iv. 274

Chiron, the centaur, taught Hippolytus venery, i. 19

_Chirouba_, festival in Manipur, ix. 40

Chirus of Manipur, their rain-making by means of a crab, i. 289; their tug-of-war, ix. 177 _n._ 3

Chisaks, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337

Chissumpe, the spiritual head of the Maraves, i. 393

Chitariah Gossaih, god of a hill-tribe in India, viii. 118

Chitomé or Chitombé, a pontiff of Congo, his perpetual fire, ii. 261; regarded as a god on earth, iii. 5 _sq._, 7; slain by his successor, iv. 14 _sq._, 206

Chitral, devil-driving in, ix. 137

Chittagong, opening everything in house to facilitate childbirth in, iii. 297; nail knocked into threshold at a burial in, ix. 63 _n._ 4

—— Hill Tracts, the Chukmas of the, ix. 174

Chittim (Citium) in Cyprus, Phoenician kings at, v. 31

Chnum of Elephantine, Egyptian god identified with the sun, vi. 123

Choctaws, taboos observed by manslayers among the, iii. 181; their annual festival of the dead, vi. 53 _sq._; their women secluded at menstruation, x. 88

Chodoi, in Selangor, ceremony of bringing home the soul of the rice at,