iii. 350

Coulommiers, in France, notion as to mistletoe at, xi. 316 _n._ 1

Counter-charm for witchcraft, “scoring above the breath,” x. 316 _n._ 2

Couples married within the year obliged to dance by torchlight, x. 115, 339

Coupling ewes and rams, the time for, ii. 328, 328 _n._ 4

Couppé, Mgr., on the belief in demons in New Britain, ix. 82

Courage acquired by eating the flesh of fierce beasts, viii. 140, 141 _sqq._; seated in gall-bladder, viii. 145 _sq._; acquired by eating the flesh or drinking the blood of brave men, viii. 148 _sqq._

Court etiquette, iv. 39 _sq._

Courtiers required to imitate their sovereign, iv. 39 _sq._

Cousins, male and female, not allowed to mention each other’s names, iii. 344

Couteau or Knife Indians, viii. 227 _n._

Covenant formed by eating together, iii. 130; formed by mixing the blood of the covenanting parties, iii. 130; spittle used in making a, iii. 290

Coventry, Midsummer giants at, xi. 37

Covering up mirrors at a death, iii. 94 _sq._

Cow bewitched, iii. 93; ceremony of rebirth from a golden, iii. 113; as symbol of the moon, iv. 71 _sq._; image of, in the rites of Osiris, vi. 50, 84; Isis represented with the head of a, vi. 50; thought to be impregnated by moonshine, vi. 130 _sq._; in calf treated like woman in childbed, vii. 33; corn-spirit as, vii. 288 _sqq._

Cow, black, in rain-charm, i. 290

——, white, with red ears, used in expiation, ii. 116

Cow-goddess Shenty, vi. 88

—— -headed women, statuettes of, found at Lycosura, viii. 21 _n._ 4

Cow’s hide, thresher of last corn wrapt in, vii. 291; custom of beating the, on Hogmanay, viii. 322 _sqq._

Cowboy of the king of Unyoro, taboos observed by the, iii. 159 _n._

Cows, the afterbirths of, how treated, i. 198 _sq._; charm to increase the milk of, i. 198 _sq._; milked as a rain-charm, i. 284; washed in dew on Midsummer morning, ii. 127; pregnant, sacrificed to the Earth Goddess, ii. 229; milked through a ring as a precaution against witchcraft, iii. 314 _sq._; sacred to Isis, vi. 50; milked by women, vii. 118; the Hindoo worship of, viii. 37; and their milk, superstitions as to, viii. 84 _ns._ 1 and 2; bewitched on Walpurgis Night, ix. 162; as scapegoats, ix. 193, 216; witches steal milk from, x. 343; mistletoe given to, xi. 86; milked through a hole in a branch or a “witch’s nest,” xi. 185

Coyohuacan, city of Mexico, paste idol eaten by warriors in, viii. 91

Coyote not to be named by children in winter, iii. 399

Crab in rain-charm, i. 289

Crabs used to extract vicious propensity, ix. 34; change their skin, ix. 303

Crackers ignited to expel demons, ix. 117, 146 _sq._; burnt to frighten ghosts, xi. 17, 18

Crackling of grain in fire a sign that the dead are eating it, viii. 65

Cracow, customs as to the last sheaf in the district of, vii. 145; Midsummer fires in the district of, x. 175

Craig, Captain Wolsey, on unlucky marriages in Barar, ii. 57 _n._ 4

Crane, emblem of longevity, i. 169 _n._ 1; dance called the, iv. 75

Cranes, trumpeting of the, signal for ploughing, vii. 45; their seasons of migration, vii. 45 _n._ 1

Cranganore in Cochin, shrine of the goddess Bhagavati at, i. 280

Crannogs or lake-dwellings in the British Islands, ii. 352

Crannon, in Thessaly, rain-making by means of a chariot at, i. 309; coins of, i. 309 _n._ 6

Crassus, Publicius Licinius, funeral games in his honour, iv. 96

Crawfish in homoeopathic magic, i. 156; worshipped by Indians of Peru, viii. 250

Crawley, E., on the external soul in the placenta and navel-string, i. 201 _n._ 1

Cream, ceremony for thickening, x. 262

Cream-bowl wreathed with hawthorn in bloom on May morning, ii. 52

Creation, myths of, iv. 106 _sqq._; Babylonian legend of, iv. 106, 110

—— of the world thought to be annually repeated, v. 284; legends of, influenced by human sacrifices, ix. 409 _sqq._

Creator, the grave of the, iv. 3; beheaded, ix. 410; sacrifices himself daily to create the world afresh, ix. 411

Creek Indians of North America, their tradition of the first fire, ii. 256 _n._ 2; taboos imposed on lads at initiation among the, iii. 156; their mortification of themselves in war, iii. 161 _sqq._; the _busk_ or festival of first-fruits among the, viii. 72 _sqq._; their belief in the homoeopathic magic of the flesh of animals, viii. 139; their dread of menstruous women, x. 88

—— Town, in Guinea, periodic expulsion of demons at, ix. 204 _n._ 1

Creepers, homoeopathic magic of, i. 145

Creeping through an arch as a cure, ix. 55; through a tunnel as a remedy for an epidemic, x. 283 _sq._; through cleft trees as cure for various maladies, xi. 170 _sqq._; through narrow openings in order to escape ghostly pursuers, xi. 177 _sqq._

