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Blood-guilt, ancient conception of, 451;
  Attic law concerning, 443;
  penalties for, 453;
  Plato's legislation concerning, 444

Blue beads, as amulets, 12

Body and soul, relation of, 361 ff., 526 ff.;
  re-union of, 538

Bones of the dead, how treated after exhumation, 540 f.

Boreas, 52

Breast-bone of fowl, divination from, 327

Bridal customs (see Wedding, Marriage)

'Bridge of Arta,' The, 262 f.

Brumalia (in Greece), 221

Burial (see also Cremation, Inhumation);
  demanded by ghosts, 431;
  lack of, 407 f., 427, 449;
  lack of, as punishment, 457

Buzzing in ear, as omen, 329


Callicantzari, 190-255;
  afraid of fire, 202;
  beast-like elements in, 203;
  compared with Centaurs, 253;
  demons or men?, 207-211;
  description of, 191;
  description of smaller species of 193;
  development of superstition concerning, 254;
  dialectic forms of name, 211 ff.;
  footgear of, 221; general habits of, 194;
  how outwitted, 196-200;
  identified with Centaurs, 235;
  identified with were-wolves, 208;
  offerings to, 201, 232;
  originally anthropomorphic, 206;
  origin of name, 211 ff.;
  power of transformation possessed by, 204, 240;
  precautions against, 200-202;
  resembling Satyrs and Centaurs, 192;
  sources of their features and attributes, 237 ff.;
  stories concerning, 196-200;
  their activity limited to Christmastide, 221;
  their relation to Satyrs, etc., 229 ff.;
  two main classes of, 191;
  variously represented, 190;
  whether demons or men originally, 209 ff.;
  wives of, 200

Callicantzaros, The Great, 195

Callirrhoë, as sacred spring, 555

Candles, thrown into grave at funeral, 512

'Captain Thirteen,' a folk-story, 75

Carnival, celebrations of, 224 ff.

Cat, jumping over dead person, 410;
  omens drawn from, 328

Caves, haunted by Nymphs, 160

Cenotaphs, 490

Centauros, son of Ixion, 242

Centaurs (see Callicantzari), 190-255;
  and Lapithae, 242;
  as wizards, 248 f.;
  compared with Callicantzari, 253;
  general character of, 246;
  Heracles' fight with, 253;
  how represented in Art, 247;
  in Hesiod, 242;
  in Homer, 243;
  in Pindar, 241;
  popular conception of, how affected by Art, 252;
  Prof. Ridgeway's view of, 244 ff.;
  various species of, 235, 237;
  whether human or divine in origin, 241 ff.;
  why called 'Beasts,' 245 ff.

Cephalus, 601

Cerberus, 97, 99

Character of modern Greeks, 28 ff.

Charms, 286

Charon, 98-117;
  addressed as 'Saint,' 53;
  ancient literary presentation of, 106;
  as ferryman, earliest mention of, 114;
  brother to Uranos, 116;
  identified with Death, 114

Charon's obol, 108, 285;
  as charm to prevent soul from re-entering body, 434;
  custom of, how interpreted, 405 f.

Charos, appearance of, 100;
  as agent of God, 101-4;
  as archer, 105;
  as ferryman, 107;
  as godfather, story of, 102;
  as horseman, 105;
  as pirate, 107-8;
  as warrior, 105;
  as wrestler, 104, 105;
  Christianised character of, 101;
  coin as fee for, 109;
  functions of, 101;
  household of, 99;
  in connexion with Christianity, 101;
  originally Pelasgian deity, 116;
  pagan character of, 105

Charun, Etruscan god, 116

Child-birth, precautions against Nereids observed at, 140;
  precautions at, 10-11

Children, conceived or born on Church-festivals, how afflicted, 408;
  liable to lycanthropy, 208;
  preyed upon by Gelloudes, 177;
  preyed upon by Striges, 181;
  stricken by Nereids, how treated, 145;
  suspected of lycanthropy, how treated, 210

Chiron, 241 ff., 248;
  as magician and prophet, 248 f.

Cholera, personified, 22

Christ, accepted as new deity by pagans, 41

'Christian,' popular usage of word, 66

Christianity, became polytheistic, 42;
  and paganism, 36

Church, influenced by paganism, 572 f.

Churching of women, 20

Clement of Alexandria, on the Mysteries, 570, 572;
  on rites of Aphrodite, 581

Clytemnestra, ghost of, 474

Cock, as victim, 326

Cocks, superstitions concerning, 195

Coin, as charm, 111;
  placed in mouth of dead persons, 108, 405;
  placed in mouth of dead persons, various substitutes for, 112

'Comforting,' feast of, 533

Common origin of gods and men, 65