vii. 148;

killed at harvest, vii. 290; mythical, in the corn, vii. 292; name applied to bunch of corn on harvest-field, vii. 292; sacrifice of buffalo, viii. 314; burnt alive to stop a murrain, x. 300 _sq._ _See also_ Calves

_Calica Puran_, an Indian law-book, i. 63, iv. 217

Calicut, rule of succession observed by the kings of, iv. 47 _sqq._, 206; ceremonies at sowing in, ix. 235

California, the Digger Indians of, viii. 164

——, the Karok Indians of, vi. 47, viii. 255

——, the Maidu Indians of, i. 122, 357, xi. 295, 298

——, the Nishinam tribe of, iii. 338

California, the Pomos of, ix. 170 _sq._

——, the Senal Indians of, xi. 295

——, the Yuki Indians of, i. 133

Californian Indians, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331; secrecy of personal names among the, iii. 326; names of the dead not mentioned among the, iii. 352; their custom as to meteors, iv. 62; eat pine nuts, v. 278 _n._ 2; their annual festivals of the dead, vi. 52 _sq._; their notion that the owl is the guardian of the “California big tree,” vi. 111 _n._ 1; women’s work among the Indians of San Juan Capistrano, vii. 125; their calendar, vii. 125 _sq._; their custom of killing the sacred buzzard, viii. 169 _sqq._; their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 286 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 41 _sqq._; ordeals among the, x. 64

—— missions, the Spanish, viii. 171 _n._ 1

Caligula, his barges on the lake of Nemi, i. 5; and the priest of Nemi, i. 11; and King Agrippa, ix. 418

Callander, the parish of, Beltane fires in, x. 150 _sqq._; Hallowe’en fires in, x. 231

Callaway, Rev. Henry, on chiefs as medicine-men, i. 350 _n._ 2; on the worship of the dead among the Zulus, vi. 184 _sq._; on the observation of the Pleiades by the Amazulu, vii. 316

Callias, the Eleusinian Torch-bearer, vii. 54, 73 _n._ 3

Callirrhoe, the springs of, in Moab, v. 214 _sqq._

Callo, a holy spirit among the Gallas, i. 396

Calmucks, race for bride among the, ii. 301 _sq._; divine by shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 _n._ 4 _See also_ Kalmucks

_Calotropis gigantea_, man married to, in Southern India, ii. 57 _n._ 4

—— _procera_, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 209

Calpurnius Piso, L., on the wife of Vulcan, vi. 232 _sq._

Caltanisetta, in Sicily, violence done to St. Michael at, i. 300

Calves, unborn, sacrifice of, viii. 42; burnt to stop disease in the herds, x. 301, 306. _See also_ Calf

Calycadnus River, in Cilicia, v. 167 _n._ 2

Calymnos, a Greek island, superstition as to menstruous women in, x. 96 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, x. 212

Camasene and Janus, vi. 235 _n._ 6

Cambaita, custom of religious suicide at, iv. 54

Cambodia, mode of annulling evil omens in, i. 170 _sqq._; custom as to effacing impressions of pots in ashes in, i. 214; the Chams of, i. 280; the regalia regarded as a palladium in, i. 365; human incarnations of gods in, i. 385 _sq._; special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in, i. 401 _n._ 3; Kings of Fire and Water in, ii. 3 _sqq._, iii. 17, iv. 14; the King of, sends presents to the Kings of Fire and Water, ii. 5; sacred trees in, ii. 46; use of fire kindled by lightning in, ii. 256 _n._ 1; kings of, not to be touched, iii. 226; the king of, ceremony at cutting his hair, iii. 265; kings of, their names not to be mentioned, iii. 376; annual temporary king in, iv. 148 _sq._; annual festival of the dead in, vi. 61 _sq._; the Banars of, viii. 33; vicarious use of effigies to save sick people in, viii. 103; the Stiens of, viii. 237; annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 149; palace of the kings of, annually purged of devils, ix. 172; seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 70; ritual at cutting a parasitic orchid in, xi. 81

