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Index.
Cayote or Coyote, legend of, 206-7 \ the Mephistopheles of the Wintu;
345 Celestial and earthly offences, early Japan, periodical purification for,
305 Celtic beliefs, a duty to preserve, 86 influence on the British race, 74
literature balladless, 99, 100
migrations, 81
Central house-pillar, circumambu- lating in Japanese myth, 299, 300
Cerne, Dorset, curative wells at, 479) leather and Dowlas trade of, 479
Chain of cooking-pot, ideas con- nected with, Hebrides, 276
Chained idols, Burma, 420, India and Japan, ib.
Challenges, Indian folktales, 439
Chance words as omens, 153
Chandelier offered to a Fate, Greek Isles. 499
Changing abode, lucky day for, 267
clothes, between men and
women in unbinding spells, 160 ; on Sunday, 183
Chants, Les, et les Contes des Baronga de la Bate de Delagoa, Recueillis et transcrits par H. A. Junod, reviewed by A. Werner, 221
Charcoal, treasure-trove turning into, how to prevent, Greek Isles, 182
Charms, {see Ask,) Beast-Binding and Binding Spells, Ilebridean, {see Freer) ; against having children, 152; against Evil Eye, 275-81 ; to cure over-looked cattle, 276 ; to cure or prevent snake-bite, India, 404 ; to get free from imprisonment, 170 ; to injure women and girls, 169-70 ; Medicinal, Dislocation Spell, 331, Pleurisy charm, 331
Chastity, male and female, India, 426
Child-birth, fatal, B. Columbia, 206, Japan, 300
Child, living, buried in building, Copenhagen, 360
revivified by crocodile, S.
African folklore, 224
in unbinding spell for married
people, 158-9 unchristened, to protect against
evil spirits, 350 Children, Midnight, and their gifts,
115 ; not to sleep in waterless
house, 269; not lucky to name after those who die young, 266; switching passers-by, in Pelzenichel customs, Heidelberg, 180 ; in underwater nurseries, S. African legends, 224 ; wearing colours against Evil Eye, 152
Children's Games, 77, 336
China, ancestor-worship in, 302 ; female heirs preferred in, 229 ; " left " superior to "right" in, 302 ; myth of creation of sun and moon, 302-3 ; proverb from, 104
Christ, 469 ; Australian ideas re- sembling, 28, 52 ; colour of eyes of, 275
Christian influence on Australian beliefs, 7, 11, 22-30, 51-55 ; on Teutonic legends, 83
Christians in Socotra, 230
Christmas, (see Veilleede Noel), cake- laying on graves at, Calymnos, 180- 1
Christmas Eve, 263, children born at midnight on, their gifts. 115
Day, an unlucky birthday, 174
Mummers, (at Mullion) by
Florence Grove, 351
at Rugby, {ill.) W. H. D.
Rouse, 186
at Newboid, 187, sqq.
Christmastide customs, Heidelberg, 180
to Epiphany, Jews searching for
Moses, Cos, 176
Churinga, of Australia, 236, 383.
494
Churning, loss of butter, and cure, Wexford, 364
Circle or line, protecting, Indian folk- lore, 418
Ciresenthal, Baden, beating cattle crosswise, in spring, 180
Clatkeq, 198, sqq.
Claws of bear in magic potions, 155
Cloth blessed after cleansing, Hebrides, 261 ; pieces of, hung on trees, old Japanese myth, 306
Clothes changed in unbinding spell, 160 ; of men and women exchanged, 246 ; prohibition to change on Sun- day, 183
Cloud-compelling, 153
Club or hammer of Ukko, the Finn god, 328
Cock, the, in folklore, 182, 262-4 269, in African do., 223