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Index.
Christianity, its effect on Irish sagas,
239 Christmas, hirings at, 315 ^
, prophetic superstition at, in
Inverness- shire, 276 Church-porch, Slavene belief that if bride reaches before groom, she is supreme, 460
Chuvash marriage customs, similar- ity of to Mordvin, 455 ; driving with presents, custom of the, 456 Cinderella, tales, see " Cap o' Rushes," "Fair, Brown and Trembling," " Rashin Coatie." Cleonse, sacrifice upon hailstorms at,
161 Clodd (Edward), ". What's in a
Name," (letter), 272-274 Cloth, Manchu custom of holding up
to ward off evil spirits, 487 Clouston (W.A), " Story of the Frog- Prince," 493-506
Club, family preserved at East Goth- land, 203
Coat o' Clay, folk-tale, 305-310 Coca-nut, used as water-bottle in
New Guinea, 77
Cock, used to avert wind, 163 ; crow- ing after noon bad omen, 276 ; years before marriage decided by crowing of, 276
Coins, evidence of Greek trade with Britain from, 98 ; Greek types dis- covered in Britain, 100, 1U3 Communal feast, remnant of, at St. Briavels, 224-225
Slav marriage, 471-473
Conaire, descent of, from a bird, 10 Conception from eating seeds (Badu legend), 50 ; from sea foam (Finn legend), 331
Coneely, clan, totemism among, 11 Conjuror, A Welsh, 131-133 Contes Moralises de Nicole Bozon
(Review), 270-271 Copper, Finnish magic songs of origin
of, 348
Corcyra, May festival in, 520 Corfu, flower festival at, 518 Corn, Finnish charm for destroying
rust in, 18
Cornsheaf, Cornish harvest custom with, 280 ; attempt to drench with water, 280 Cornwall, ancient tin mining in, 82
, fairy punishment tale, 210
, giant legends in, 321
, harvest customs in, 280
, subdivision of land in, 200
Cossacks, licentious festivals of, 468 ;
exogamy among, 475 Coventry, Godiva legend at, 215 ;
size of, in tenth century, 216 ; fair
of, 217 ; procession at, 217 Crackernuts, Story of Kate (Orkney
folk-tale), 299-301 Cranmere Pool, fairy legends of,
212-213
Creative Name, the secret, 273 Croatia, custom of '" Otmitza " in,
476
Cuculin (West Highland tale), 257 Culture-heros, New Guinean, 80,
191-192, 193-194 Cups, alternate drinking of Manchu
bride and groom from same, 491 Curative charm, Finnish, 18 Cures, fairy, 301 Curiosity, punishment for, in pixy
story, 208, 210, 214 Curses, English peasant belief in, 324 Czechs, immorality of early, 466
D ALTON, haunted barn at, 131 Damaras, footprint superstition
among, 158 Dance festivals of natives of Torres
Straits, 79
Danish fairy punishment tales, 211. Darmesteter (James), et Augusts
Earth, " How they Met Them- selves," 227-233
Dartmoor. See " Cranmere Pool" Daughters of King O'Hara, 256 ; of
King of the East, 257 Dead, why the spirits of, go to Kibuka
(Mabuiag legend), 55-56 , belief in the Torres Straits
that spirits of, go westward, 77 -, beliefs that earthquakes are
caused by, 150 Death presaged by man meeting him- self, 228, 229
Deerpark (Sligo), Druids' altar at, 244, Denbighshire assizes, trial of conjuror
at, 131 Derbyshire, hiring times in, 315 ;
well-dressing in, 316 Devil, Finnish beliefs concerning, 32-
33
Devil's Bridge legend, 524 Devonshire, coins of Greek type found
in, 100 harvest custom, 280 ; pixy
story, 207-208 Diseases, cured by divination in
Wales, 132 Divination by skulls, 67, 80
