viii. 126

Canary Islands, rain-making in the, by beating the sea, i. 301

Canathus, Hera’s annual bath in the spring of, v. 280

Cancer, Tropic of, vii. 125

Candaules, king of Lydia, murdered by Gyges, ii. 281; descended from Hercules, ii. 282; and the double-headed axe, v. 182, 183

Candle sent by Fire King to the King of Cambodia, ii. 5 _sq._; virginity tested by flame of, ii. 240, x. 139 _n._; the Easter or Paschal, x. 121, 122, 125; divination by the flame of a, at Hallowe’en, x. 229; the Yule or Christmas, x. 255, 256, 260; external soul in a, xi. 125 _sq._ _See also_ Candles

—— and apple, biting at, a Hallowe’en sport, x. 241, 242, 243, 245

Candlemas (February 2nd), dances at, to make flax grow tall, i. 138; Bridget’s bed on the night before, ii. 94, 242; pea-soup and pigs’ bones eaten at, vii. 300; dances for the crops at, ix. 238; Lord of Misrule at, ix. 332, 333; in the Armenian church, bonfires at, x. 131; the Yule log at, x. 256 _n._

—— candles, x. 264 _n._ 4

Candles, Catholic practice of dedicating, i. 13; magical, used by burglars to cause sleep, i. 148, 149; made of human tallow and used by thieves, i. 236; lighted, tied to sacred oak, ii. 372; twelve, on Twelfth Night, ix. 321 _sq._; burnt at the Feast of Purim, ix. 394; used to keep off witches, x. 245

Candy, sugar, in homoeopathic magic, i. 157

Canelos Indians of Ecuador, afraid of being photographed, iii. 97; their belief in the transmigration of human souls into jaguars, viii. 285

Canicular year, a Sothic period, vi. 36 _n._ 2

Cannibal banquets of the ancient Mexicans, viii. 92, ix. 279 _n._ 1, 283, 298

—— feast, legendary, at the Boeotian Orchomenus, iv. 164

—— orgies among the Indians of North-West America, vii. 18 _sqq._

—— societies in ancient Greece and Africa, iv. 83; among the Indians of North-West America, vii. 20 _sq._

—— Spirit among the Haida Indians, vii. 21

Cannibalism, in Australia, perhaps intended to ensure the reincarnation of the dead, i. 106 _sq._; at hair-cutting in Fiji, iii. 264; in certain cases perhaps intended to form a blood-covenant with the dead, viii. 156

Cannibals, taboos imposed on, among the Kwakiutl Indians, iii. 188 _sqq._; a secret society of the Kwakiutl Indians, vii. 20

Cannons, toy, as regalia, i. 364

Canoe, fish offered to, iii. 195

Canoes, continence observed at building, iii. 202

Canopus, town in Egypt, the decree of, vi. 27, 34 _n._ 1, 37 _n._, 88 _n._ 2

Canopus, star, observed by the aborigines of Victoria, vii. 308

—— and Sirius in Bushman lore, x. 333

Cantabrian coast of Spain, belief as to death at ebb-tide on the, i. 167

Cantabrians, mother-kin among the, ii. 285

Canton, the province of, the Hak-Ka in, ix. 144

——, violence done to the rain-god at, in time of drought or excessive rain, i. 299

Canute, King of England, his marriage with Emma, ii. 282 _sq._

Capaneus and Evadne, v. 177 _n._ 3

Capart, Jean, on palettes found in Egyptian tombs, xi. 155 _n._ 3

Cape Bedford in Queensland, belief of the natives as to the birth of children, v. 102

—— Coast Castle, on the Gold Coast, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 132 _sq._

—— Padron, in Guinea, priestly king near, iii. 5

—— Vancouver, iii. 228, viii. 249 _n._ 1

—— York Peninsula in Queensland, extraction of teeth among the natives of,