, Balochi hero. 254-5,258-9,273 Chakar-Mari, hill of: in Balochi

heroic ballad, 255 Chakar-tankh, defile in Balochi heroic

ballad, 254 Channel Islands, see Guernsey ; and

Jersey Charans : marriage customs, 246 Charente, see Angouleme Charlbury : how RoUright Stones

counted, 293 Charms and spells :

against hlood, flow of, St. Briavel's, 173 ; breast ailments, Hebrides, 57 ; cattle disease, Hebrides, 41, N. India. 189-90; "enemies of the rice," Malay Penin. , 159-90 ; evil eye, 341-4, Hebrides, 52, Hebron, 337. Khonds, 242, Syria, 113, 202. 337; e\al spirits, Ceylon, 79, Hebrides, 30, Malays, 152, Pongul, 77 ; eyes, pains or dust

&c. in, Hebrides, 57-8 ; ghosts, Wyke, 2, 92-4 ; illness, Balivanich, 59, Kennet Valley, 424, Torres Straits, 103 ; being lost, Hebrides, 37 ; " na barrin" (children's illness), Hebrides, 57; needle prick, Hebrides, 33 ; rheumatism, Bloemfontein, 181-2, St. Briavel's, 173 ; snakes, Heb- rides, 39 ; styes, Hebrides, 58 ; thorns, wound from, Kennet Valley, 426, St. Briavel's, 173 ; toothache, St. Briavel's, 173 ; warts, Kennet Valley, 420 ; whooping-cough, Hebrides, 57, St. Briavel's, 172 ; witchcraft, Cawdor, 275, (plate), Hebrides, 41, 59, Newlands, 176; wounds, festering of, St. Briavel's, 173; broadside Letter of Agbarus of Edessa, Kennet Valley, 424 ; child- birth, for safety in, Kennet Valley, 424 ; coco-nut palm sap, for col- lecting, Malays, 163-4 ; collection of, Malay Penin., 308-9; to avert effects of unlucky births, Punjab, 64-5, 67-8 ; among Hebrews, 218 ; among Kurnai tribes, 19-20; magic squares in, 190 ; New Guinea, 337 ; for rain, Torres Straits, 103 ; soul, to abduct, Malays, 146 ; stone beads, N. India, 337 ; for use with four-leaved shamrock, Hebrides, 53 ; Tunis, 337 ; to walk or dive in water, Malays, 136 ; water taken from river at sunrise, Kandy, 79 ; Welsh, 94 ; written, Malays, 152, Wyke (Yorks), 2, 92-4 (plate) ; The Modern Commercial Aspect of an Ancient Superstition, (" Trade " charms), by E. Lovett, 337-8, 340-7 [plate) Chastity tests, 236 Chathill : bride &c. jump over

'petten' stone or stool, 228-9 Cheese : charm against witchcraft, Hebrides, 41 ; "cheese eaters," village sobriquet, W. England, 389 ; made at Beltane, Hebrides, 41 Chelsea : folk-etymology, 204 Cherrington : place rhymes, 391-3 Cheshire : {see also Crewe ; a7id Knutsford) ; ' lifting ' custom, 250 Chichester : St. Richard, 217 Chicken : in dream, Hebrides, 51 Childbirth customs and beliefs, see Birth customs and beliefs