viii. 250;

the Tsimshian Indians of, i. 262, viii. 254; the Nootka Indians of, i. 263, iii. 27, 146 _n._ 1, viii. 225, 251; the Lillooet Indians of, i. 265; the Shuswap Indians of, i. 265, 319, iii. 83, 142, 146 _n._ 1, viii. 238; the Skungen Indians of, ii. 32; the Bella Coola Indians of, iii. 34, x. 46, xi. 174; the Nass River in, iii. 76; the Carrier Indians of, iii. 197, 367; the Tsetsaut Indians of, iii. 198, 260; the Tinneh or Déné Indians of, iii. 240; the Kutonaqa of, iv. 183; the coast tribes of, their ceremonial cannibalism, vii. 18 _sqq._; the Koskimo of, vii. 20 _n._; the Nishga Indians of, viii. 106; the Okanaken Indians of, viii. 134

Columbia River, the Indians of, their customs in regard to the first salmon caught in the season, viii. 255

Columella, on chastity to be observed by those who handle food, ii. 205; on the date for the fertilization of fig-trees, ii. 314; on the fodder of cattle, ii. 328 _n._ 1; on caprification, ix. 258

Comana in Cappadocia, v. 136 _n._ 1

—— in Pontus, worship of goddess Ma at, v. 39, ix. 421 _n._ 1; swine not allowed to enter, v. 265 _n._ 1; sacred harlots at, ix. 370 _n._ 1

Comana, the two cities, v. 168 _n._ 6

Comanches, the, their way of procuring rain or sunshine, i. 297; changes in their language caused by fear of naming the dead, iii. 360

Combat, mortal, for the kingdom, ii. 322

Combe, in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62 _n._ 2

Combe d’Ain, x. 114

Combing the hair forbidden, i. 157, iii. 14, 159 _n._, 181, 187, 203, 208, 264; thought to cause storms, iii. 271

_Combretum primigenum_, the sacred tree of the Herero, ii. 213, 218

Combs not to be used by wives during absence of camphor hunters, i. 125; in homoeopathic magic, i. 125, 157; used by girls in their seclusion at puberty, iii. 146 _n._ 1; of sacred persons, iii. 256

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

Comitium, dances of the Salii in the, ix. 232

Commagny, the priory of, i. 307

Commemoration of the Dead at Athens, v. 234

Comminges, Midsummer fires in, x. 192 _sq._

Commodus, the Emperor, conspiracy against, v. 273; addicted to the worship of Isis, vi. 118

Common objects, names of, changed when they coincide more or less with those of relations, iii. 335, 336, 337, 338, 339 _sq._, 340, 341, 345, 346; changed when they are the names of the dead, iii. 358 _sqq._, 375; or the names of chiefs and kings, iii. 375, 376 _sqq._

—— words tabooed, iii. 392 _sqq._

Communal rights over women, v. 40, 61 _n._

—— taboos, vii. 109 _n._ 2

Communion with demons by drinking blood, i. 383; with deity in Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 38, 161; with deity by eating of new fruits, viii. 83; with the dead through food, viii. 154; with the dead by swallowing their ashes, viii. 156 _sqq._; with deity by eating his body and drinking his blood, viii. 325; with saints, alive or dead, by means of stones, ix. 21 _sq._

Communion bread baked from the first corn cut, viii. 51

Communism, tradition of sexual, ii. 284

Community, welfare of, bound up with the life of the divine king, x. 1 _sq._; purified in the persons of its representatives, xi. 24

Comorin, Cape, iv. 46

Compelling rain-gods to give rain, i. 296 _sqq._

Compitalia, a Roman festival, effigies dedicated at, viii. 94, 96, 107

Complexity of social phenomena, i. 332; of religious phenomena, viii. 36

Compromise of Christianity with paganism, parallel with Buddhism, v. 310 _sqq._

Comrie, well of St. Fillan at, ii. 161

Con or Cun, a thunder-god of the Indians of the Andes, ii. 370

Conca d’Oro at Palermo, i. 299

Concealment from superstitious motives at eating and drinking, iii. 116 _sqq._; of the face or person from superstitious motives, iii. 120 _sqq._; of miscarriage in childbed, supposed effects of, iii. 152 _sqq._, 211, 213; of cut hair and nails to prevent them from falling into the hands of sorcerers, iii. 276 _sqq._; of personal names from fear of magic, iii. 320 _sqq._; of graves, vi. 103 _sqq._, viii. 98 _sqq._

Conception in women, supposed causes of, i. 100, v. 96, 102, 103, 104, 105; caused by trees, ii. 51, 56 _sq._, 316-318; supposed, without sexual intercourse, v. 91, 93 _n._ 2, 96 _sqq._, 264,