Cambodian hunter, homoeopathic magic used by, i. 109 _sq._

—— or Siamese story of the external soul, xi. 102

Cambodians, their superstitions as to the head, iii. 254

Cambridge, the May Lady at, ii. 62; Jack-in-the-Green at, ii. 83 _n._ 1; personal relics of Kibuka, the war-god of the Baganda, preserved at, vi. 197; ancient customs in, vii. 146; Plough Monday in, viii. 330 _n._ 1; Lord of Misrule at, ix. 330

Cambridgeshire, greasing the weapon instead of the wound in, i. 203; permanent May-pole in, ii. 71 _n._ 1; the Straw-bear in, viii. 329; Plough Monday in, viii. 330 _n._ 1; witch as cat in, x. 317

Cambulac (Peking), Marco Polo as to, iii. 243 _sq._

Cambus o’ May, near Ballater, holed stone at, xi. 187

Cambyses, king of Persia, his treatment of Amasis, v. 176 _n._ 2

Camden, W., on Irish precautions against witches on May Day, ii. 53; on custom observed by the Irish when they fall, iii. 68

Camel, plague transferred to, ix. 33

Camel-races in honour of the dead, iv. 97

Camels not called by their proper name, iii. 402; infested by jinn, ix. 260

Cameron, Hugh E., on the harvest Maiden in Inverness-shire, vii. 162 _n._ 3

Cameron, V. L., on divinity claimed by an African chief, i. 395

Cameroon negroes, expiation for homicide among the, v. 299 _n._ 2

Cameroons, chiefs as fetish-men in the, i. 349; the Ngumbu of the, ii. 210; the Duala tribe of the, iv. 130 _n._ 1; the Bakundu of the, viii. 99; expulsion of the spirits of disease in the, ix. 120 _sq._; life of person bound up with tree in the, xi. 161; theory of the external soul in the, xi. 200, 202 _sq._

Camillus, his triumph, ii. 174 _n._ 2

Camomile (_Anthemis nobilis_) burnt in Midsummer fire, x. 213; sacred to Balder, xi. 63; gathered at Midsummer, xi. 63

Camp shifted after a death, iii. 353

Campbell, Rev. John, on Bechuana superstition as to trees and rain, ii. 49; on refusal of Bechuanas to tell stories before sunset, iii. 384; on Coranna treatment of the sick, xi. 192, 192 _n._ 1

Campbell, Major-General John, on Khond human sacrifices, vii. 248, 250

Campbell, Rev. J. G., on the Harvest Old Wife in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 140, 165 _sq._; on _deiseal_, x. 151 _n._

Campe, near Stade, the Fox in the corn at, vii. 296

Camphor, taboos observed in search for, i. 114 _sq._; telepathy in search for, i. 124 _sq._; special language employed by searchers for, iii. 405 _sqq._; custom observed in the search for, viii. 186 _n._

Camphor-trees, ceremonies at cutting down, iii. 406

Campo di Giove, in the Abruzzi, Easter candles at, x. 122

—— Santo at Pisa, contest between angels and devils in the, ix. 175

Camul, custom as to hospitality in, v. 39 _n._ 3

Canaanite kings of Jerusalem, v. 17

Canaanites, their custom of burning their children in honour of Baal, iv. 168

Canada, Indians of, their belief that winds are caused by a fish, i. 320; capture of souls by wizards among the, iii. 73; kept their names secret, iii. 326; their ceremony for mitigating the cold of winter, iv. 259 _sq._; kept the bones of beavers from dogs, viii. 239 _sq._; would not eat the embryos of elks from fear of offending the mother-elks, viii. 243

Cañar (Cuenca), in Ecuador, human sacrifices at harvest in, vii. 236

Canarese of South India, their euphemisms for a tiger, iii. 402

Canarium nuts, first-fruits of, offered to ghosts in Solomon Islands,