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 Blood-guilt, ancient conception of, 451; Attic law concerning, 443; penalties for, 453; Plato's legislation concerning, 444

Blue beads, as amulets, 12

Body and soul, relation of, 361 ff., 526 ff.; re-union of, 538

Bones of the dead, how treated after exhumation, 540 f.

Boreas, 52

Breast-bone of fowl, divination from, 327

Bridal customs (see Wedding, Marriage)

'Bridge of Arta,' The, 262 f.

Brumalia (in Greece), 221

Burial (see also Cremation, Inhumation); demanded by ghosts, 431; lack of, 407 f., 427, 449; lack of, as punishment, 457

Buzzing in ear, as omen, 329

Callicantzari, 190-255; afraid of fire, 202; beast-like elements in, 203; compared with Centaurs, 253; demons or men?, 207-211; description of, 191; description of smaller species of 193; development of superstition concerning, 254; dialectic forms of name, 211 ff.; footgear of, 221; general habits of, 194; how outwitted, 196-200; identified with Centaurs, 235; identified with were-wolves, 208; offerings to, 201, 232; originally anthropomorphic, 206; origin of name, 211 ff.; power of transformation possessed by, 204, 240; precautions against, 200-202; resembling Satyrs and Centaurs, 192; sources of their features and attributes, 237 ff.; stories concerning, 196-200; their activity limited to Christmastide, 221; their relation to Satyrs, etc., 229 ff.; two main classes of, 191; variously represented, 190; whether demons or men originally, 209 ff.; wives of, 200

Callicantzaros, The Great, 195

Callirrhoë, as sacred spring, 555

Candles, thrown into grave at funeral, 512

'Captain Thirteen,' a folk-story, 75

Carnival, celebrations of, 224 ff.

Cat, jumping over dead person, 410; omens drawn from, 328

Caves, haunted by Nymphs, 160

Cenotaphs, 490

Centauros, son of Ixion, 242

Centaurs (see Callicantzari), 190-255; and Lapithae, 242; as wizards, 248 f.; compared with Callicantzari, 253; general character of, 246; Heracles' fight with, 253; how represented in Art, 247; in Hesiod, 242; in Homer, 243; in Pindar, 241; popular conception of, how affected by Art, 252; Prof. Ridgeway's view of, 244 ff.; various species of, 235, 237; whether human or divine in origin, 241 ff.; why called 'Beasts,' 245 ff.

Cephalus, 601

Cerberus, 97, 99

Character of modern Greeks, 28 ff.

Charms, 286

Charon, 98-117; addressed as 'Saint,' 53; ancient literary presentation of, 106; as ferryman, earliest mention of, 114; brother to Uranos, 116; identified with Death, 114

Charon's obol, 108, 285; as charm to prevent soul from re-entering body, 434; custom of, how interpreted, 405 f.

Charos, appearance of, 100; as agent of God, 101-4; as archer, 105; as ferryman, 107; as godfather, story of, 102; as horseman, 105; as pirate, 107-8; as warrior, 105; as wrestler, 104, 105; Christianised character of, 101; coin as fee for, 109; functions of, 101; household of, 99; in connexion with Christianity, 101; originally Pelasgian deity, 116; pagan character of, 105

Charun, Etruscan god, 116

Child-birth, precautions against Nereids observed at, 140; precautions at, 10-11

Children, conceived or born on Church-festivals, how afflicted, 408; liable to lycanthropy, 208; preyed upon by Gelloudes, 177; preyed upon by Striges, 181; stricken by Nereids, how treated, 145; suspected of lycanthropy, how treated, 210

Chiron, 241 ff., 248; as magician and prophet, 248 f.

Cholera, personified, 22

Christ, accepted as new deity by pagans, 41

'Christian,' popular usage of word, 66

Christianity, became polytheistic, 42; and paganism, 36

Church, influenced by paganism, 572 f.

Churching of women, 20

Clement of Alexandria, on the Mysteries, 570, 572; on rites of Aphrodite, 581

Clytemnestra, ghost of, 474

Cock, as victim, 326

Cocks, superstitions concerning, 195

Coin, as charm, 111; placed in mouth of dead persons, 108, 405; placed in mouth of dead persons, various substitutes for, 112

'Comforting,' feast of, 533

Common origin of gods and men, 65