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Index.

Burrel Green : luck dish, 173 Bushmen : folklore, 13 ; in Korana

m>th, 253 Bute county, see Arran Butterfly : expulsion ceremony, Feb.

22, Westphalia, 263, 271 ; first

killed or freed for luck, 277-8 ;

wings as fairy clothes, Ireland, 442 Butter lamps, Tibet, 3 Byamee, see Baiame

Cadenham oak, New Forest, 311

Cadiz : eyes painted on boats, 463

Caeilte, 170

Cael O'Neamhain, 170- 1

Cailte of the Fianna, 436

Cairbre, King, see King Cairbre

Cairene Folklore, III, by A. H.

Sayce, 130, 191-200 Cairns : Thorgerd the maid of the

cairn, worshipped, 405-6 Cairo : Cairene Folklore, III, by

Prof. A. H. Sayce, 130, 191-200 Cairpre, son of Ogma, 29 Caithness-shire : holed stones, 7 Cakes: "Thor," Lancashire, 2, 7;

wedding. Great Russia &c., 282-4 Caledvwlch, Gawain's sword, 343 Calf: {see also Cattle) ; dedicated to

Thor, Floamanna saga, 391 ; ghost

reincarnated in, Iceland, 412 Calraighe Laithim : in poem, 34 Cambria : prince always subject to

bishop, 329-30 Cambridge : cat's cradle, 84-5 Cambridgeshire, see Cambridge ; and

Ful bourn Camelot : in Arthurian legends, 338 Campagna, Roman : amulet, 462 Campania, see Capua Campbell : Clan descends from Diar-

muid,452, and crest inraemoryof,452 Campbelton : game, 105 Camperdown (Natal), see Amafunze

tribe ; atid Inadi tribe Camulos, Celtic deity, 428 Candle, wax, blessed by Pope, Easter,

470 Candlemas : bonfires, 325 Candlemas Eve, see St Brigit's Festival Cannibalism : in folktales, 504 ; in

Jatakas, 499 Canton Grisons : string trick, 373 Capua : St Ruffus, 333 Carayas : figure on gables, 268 Carbury Hill : Trinity well, source of

Boyne, 31

Cardwell : tribal All-Father, 175

Carinthia, see Slovenians

Carlow, see Barrow river ; and

Rathvilly Carmarthenshire : {see also Cynwyl

Gaeo) ; Roman inscriptions, 38 Carnarvonshire, see Beddgelert ; and

Snowdon Carniola, see Slovenians Carnival : buried or cast out in effigy

&c., 258 Carnock : ash-tree, 63 Caroline islands, see Uap island Carpentaria, Gulf of: tribal beliefs,

178 Carrowmore : battle of Northern

Moytura, 209 Carthaginians : eyes painted on boats,

463

Cassibellaun, King, see King Cas- sibellaun

Castor, see Dioscuri

Cat: buried in cornfield &c., Christ- mas Eve, Bohemia, 277 ; cast from high place annually, 270 ; cooked for newly married, La Creuse, 283 ; driving out devil as, Es- thonia, 263 ; in marriage customs, Poland &c., 281 ; thrown into new house, 265-6, 281 ; skin of native cat on emblematic stick, Zulu wedding, 476 ; thrown out of gales, Kirmess, Holland, 270, or from height, Belgium &c., 276, or through broken window, Poland, 281

Catalonia, see Barcelona

Catamenia, amulets for use in, Italy and Spain, 468 {plate), Pliny, 465

Cathair, King, sec King Cathair

Cat's Cradle, by W. Innes Pocock, 73-93 {illustrations)

Cattle: {see also "SimW ; Calf; Cow; andO^); blood sprinkled on temple and people, Scandinavia, 420 ; cattle kraal as burying place, Zulus, 484 ; connected with Nuada &c., 45, 47 ; driven between fires, Beltane, Ireland, 30, 45 ; murrain averted by casting victim over pre- cipice, Wales, 276 ; owned by divine king, Ireland, 46 ; sacred, of Artemis, Phocis, 396 ; at Zulu wedding, 476-7

Caucasus : marriage custom, 283

Cavan : {see also Bailieborough) ; cure of elf-shooting, 200-10