Crescent-shaped chest in the rites of Osiris, vi. 85, 130

Crests of the Cilician pirates, v. 149

Cretan festival of Dionysus, vii. 14 _sq._; of Hermes, ix. 350

—— myth of the murder of Dionysus, vii. 13

Crete, milk-stones in, i. 165; precinct of Dictaean Zeus in, ii. 122; sacrifices without the use of iron in, iii. 226 _sq._; grave of Zeus in, iv. 3; sacred trees and pillars in, v. 107 _n._ 2; ancient seat of worship of Demeter, vii. 131; pig not eaten in, viii. 21 _n._ 1

Creuse and Corrèze, departments of, St. John’s fires in the, x. 190

Crevaux, J., on stinging with ants as a ceremony, iii. 105

Crianlarich, in Strath Fillan, the harvest _Cailleach_ at, vii. 166

Cricket, soul in form of, iii. 39 _n._ 1

Crickets in homoeopathic magic, i. 156

Cries of reapers, vii. 263 _sqq._

Crimea, the Karaits of the, iii. 95; the Taurians of the, v. 294

Crimes, sticks or stones piled on the scene of, ix. 13 _sqq._

Criminals shaved as a mode of purification, iii. 287; sacrificed, iv. 195, ix. 354, 396 _sq._, 408; shorn to make them confess, xi. 158 _sq._

Cripple or Lame Goat at harvest in Skye, vii. 284

Crnagora, divination on St. George’s morning in, ii. 345

Croatia, souls of witches said to pass into trees in, ii. 32; Good Friday custom in, ix. 268; Midsummer fires in, x. 178

Croats of Istria, “Sawing the Old Woman” among the, iv. 242; their belief as to the activity of witches on Midsummer Eve, xi. 75

Crocodile not to be met or seen by people of the crocodile clan, viii. 28; supposed to be born as the twin of a human child, viii. 212; clay image of, as a protection against mice, viii. 279; a Batta totem, xi. 223

Crocodile-catchers, rules observed by, viii. 209 _sq._

—— clan of the Dinka, iv. 31

—— -shaped hero, in Yam, v. 139 _n._ 1

Crocodiles, Malay magic to catch, i. 110 _sq._; girls sacrificed to, ii. 152; not called by their proper names, iii. 401, 403, 410, 411, 415 _sq._; ancestral spirits in, viii. 123; hunted by savages for their flesh, viii. 208 _n._ 2; often spared by savages out of respect, viii. 208 _sqq._; ceremonies observed at catching, viii. 209 _sqq._; kinship of men with, viii. 212 _sq._, 214 _sq._; men sacrificed to, viii. 213; inspired human medium of, viii. 213; temple dedicated to, viii. 213; respected in Africa and Madagascar, viii. 213 _sqq._; sacred at Dix Cove, viii. 287; souls of the dead in, viii. 289, 290, 291, 295; fat of, x. 14; lives of persons bound up with those of, xi. 201, 202, 206, 209; external human souls in, xi. 207, 209

Croesus, king of Lydia, his war with the Persians, ii. 316; captures Pteria, v. 128; the burning of, v. 174 _sqq._, 179, ix. 391; his burnt offerings to Apollo at Delphi, v. 180 _n._ 1; dedicates golden lion at Delphi, v. 184; his son Atys, v. 286

Crofts, W. C., on Whitsuntide Bride in Norway, ii. 92 _n._ 4

Cromarty Firth, words tabooed by fishermen of the, iii. 394

Cromer, Martin, on the Lithuanian worship of fire, ii. 366 _n._ 2

Cromm Cruach, a legendary Irish idol, iv. 183

Cronia, a Greek festival resembling the Saturnalia, ix. 351; at Olympia, ix. 352 _sq._

Cronion, a Greek month, vi. 238, viii. 7, 8 _n._ 1, ix. 351 _n._ 2

Cronius, Mount, at Olympia, sacrifice at the spring equinox on, i. 46 _n._ 4

Cronus, an older god in Greece than Zeus, ii. 323; buried in Sicily, iv. 4; his sacrifice of his son, iv. 166, 179; his treatment of his father and children, iv. 192; his marriage with his sister Rhea, iv. 194; identified with the Phoenician El, v. 166; castrates his father Uranus and is castrated by his son Zeus, v. 283; name applied to winter, vi. 41; and the Cronia, ix. 351 _sq._; his sacred hill at Olympia, ix. 352; and the Golden Age, ix. 353; and human sacrifice, ix. 353 _sq._, 397; cakes offered to, x. 153 _n._ 3

Crook and scourge or flail, the emblems of Osiris, vi. 108, 153, compare 20

Crooke, Rev. Mr., missionary in Tahuata, i. 387 _n._ 1

Crooke, W., i. 406 _n._ 1, iv. 53 _n._ 1, vii. 234 _n._ 2, viii. 56 _n._ 3; on marriage to trees in India, ii. 57 _n._ 4; on local gods served by aboriginal priests in India, ii. 288 _n._ 1; on temporary substitutes for the Shah of Persia, iv. 157 _n._ 5, 159 _n._ 1; on sacred dancing-girls, v. 65 _n._ 1; on Mohammedan saints, v. 78 _n._ 2; on infant burial, v. 93 _sq._; on the custom of the False Bride, vi. 262 _n._ 2; on Bhumiya, viii. 118 _n._; as to use of spindle in ritual, viii. 119 _n._ 5

Crop supposed to be spoilt if a man were to name his father and mother,