ix. 336, 337

Childless couples leap over bonfires to procure offspring, x. 214, 338

—— persons named after their younger brothers, iii. 332, 333

—— women divorced, i. 142; their corpses thrown away, i. 142; homoeopathic charm employed by, to ensure the birth of children, i. 157; expect offspring from St. George, v. 78; resort to Baths of Solomon, v. 78; receive offspring from serpent, v. 86; resort to graves in order to secure offspring, v. 96; resort to hot springs in Syria, v. 213 _sqq._; creep through a holed stone, xi. 187. _See also_ Barren

Children thought to be reincarnations of the dead, i. 103 _sqq._; taboos observed by, in the absence of their fathers, i. 116, 119, 122, 123, 127, 131; homoeopathic charm to ensure the birth of, i. 157; born with a caul thought to be lucky and to see spirits, i. 187 _sq._, 199; buried to the neck as a rain-charm, i. 302 _sq._; dislike of parents to have children like themselves, iii. 88 _sq._, iv. 287 (288, in Second Impression); young, tabooed, iii. 262, 283; parents named after their, iii. 331 _sqq._, 339; called the fathers or mothers of their first cousins, iii. 332 _sq._; sacrificed to Moloch, iv. 75; sacrificed by the Semites, iv. 166 _sqq._; bestowed by saints, v. 78 _sq._; given by serpent, v. 86; murdered that their souls may be reborn in barren women, v. 95; sacrificed to volcano in Siao, v. 219; sacrificed at irrigation channels, vi. 38; sacrificed by the Mexicans for the maize, vi. 107; presented to the moon, vi. 144 _sqq._; guarded against evil spirits, vii. 6 _sqq._; employed to administer drugs and the poison ordeal, vii. 115; employed to sow seed, vii. 115 _sq._; sacrificed at harvest, vii. 236; blood of, used to knead a paste, ix. 129; personating spirits, ix. 139; live apart from their parents among the Baganda, x. 23 _n._ 2; passed across the Midsummer fires, x. 182, 189 _sq._, 192, 203; born feet foremost, curative power attributed to, x. 295; passed through holes in ground or turf to cure them, xi. 190 _sq._ _See also_ Child

—— of God in Kikuyu, v. 68

—— of living parents in ritual, vi. 236 _sqq._; apparently thought to be endowed with more vitality than others, vi. 247 _sq._

——, new-born, brought to the spirits of the ancestors, ii. 216, 221; passed through the smoke of a fire, ii. 232; brought to the hearth, ii. 232; placed in winnowing-fans, vii. 6 _sqq._

Children’s nails not pared, iii. 262 _sq._

_Chili_, sacred cedar among the Aryan tribes of Gilgit, ii. 49, 50 _sq._

Chili stone, ceremony of fertilizing goats at the, ii. 51

Chili, the Chilote Indians of, i. 168; the Araucanians of, i. 292 _n._ 3, iii. 97; disposal of shorn hair in, iii. 280; earthquakes in, v. 202

Chillingworth, Thomas, passed through a cleft ash-tree for rupture, xi. 168 _sq._

Chiloe, the Indians of, keep their names secret, iii. 324

Chilote Indians of Chili, their belief as to death at ebb-tide, i. 168; their magical use of shorn hair, iii. 268; make magic with the spittle of an enemy, iii. 287

Chimaera, Mount, in Lycia, perpetual fire on, v. 221

Chimché-gelin, rain-bride, in Armenia, i. 276

Chimney, witches fly up the, xi. 74

Chimney-piece, divination by names on, x. 237

China, homoeopathic magic of city sites in, i. 169 _sq._; birthday celebration in, i. 169; trees planted on graves in, ii. 31; new-born children passed through the smoke of fire in, ii. 232 _n._ 2; custom as to shadows at funerals in, iii. 80; custom at an execution in, iii. 171; geomancy in, iii. 239; suicide of Buddhist monks in, iv. 42; substitutes for corporal punishment in, iv. 275 _sq._; ceremony at beginning of spring in, viii. 10 _sqq._; belief in demons in, ix. 99; men possessed by spirits in, ix. 117; annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 145 _sqq._; annual ceremony of the new fire in, x. 136 _sq._, xi. 3; were-wolves in, x. 310 _sq._; use of fire to bar ghosts in, xi. 17 _sq._; spirits of plants in snake form in, xi. 44 _n._ 1; use of mugwort in, xi. 60. _See also_ Chinese

——, aboriginal tribes of, their use of a human scapegoat, ix. 196; their annual destruction of evils, ix. 202

——, Emperor of, superior to the gods, i. 416 _sq._; seldom quitted his palace, iii. 125; his directions for averting the devil, iii. 239; his name not to be pronounced nor written by his subjects, iii. 375 _sq._; etiquette at his court, iv. 40; funeral of, v. 294; inaugurates the ploughing in spring, viii. 14 _sq._

——, emperors of, as priests, i. 47; held responsible for drought, i. 355

——, the Miotse of, ix. 4

——, the Mossos of, ix. 139

——, South and West, the Miao-Kia of, ii. 31

——, Southern, expulsion of the demons of cholera in, ix. 117 _sq._; the Shans of, ix. 141

Chinchvad, human gods at, i. 405 _sq._

Chinese, magical images among the, i. 60 _sq._; their charms to ensure long life, i. 168 _sq._; their superstition as to placenta (afterbirth), i. 194; their belief as to the influence of the dead on rain, i. 287; their modes of compelling the rain-god to give rain, i. 297 _sqq._; their emperor responsible for drought, i. 355; their belief in spirits of plants, ii. 14; their custom of marrying a girl to the Yellow River, ii. 152; kindle a sacred fire by means of a metal mirror or burning-glass, ii. 245 _n._; their story of a wandering human soul and its deserted body, iii. 49 _sq._; attribute convulsions to the action of demons, iii. 59; their use of mirrors to frighten demons, iii. 93 _n._ 3; use no knives nor needles after a death, iii. 238; their belief as to the intimate association of names with beings, iii. 390; their indifference to death, iv. 144 _sqq._, 273 _sqq._; report a custom of devouring first-born children, iv. 180; their character compared to that of the ancient Egyptians, vi. 218; their use of sieve or winnowing-fan in superstitious rites, vii. 6, 9 _sq._; their ceremony of ploughing, viii. 14 _sq._; their theory as to courage, viii. 145 _sq._, 152; their ceremonies of purification in spring and autumn, ix. 213 _n._ 1; their festival of fire, ix. 359, xi. 3 _sqq._; their story of the external soul, xi. 145 _sq._; their theories as to the human soul, xi. 221

Chinese of Amoy averse to call fever by its proper name, iii. 400; their use of effigies to divert ghostly and other evil influences from persons, viii. 104 _sq._

Chinese author on disturbance of earth-spirits by agriculture, v. 89

—— books, bleeding trees in, ii. 18

—— comedies played as a rain-charm, i. 301 _n._

—— empire, incarnate human gods in the, i. 412 _sqq._

—— geomancy, i. 170

—— New Year, viii. 10

—— writers on kings of Corea, i. 355; as to injury to men and birds through their shadows, iii. 79; as to blood containing the soul, iii. 241; profess themselves unable to distinguish between men and animals, viii. 206

Chingilli, an Australian tribe, their custom of knocking out teeth, i. 99

Chinigchinich, a Californian god, viii. 170

Chinna Kimedy, in India, vii. 247, 249

Chinook Indians, prohibition to mention the names of the dead among the,