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Calicut: sympathetic magic, 475
Calymnos men yield milk, 106;
sneezing, saying about, 106; sponge
an animal, 106

Calypso island of, 58; magic cloth-
ing, 72; story distinguished from
that of Circe, 177-8
Cambridge: shutting windows after
death, 337

Cambridge History of English Litera-
ture, The, vol. i., reviewed, 247-
51

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Cambridgeshire, see Cambridge
Camel afreet appears as, Egypt,
471; Nereid takes shape of, Greece,
168

Camelot, see Cadbury camp
Campania, see Cumae

Camps associated with dragon and
battle legends, Somerset, 35-6
Camwood-tree: in hunting charms,
Lower Congo, 431, 435
Canada, see Chipewyan Indians
Canara, see South Canara; and Udipi
Candia amulet, 469

Candle: Easter-Sunday, Agnus Dei
from, 203, and contains 3 wax nails,
Flanders, 202

Candlemas Day: candle blessed,
Flanders, 203

Cannibalism in Australia, 397, 401-
3, 405; in Europe, 176
Cannington: fort and ford, 41; other
folk than Somerset = Welsh, 343;
spectral hound, 44

Cannington Marsh: Danish raid, 36
Cannington Park: Danish defeat, 39;
shrew tree, 88-9

Cardiganshire, see Llanafan; Ponter-
wyd; and Ystrad Meurig
Carey, Miss E. H.: The Fifth of
November and Guy Fawkes, 104-5
(plate)

Carhampton: Arthur legend, 35
Caria: prehistoric population, 58
Carlingford hills: itch, charm for,
316

Carmarthenshire: (see also Cwrt-y-
Cadno); crystal-gazing, 328-9;
Devil takes wizard's body, 331;
spirit-raising, 327-31
Carols, see Folk-songs
Carpathian to Pindus, From: Pic-

tures of Roumanian Country Life,
by T. Stratilesco, reviewed, 346-7
Carpentaria, Gulf of: dead, disposal

Carpenter, J. Estlin: Congress of the
History of Religions, 228-30

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Cassava leaves in abortion doses,
Lower Congo, 419

Caste: Bougle's Essais sur le Régime
des Castes reviewed, 488-92
Castlebellingham: wise man, 317
Cat: amulets in shape of, England
and Italy, 295; black, blood of in
charms, Ireland, 316; black, in
charm, Cavan, 316-7; black, as
mascot, London, 290; death warn-
ing by, Cavan, 318; in folktales,
Australia, 307-8, Tibet, 116; motor
mascot in shape of, England, 292;
skin as amulet, Flanders, 208
Catalepsy amulets against, Flanders,

208

Catamenia: amulets for, Flanders,
207; customs during, Lower Congo,
418
Catford (Som), 46

Cattle, see Cow; and Ox
Caucasus, see Svanetia
Cauro: rain-making, 332
Cavan charm, 323; death warning,

318; divination, 323; folk medicine,
315-7; unlucky to burn hair, 319
Celebes, see Bonthain; Buginese; and
Macassar

Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian
Times, by E. Anwyl, reviewed,
124-5

Celts (see also France; Ireland;
Scotland; and Wales); cannibalism
amongst, 176; Celto-Latin peoples,
folklore of, 366-9; fairies, 176;
religion, 124-5; only women in Land
of Everliving, 161

Celts, stone : as amulets, Ireland,
298, Jersey, 298-9

Centaurs; in Homeric poems, 159-60
Centipede inserted alive into idol,
China, 91

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Central America, see Kichés

Central Provinces of India, see Bilas-

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Chalcedony, red, as amulet, 297
Chaldæa (see also Babylon); Eabani
the god, 167

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Chalk in hunting charm, Lower
Congo, 436; in pregnancy charm,
Lower Congo, 419
Chamberlain, A. F.: A Macassar
Version of Cinderella, 230-2
Champa: King Udayin, 350
Chanakya, minister of Chandragupta,
350-2

