viii. 328;

special, at New Year, ix. 149 _sq._; with twelve knobs offered to Cronus and other deities, ix. 351, 351 _n._ 3; Hallowe’en, x. 238, 241, 245; Beltane, x. 148 _sq._, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155; divination by, x. 242, 243

Calabar, fetish king at, iii. 22 _sq._; soul of chief in sacred grove at, xi. 161; negroes of, their belief in external or bush souls lodged in animals, xi. 204 _sqq._, 220, 222 _n._ 5; the fattening-house for girls in, xi. 259

—— district, heads of chiefs buried secretly in the, vi. 104

——, Old, sacred grove of, ii. 42; annual expulsion of demons at, viii. 108; biennial expulsion of demons at, ix. 203 _sq._

—— River, iv. 197, ix. 28

Calabash, ceremony of breaking the, at festival of new fruits, viii. 68 _n._ 3

Calabashes, souls shut up in, iii. 72

Calabria, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, iv. 241; custom of swinging in, iv. 284; Easter custom in, v. 254; murderers taste the blood of their victims in, viii. 156; annual expulsion of witches in, ix. 157; holy water at Easter in, x. 123

Calah, ancient capital of Assyria, annual marriage of the god Nabu at, ii. 130

Calamities, almost all, set down to witchcraft, xi. 19 _sq._

Caland, Dr. W., on the magical nature of Vedic ritual, i. 229

Calauria, Poseidon worshipped in, v. 203 _n._ 2

Calbe, in the Altmark, the He-goat at harvest near, vii. 287

Calchaquis Indians of Paraguay, their way of keeping off death, iii. 31

Calcutta, keys as amulets in, iii. 236

Caldwell, Bishop R., on devil-dancers in Southern India, i. 382

Calenberg, holy oak near, ii. 371

Calendar, regulation of the early, an affair of religion, iv. 69, vii. 83; the natural, vi. 25; change in Chinese, x. 137; the reform of the, in relation to floral superstitions, xi. 55 _n._ 1

Calendar, the Alexandrian, used by Plutarch, vi. 84; used by Theophanes, ix. 395 _n._ 1

—— of the primitive Aryans, ix. 325

——, the Babylonian, ix. 398 _n._ 2

—— of the Celts of Gaul, ix. 342 _sq._

——, the Coligny, i. 17 _n._ 2, ix. 342 _sqq._

——, the Coptic, vi. 6 _n._ 3

——, the Egyptian, vi. 24 _sqq._; date of its introduction, vi. 36 _n._ 2

—— of the Egyptian farmer, vi. 30 _sqq._

—— of Esne, vi. 49 _sq._

——, the ancient Greek, determined by astronomical considerations, iv. 68 _sq._; regulated by the moon and of little use to the husbandman, vii. 52 _sq._, 80

—— of the Indians of San Juan Capistrano in California, vii. 125 _sq._

——, the Julian, vi. 93 _n._ 1; used by Mohammedans, x. 218 _sq._

—— of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, vi. 29 _n._, ix. 171

—— of the ancient Mexicans, its mode of intercalation, vi. 28 _n._ 3

——, the Mohammedan, x. 216 _sq._, 218 _sq._

—— of Philocalus, v. 303 _n._ 2, 304 _n._ 3, vi. 95 _n._ 1

——, the Roman, vii. 83 _sq._

——, the Syro-Macedonian, iv. 116

Calendars, the Roman Rustic, vi. 95 _n._ 1; the Pleiades in primitive, vii. 307 _sqq._; conflict of, x. 218

_Calendeau, calignau_, the Yule-log at Marseilles, x. 250

Calf shod in buskins sacrificed to Dionysus, vii. 33; the genitals of, served up to man who gave last stroke at threshing,