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Index.
Chakmas : marriage custom, 8i Chamois : one-eyed apparition,
Swiss, 274 Chanda : lires, Holi, 57, 60, 75 Changelings : Ireland, 325, 328-9,
331 Channel Islands : {see also Guern- sey ; Jersey); megaliths, 411; witchcraft, 29-30 Chapogirs, 45
Charms and spells : {see also Amu- lets and talismans ; Divination ; Spitting) ;
against : — barrenness, India, 153-4 ; cramp, Kent, 367 ; diseases, Nigeria, 405, Pemba, 395 ; evil eye. White Ruthen- ians, 95 ; evil spirits, Nigeria, 405 ; fear. White Ruthenians, 95-6; ghost, Waterford, 229; being lost, Waterford, 231 ; love trouble. White Ruthen- ians, 96 ; rickets, Jersey, 248 ; scrofula, Jersey, 251 ; stye in eye, Cambs, 365 ; swine sick- ness, Germany, 66 ; theft, Nigeria, 405, Pemba, 395 ; toothache, Suffolk, 365 ; un- lucky sights, Kent, 367 ; witchcraft, Aberdeensh., 344; in childbed. Mayo, 341, Scot, etc., 385 ; for crossing rivers, Assam etc., 493 ; in funeral procession, Aberdeensh., 347 ; to bring guests, Morocco, 502 ; for lifelong luck, Cambs, 365 ; for love, W'hite Ruthenians, 100, 102, 106-7 ; to get money, Cambs, 365 ; Provencal, 144 ; to get rain, India, 80, Morocco, 502 ; to make child robust. Piedmont, 279 ; after spilling salt, Cambs, 365 Chastity : Alain's Religious Chas- tity reviewed, 395-7 ; tests, 131 Chatham : St. Katharine's Day,
294 Cheescakes : at feast, Yorks, 376 Chennapatna : hook-swinging, 169 Cherry : in souling rhyme, Salop
and Staffs, 289 Cherry-tree : in rhjones, Aber- deen, 355 Cheshire : November customs,
285-99 {map) Chess : in tale, E. Africa, 465-6
Chestnut : divination by, Sussex, 369
Chevauchee de St. Michel in the Island of Guernsey, La, by E. Care)', 281, 411-27 {pi.)
Cheyenne : miracle, 494
Chhindwara : hook s\ringing, 69
Chicken : primroses bring ill-luck to, Sussex, 369
Childbirth, see Birth
Childhood of the World, The, by E. Clodd, noticed, 407
Children : {see also Baptism ; Birth customs and beliefs ; Games ; Twins) ; goddess of, India, 154
Chili-tree : in purification rite, Gilgit, 393
Chiltem Hills : " cuckoo pens," 390
Chimneysweepers : lucky, 382
Chingleput : hook-swinging, 165-6
Chitpavans : marriage custom, 196
Chocktaw : tale, 481-2
Cholera : goddess of, India, 154 ; hook-swinging against, India, 164, 170; tale of origin of, Assam, 484-5
Chota Nagpur, see Manbhum
Christening, see Baptism
Christmas Day : omen, Sussex, 368
Christmas Eve : cattle. kneel, Sus- sex, 368 ; customs, Yorks, 376-7
Christmastide : {see also Christmas Day ; Christmas Eve ) ; cake, Yorks, 377 ; sword dances, Yorks, 376 ; trees and boughs, 386 ; The V\'ild Huntsman and Yule-Tide, by M. Peacock, 385-6
Chukchis : 43 ; ceremonials, 48 ; clan organization, 53 ; culture, 40-1 ; spirits, 50, 52
Churches : relation to temples, Greece, 130
Churching of women, see Birth
Church porch : St. Mark's Eve custom, Yorks, 376
Churning customs and beliefs : Jersey, 245
Chuwanzes, 44
Cicatrization: Bushongo, 450, 454; myth of origin, Bushongo, 450
Cinderella type of folk-tales, 271
Cinnamon : in folk-medicine, Jer- sey, 249
Circumcision : origin of, Bushongo, 443