Chandragupta, King, see King Chan-
dragupta

Channel islands, see Guernsey; and
Jersey

Charlton Horethorne: holy well, 49
Charms and spells: (see also Amulets
and talismans):—

against: bleeding, Devon, 89-90,
Odyssey &c., 73; blight, Kerry,
323; burns and scalds, Ire-
land, 317; children's ailments,
India, 501; drouth, Anatolia,
311; epilepsy, Meath, 316,
Scotland &c., 85; erysipelas,
Kerry, 316; evil eye, Somerset,
88; "grup" in cows, Antrim,
299; heart disease, Cavan,
315-6; hernia, Somerset, 88;
ill-luck at whist, London, 301;
itch, Carlingford hills, 316;
king's evil, Cavan, 316;
mumps, Cavan, 315; ring-
worm, Limerick, 317; starva-
tion, Cavan, 323; warts, Cavan,
315, Somerset, 89; whitlows,
Cavan, 316-7; whooping cough,
Devon, 345, Limerick, 317,
Oxfordshire, 296;

to expel rats, Ireland, 318; full
name of patient must be known,
Isle of Man, 78; for hunting-
dogs, Lower Congo, 436; for
hunting-luck, Lower Congo,
431-3; India, 73, 474; to
injure enemy, Madras, 474,
Malabar, 475; Japan, 374; for
rain-making, Anatolia, 311-2,
Corsica, 332, Roumania, 347
Charybdis, myth of, 179
Chastity : amulets to preserve,
Flanders, 207, 210

Cheddar: gorge made by devil, 43
Chemmis, floating island, 185
Chieftainship: powers and perquisites
of, Lower Congo, 426-7; succession

Childbirth customs and beliefs, see

Birth customs and beliefs
Children (see also Birth customs and
beliefs; Medical folklore; and
Twins); amulets specially for,
Flanders, 208-10, Portugal, 217;
diseases caused by moon, Portugal,
217; looking in glass gives bad
dreams, Lower Congo, 420; rela-
tions to parents, Lower Congo,
424-5; shooting stars may injure,
Lower Congo, 420; sucklings not
charged for, Lower Congo, 421
Chimæra, in saga of Bellerophon,
157-9

Chimpanzee: name of, Manyema, 255
China: (see also Tibet); amulet de-

rived from, England, 295; folktales,
73, 154; purgatory, 76; Putting
Life into an Idol, 91; Tibetan
folktales imported from, 117;
women's kingdom, 161
Chingalee tribe, see Tjingilli tribe
Chipewyan Indians: lactation in

male, 106

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Cnossus pictographic script, 155
Coal as luck-bringer, East Ham,
290, Leeds, 290
Coburg Peninsula: dead, disposal of,
389

Cock: afreet as, Arabian Nights, 167;
cock-fighting, ceremonial, India,
475; in folktales, Celebes, 231,
Germany, 168, Norway, 167,
Nyanga, 256

Coco nut: amulets from shell, Lin-
colnshire, 87

Coco-nut palm: in folktale, Tibet,
116

Cocullo: costume, 313

Cocytus river: branch of Styx, 69
Cod-fish in folktale, Australia, 225-6
Codvan's Well, in legend of Savaddan
lake, 460

Coins as amulets, 361; made by
magic, Morocco, 457; as witch
medals, Tuscany, 87; with holes,
as amulets, Lincolnshire, 87-8
Coles, F. R.: Journey Omen, 344
Colic: amulets against, Portugal, 217
(plate)

Collectanea, 78-97, 190-227, 288-332,
438-70

Cologne: amulets of three Magi
Kings, 83-7

Colours in folklore, see under various
colours, such as Red
Combwich: charm against evil eye,
88; devil seen, 45; ford and fort,
31-2, 38, 41; hill dropped by devil,
43; Scandinavian population, 45-7;
Wild Hunt, 41, 43

Compass: as amulet, London, 297
Compass, points of, see East; North;
South; and West

Compendium of the Punjab Customary
Law, by H. A. Rose, reviewed,
251-2

Conception: Australia, 161; women's
island near Sumatra, 161
Congo Free State: (see also Bangala
tribe; Lulanga river; Manyema;
Monsembe; San Salvador; and
Wathen); Notes on some Customs
of the Lower Congo People, by
Rev. J. H. Weeks, 409-37; de
Jonghe's Les Sociétés Secrètes au
Bas Congo reviewed, 370, 373
Congress of the History of Religions,
by J. Estlin Carpenter, 228-30
Connaught, see Galway county

Convulsions, amulets against, Italy,
218

Conybeare, F. C.: The Use of a
Skull in a Rain-making Ceremony
in Corsica, 332

Copper horse of Vergilius, 72; in
Transvaal

Coral amuletic, 365, Flanders, 210,
Portugal, 217 (plate)
Corcyra, see Corfu

Corfu city of Alcinous, 58, 186;
rock Karavi, 166

Corinth cult of Cyclopes, 172; cult
of Poseidon, 239

Cork county: (see also Muskerry);
dead coach, 320

Corkscrew as amulet, Lincolnshire,
87

Corn: magician as grain of, Ger-
many, 168

Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and the
like Yorkshire, 104

Cornwall Tregarthen's Legends and
Tales of North Cornwall and The
Piskey Purse noticed, 503; saffron
unlucky in fishing, 108
Correspondence, 98-108, 228-35, 333-
45, 471-5

