ix. 174

Chunar, in Bengal, rain-making ceremony t, i. 283

Church, the Christian, borrows the festival of Christmas from the worship of Mithra, v. 303 _sqq._; its compromise with paganism, v. 308; its treatment of witches, xi. 42. _See also_ Catholic

Church bells a protection against witch-craft, ix. 157, 158; on Midsummer Eve, custom as to ringing, xi. 47 _sq._; rung to drive away witches, xi. 73

Churches used as places of divination at Hallowe’en, x. 229

_Churinga_, sacred stick and stones, resembling bull-roarers, of the Arunta and other Central Australian tribes, i. 88, 199, 335, xi. 218 _n._ 3, 234

_Churn_, last corn cut, vii. 151, 153, 154 _sq._

Churn wreathed with rowan on May Day, ii. 53

Churn-dashers ridden by witches, ix. 160

—— -staff made of rowan as a protection against witchcraft, ii. 53, 54

Churning, precaution against witches in, ii. 53 _n._ 1

Chuwash, their test of a sacrificial victim, i. 385

Chuzistan, rumour of the death of the King of the Jinn in, iv. 8

Chwolsohn, D., on the worship of Haman, ix. 366 _n._ 1

Ciallos, intercalary month of Gallic calendar, ix. 343

Cicero invited to meet the assassin Brutus, i. 5; at Cybistra, v. 122 _n._ 3; corresponds with Cilician king, v. 145 _n._ 2; on the Attic origin of corn, vii. 58; on transubstantiation, viii. 167; on the custom of knocking in a nail annually, ix. 67 _n._ 2

Cieza de Leon on the Peruvian Vestals, ii. 244 _n._ 1 245 _n._

Cilicia, male deity of, assimilated to Zeus, v. 118 _sq._, 144 _sqq._, 148, 152; kings of, their affinity to Sandan, v. 144; names of priests in, v. 144; pirates in, v. 149; goddesses in, v. 161 _sqq._; the burning of gods in, v. 170 _sq._; the Assyrians in, v. 173; Tarsus in, ix. 388, 389, 391

Cilicia, Western or Rugged, described, v. 148 _sqq._; fossils of, v. 152 _sq._

Cilician Gates, pass of the, v. 120

Cimbrians, the, take arms against the tide, i. 331 _n._ 3

Ciminian forest, ii, 8

Cincius Alimentus, L., on Maia as the wife of Vulcan, vi. 232

Cinet or sinnet, iii. 69 _n._ 3

Cingalese (Cinglese), their fear of demons, ix. 95; the tug-of-war among the, ix. 181. _See also_ Singhalese

Cingalese remedy by means of devil-dancers, ix. 38

Cinteotl or Centeotl, Mexican goddess of maize, vii. 176, ix. 286 _n._ 1; personated by a priest, ix. 290

Cinyrads, dynasty of the, v. 41 _sqq._

Cinyras, the father of Adonis, v. 13, 14, 49; king of Byblus, v. 27; founds sanctuary of Astarte, v. 28; said to have instituted religious prostitution, v. 41, 50; his daughters, v. 41, 50; his riches, v. 42; his incest, v. 43; wooed by Aphrodite, v. 48 _sq._; meaning of the name, v. 52; the friend of Apollo, v. 54; legends of his death, v. 55

Ciotat in Provence, bathing at Midsummer at, v. 248; Midsummer rites of fire and water at, x. 194

Circassia, custom as to pear-trees in, ii. 55 _sq._; games in honour of the dead in, iv. 98

Circe, the land of, ii. 188

Circensian games at Bovillae, ii. 180 _n._

Circumambulating fields with lighted torches, x. 233 _sq._

Circumcision, pretence of new birth at, i. 76, 96 _sq._; among the aborigines of Australia, i. 92 _sqq._; uses of blood shed at, i. 92, 94 _sq._, iii. 244; among the dwarf tribes of the Gaboon, i. 95 _n._ 4; suggested origin of, i. 96 _sq._; in Central Australia, i. 204, 208, iii. 244, xi. 227 _sq._, 233, 234, 235; among the Caffres, iii. 156 _sq._; performed with flints, not iron, iii. 227; of father as a mode of redeeming his offspring, iv. 181; story told by Israelites to explain the origin of, iv. 181; mimic rite of, iv. 219 _sq._; exchange of dress between men and women at, vi. 263; period of seclusion after, determined by the appearance of the Pleiades,