Index.
389
Cam Glas, buried gold at, dreamed
of, 373 Carnival, riddles at, 259 Caste, in relation to anthropology in
India, 168 Castle, a whirling, 269, 270 Cat, the, in connection with Freya,
365
Catania, folklore of, 257, 258
Catch-words, 261
Catching a departed spirit, 87
Catel Church, Guernsey, stone female figure found in, 184
Catskin, and parallel tales, 121, 129
Cattle driven through fire, 216 ; plague, new sacred fire to cure, Denmark, 215 ; Scotland, 280
Celibacy, motive, in early romances,
354
Celtic influence on English literature, 30 ; its two sections, and their area, 41 ; persistence of, 46 ; and predominance, 47 ; Druidism, 76 ; romance and its connection with old French, 265, 267
Cerberus, 123
Chaldea, belief in secret words in, 259, 260
Chanonry, ghost of, 89
Chapala Lake, Mexico, votive vases from, 225
Charms and spells, blood to stop, 214; butter, to bewitch, 285; Evil Eye, to cure, 90 ; to prevent, 7, 9, 10, II ; eye, motes in, to cure, 92 ; medicinal, 12, 13, 18 ; ser- pent, to prevent, 85 ; witch, to baffle, 286; witch, to burn, 214
Chastity test in story of Unwilling Bride, 121 ; various Greek forms,
Checking, science of, to cure Evil Eye, 90
Chelonitis, the Greek storm-control- ling stone, 278
Chiapparelli {see Catch-words), 261
Chikar the Wise, eastern variant of Tobit tale, 243
Child folklore {see Birth Customs), 14; child passed round witch-bar in shrew ash, 334
China, folklore of {see McGowan). death-customs, 123; eyes on junks, 179; wedding hat, 125
Christianity, in relation to culture and race, 44 ; influence on folk- lore, 54 ; as the worship of the
dead, 64 ; its influence on Roman civilisation, 65 ; influence on Egyptian beliefs, 163, 164 Christmas, originally a solar festival, 364; crib, dolls, and "vessel" cup. Lines., 365 ; customs, Lines.,
364 Christmas Day, dough ceremonies in
Syria, 18 Christ's Half-Dole ; an East Anglian
Fishing Custom, by W. B. Gerish,
245 Chretien's poems, 181, 267, 357-9 Church folklore {see Lincoln Minster
and the Devil), 18 ; aisle-building
in German tradition, 343 ; burial
of live or dead body in walls of
churches, 367-8 Cicero, his version of Grateful Dead
story, 243 Circe, 120 Clan system, definition of, by
Durkheim, 251 ; in relation to class
system, 252 Class System in Australia, 252 ;
among the Pitta Pittas, 263 Clermont farm, witch baffled at, 285-
286 Clodd, E., Presidential Address of
1895, referred to, 363-364 Clonmel, witchcraft case at, 255 Clothes, connection of, with maker,
123 ; with wearer, 128 ; magic
properties of, Bengal, 279 Clothing as stakes at games and as
rewards, 93 Clouds as dwellings of gods,
Australia, 301, 304 Coffins walking with corpse inside,
Denmark, 217 Colour {see Blue, Red, etc.), of
North Indian wedding dresses,
125 ; of Majhwar wedding dresses,
Common Mark, the, implied in Homeric poems, loi
Community in ritual and social evolu- tion, 32, 33 ; in language and literature, 45
Comparison, importance of, in folk- lore, 51
Conan, counterpart of Sir Kay, 270
Conchobor and Dechtire, 182
Confarreatio, marriage by, Homeric instances, 104
Constantinople, 176