Corringham; death knock, 466-8
Corsica, see Cauro

Cortona St Margaret of, 207
Corvedale: ballad, 192
Cosmogony: Roumania, 346
Council of Folk-Lore Society: elec-
tion, 3-4; report, 5-11
Courcy, Sir John de, 39
Courting customs and beliefs: Aber-
deenshire, 472; Lower Congo, 411,
414-5; Panjab, 251; spitting, 367
Cow amulets worn by, Antrim, 299
(plate); charm to cure "grup,
Antrim, 299; dung in charm against
ailments, India, 506; horn as amu-
let, Portugal, 215 (plate); sacrificed
for rain, Anatolia, 309; in tale of
spirit-raising, Wales, 329-31
Cowry shell: as amulet, Greeks,

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469, Lincolnshire, 87-8, London,
297; in hunting charm, Lower
Congo, 432; talking, in folktale,
Tibet, 119

Coyote culture hero as, Amerin-
dians, 478

Cradle Tales of Hinduism, by Miss
M. E. Noble, reviewed, 115
Craigour hill well custom, May,

Chalcedony, red, as amulet, 297
Chaldæa (see also Babylon); Eabani
the god, 167

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Chalk in hunting charm, Lower
Congo, 436; in pregnancy charm,
Lower Congo, 419
Chamberlain, A. F.: A Macassar
Version of Cinderella, 230-2
Champā: King Udayin, 350
Chanakya, minister of Chandragupta,
350-2

Chandragupta, King, see King Chan-
dragupta

Channel islands, see Guernsey; and
Jersey

Charlton Horethorne: holy well, 49
Charms and spells: (see also Amulets
and talismans):-
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against bleeding, Devon, 89-90,
Odyssey &c., 73; blight, Kerry,
323; burns and scalds, Ire-
land, 317; children's ailments,
India, 501; drouth, Anatolia,
311; epilepsy, Meath, 316,
Scotland &c., 85; erysipelas,
Kerry, 316; evil eye, Somerset,
88; "grup "in cows, Antrim,
299; heart disease, Cavan,
315-6; hernia, Somerset, 88;
ill-luck at whist, London, 301;
itch, Carlingford hills, 316
king's evil, Cavan, 316;
mumps, Cavan, 315; ring-
worm, Limerick, 317; starva-
tion, Cavan, 323; warts, Cavan,
315, Somerset, 89; whitlows,
Cavan, 316-7; whooping cough,
Devon, 345, Limerick, 317,
Oxfordshire, 296;

to expel rats, Ireland, 318; full
name of patient must be known,
Isle of Man, 78; for hunting-
dogs, Lower Congo, 436; for
hunting-luck, Lower Congo,
431-3; India, 73, 474; to
injure enemy, Madras, 474,
Malabar, 475; Japan, 374; for
rain-making, Anatolia, 311-2,
Corsica, 332, Roumania, 347
Charybdis, myth of, 179
Chastity : amulets to preserve,
Flanders, 207, 210

Cheddar: gorge made by devil, 43
Chemmis, floating island, 185
Chieftainship: powers and perquisites
of, Lower Congo, 426-7; succession

Childbirth customs and beliefs, see

Birth customs and beliefs

Children (see also Birth customs and
beliefs; Medical folklore; and
Twins); amulets specially for,
Flanders, 208-10, Portugal, 217;
diseases caused by moon, Portugal,
217; looking in glass gives bad
dreams, Lower Congo, 420; rela-
tions to parents, Lower Congo,
424-5; shooting stars may injure,
Lower Congo, 420; sucklings not
charged for, Lower Congo, 421
Chimæra, in saga of Bellerophon,
157-9

Chimpanzee: name of, Manyema, 255
China: (see also Tibet); amulet de-

rived from, England, 295; folktales,
73. 154; purgatory, 76; Putting
Life into an Idol, 91; Tibetan
folktales imported from, 117;
women's kingdom, 161
Chingalee tribe, see Tjingilli tribe
Chipewyan Indians: lactation in
male, 106

