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Index.

Conte du Graal, cited, 267

Continental immigrations into Britain, 34 ; influence on Irish folklore, 62

Conservatism of early art and philo- sophy, 39

Conybeare, F. C, review by, 165

Cook, Captain, Voyages, cited on animal sacrifice in Tahiti, 179

Copenhagen, legend of the Devil and the wind at, 275

Corinth, capture of, 175

Cornish land-measure, a, E. Sidney Hartland, 189

Cornwall, folklore of, a Cornish land-measure, 189 ; ropes of sand and other tasks set demons, 369 ; Tregeagle and his futile tasks 370 ; wealth of folk-tales in, 46

Corpse, the, on the man's back, Sutherlandshire, 375

Corpse, burying in wall of churches, reason for, 367, 368

Corpses walking, Denmark, means of preventing, 216, 217

Correspondence, 79, 1S3, 272, 362

Cotton in Indian wedding ceremonies, threads, 147, bundles, 153

Council, etc., appointed, 21

Cow, five sacred products of India, 277 ; unlucky to hear low after sun- down, 91

Cows, bewitched, 285

Cox, Miss M. R., cited on magic dresses in folk-tales, 129

Craigie, W. A., Ewald Tang Kristen- sen, a Danish Folk-lorist, {ill.) 194 ; Some Highland P^olk-tales, 372

Crane, the, in Australian folklore, 315

Crane, Professor, cited on the For- gotten Bride theme, 120

Crathis, priestesses of, 130

Creation myths, Babylonian origin of Biblical version, 72

Creation, savage idea of, 301

Cremation, 132

Crin Goths, origin and language of, 75

Crime induced by superstition, 255

Crocodile form of dragons in legend,

73

Crooke, W., Glossary of Indian words in McNair's paper, 155 ; Tribes and Castes of the North- IVest Pro- vinces of India, reviewed, 167 ; Wooing of Penelope, the, 97

Cross, runic, at Brora, 278

Crow, the, in Australian folklore, 311 ; in Scotch folklore, 373

Ctesippus throws ox-foot at Odysseus

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Cuchulinn ; analogy between him and Sir Gawain, 265, 266, 270 ; Saga, parallels in Arthurian romance, 182

Cuckoo, unlucky to hear it fasting, 84

Cunnunbeillee, wife of Baiame, 303

Cup, (^see7t also Grail), in chastity tests, 130

Cures see Charms, and Medicinal folklore

Curtin, cited on the whirling rampart of castle, 270

Customs and Ceremonies observed at Betrothal or " Mangaval," and at a Wedding or " Viah " (also called "Shadhee"), by moderately well- off Mohammedans of the farmer class, in and about the district near Ghazi, in the Punjab, by Major McNair and T. L. Barlow, 136

Cyclops, or bafiled giant Saga, 99

Cyprus, folklore of, 188

Danaides, the, and parallel tales,

369

Dances. Australian, at Bora mysteries, 300 ; as moral lesson, 324 ; in the Lebanon, 8 ; Spanish Easter dance, 284

David's harem appropriated by Absa- lom, 116

Daramulun, Australian divinity, 294; secret name of, 295 ; family of, 297 ; cannibalism of, 298, 299 ; slain by Baiame 299, 304, 312,

313

Dead, burial of, by Tobit, 242 ; left unburied for debt, 226, 228, 235, 236, 237, 239 ; men's goods divided by kinsmen in Homeric days, IIO, burned, 115, 117, 118

Death and funeral customs and beliefs, anticipatory grave-digging, 123; Chinese, 122, 123; death at ebb-tide, 272 ; Danish, 215, 216 ; Egyptian, 163, 164, 339; Greek, cremation, 132 ; later Greek, 12^ ; Greek games, funeral origin of, 178 ; Indian, on death of a king, 116, 122; Lebanon, 8; Lincoln- shire, 187 ; Roman, 123 ; Sand- wich Isles, on death of a chief, 115, 116; and elsewhere, 116, 117; Scotland, 87, 89, 102, 123, 377 ; Sparta, on death of a king.