Chiron the Centaur, 160

Chithor: commemoration of fall, 68
Chitrangi, tale of, 157

Cholera St Roch averts, Flanders,

212

Christmastide: Germany, 509
Chthonian deities, 170, 238
Churches in folklore: France, III
Churchyard: north side for unbap-
tized &c., 459; in preparing amulet,
U.S.A., 296

Chyavana, folktale of, India, 61
Cilicia: prehistoric population, 58
Cimmerians, land of, in Odyssey, 176
Cinderella type of folktales, 2, 22-3,
25, 73, 173, 230-4
Circe: magic ointment of, 73-5; story
of, 177-9

Circumcision in Transvaal, 283-4
Cisterns cannot be counted, Rhodes,
470

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Clagland's Corner (Som.): ghost, 342-3
Clans ceremonies origin of secret
societies &c., 371-2; on Lower
Congo, 425-6; names of, Lower
Congo, 425-6, Nyanja, 255, Panjab,
268

Claws: as amulets, Portugal, 217
(plate)

Clover, four-leaved: as amulet, Eng-
land, 293-4, Flanders, 204

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Cnossus pictographic script, 155
Coal: as luck-bringer, East Ham,
290, Leeds, 290
Coburg Peninsula: dead, disposal of,
389

Cock: afreet as, Arabian Nights, 167;
cock-fighting, ceremonial, India,
475; in folktales, Celebes, 231,
Germany, 168, Norway, 167,
Nyanga, 256

Coco nut: amulets from shell, Lin-
colnshire, 87

Coco-nut palm: in folktale, Tibet,
116

Cocullo: costume, 313

Cocytus river: branch of Styx, 69
Cod-fish: in folktale, Australia, 225-6
Codvan's Well, in legend of Savaddan
lake, 460

Coins as amulets, 361; made by
magic, Morocco, 457; as witch
medals, Tuscany, 87; with holes,
as amulets, Lincolnshire, 87-8
Coles, F. R.: Journey Omen, 344
Colic: amulets against, Portugal, 217
(plate)

Collectanea, 78-97, 190-227, 288-332,
438-70

Cologne: amulets of three Magi
Kings, 83-7

Colours in folklore, see under various
colours, such as Red
Combwich charm against evil eye,
88; devil seen, 45; ford and fort,
31-2, 38, 41; hill dropped by devil,
43; Scandinavian population, 45-7;
Wild Hunt, 41, 43

Compass: as amulet, London, 297
Compass, points of, see East; North;
South; and West

Compendium of the Punjab Customary
Law, by H. A. Rose, reviewed,
251-2

Conception: Australia, 161; women's
island near Sumatra, 161
Congo Free State: (see also Bangala
tribe; Lulanga river; Manyema;
Monsembe; San Salvador; and
Wathen); Notes on some Customs
of the Lower Congo People, by
Rev. J. H. Weeks, 409-37; de
Jonghe's Les Sociétés Secrètes au
Bas Congo reviewed, 370, 373.
Congress of the History of Religions,
by J. Estlin Carpenter, 228-30
Connaught, see Galway county

Convulsions, amulets against, Italy,
218

Conybeare, F. C.: The Use of a
Skull in a Rain-making Ceremony
in Corsica, 332

Copper horse of Vergilius, 72; in
Transvaal

Coral amuletic, 365, Flanders, 210,
Portugal, 217 (plate)
Corcyra, see Corfu

Corfu city of Alcinous, 58, 186;
rock Karavi, 166

Corinth cult of Cyclopes, 172; cult
of Poseidon, 239

Cork county: (see also Muskerry);
dead coach, 320
Corkscrew as amulet, Lincolnshire,
87

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Cortona: St Margaret of, 207
Corvedale ballad, 192
Cosmogony: Roumania, 346
Council of Folk-Lore Society: elec-
tion, 3-4; report, 5-11
Courcy, Sir John de, 39

Courting customs and beliefs: Aber-
deenshire, 472; Lower Congo, 411,
414-5; Panjab, 251; spitting, 367
Cow: amulets worn by, Antrim, 299
(plate); charm to cure "grup,'
Antrim, 299; dung in charm against
ailments, India, 506; horn as amu-
let, Portugal, 215 (plate); sacrificed
for rain, Anatolia, 309; in tale of
spirit-raising, Wales, 329-31
Cowry shell: as amulet, Greeks,
469, Lincolnshire, 87-8, London,
297; in hunting charm, Lower
Congo, 432; talking, in folktale,
Tibet, 119

Coyote culture hero as, Amerin-
dians, 478

Cradle Tales of Hinduism, by Miss
M. E. Noble, reviewed, 115
Craigour hill: well custom, May,

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