Chalcedony, red, as amulet, 297
Chaldæa: (see also Babylon); Eabani
the god, 167
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
Chiron the Centaur, 160
Chithor: commemoration of fall, 68
Chitrangi, tale of, 157
Cholera St Roch averts, Flanders,
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,
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
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,
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,
Cramp, amulets against, England,
296, Flanders, 207
cranes and pigmies, Iliad,
162, Musquakies, 478; in folktale,
Australia, 227
Creation myths: Assam, 481-2
Crescents, see Moon
Crete (see also Candia; Cnossus;
Dictaean cave; and Messará); early
sea power, 58; religion related to
Greek, 236, 238-9; writing on clay
tablets, 155
Cricket: as death warning, and how
to avert, Ireland, 318
Crooke, W.: Some Notes on Homeric
Folk-Lore, 52-77, 153-89; reviews
by,-Rose's Compendium of the
Punjab Customary Law, 251-2;
Noble's Cradle Tales of Hinduism,
115; Cowell and Rouse's The
Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's
former Births, vol. VI., 113-5;
Religions Ancient and Modern,
124-5; short notice by,-Gordon's
Indian Folk-Tales, 506-7
Cross as amulet, England, 293, 298,
Flanders, 204, 208, Ireland, 300,
Portugal, 216-9 (plate), 221-3 (plate);
as fetish and charm, Congo, 409
Cross roads: burials at, Lower Congo,
423, 437; in transferring ailments,
India, 501
Crow crucified, Kirton-in-Lindsey,
468-9; in folktales, Australia, 304-
6, Ireland, 323, Tibet, 116
Crowcombe: dragon legend, 35-6;
Sedgemoor tradition, 40
Croydon amulets, 298
Crucifix, see Cross
Crystal-gazing: Mexico, 500; Wales,
328-9
Cuchulainn sagas: draught of obli-
vion, 76
Culbone: St Culbone, 33
Cults of the Greek States, The, by L.
R. Farnell, reviewed, 236-40
Cumae: cave of Cyclops, 58, 166
Cumberland: thar-cake, 338
Curragh ride of sleeping wizard,
321-2
Cursing, see Imprecations
Cwmdu: in legend of Savaddan lake,
460
Cwrt-y-Cadno: wizard, 327-31
Cybele the goddess, 165, 238
Cyclades, see Greek islands
Cyclops: cave of, Cumae, 58, 166;
cult of, Corinth, 172; folktale of,
57; Polyphemus, 64, 163, 172-3
Cymric, King, see King Cymric
Cypræidæ, see Cowry shell
Cyprus: cuneiform characters, 155;
folktale, 187-8
Dagon, the fish god, 166
Dahomey female bodyguard, 161;
invisibility by pounding baby, 74
Dalmeny meaning of name, 386
Daly river: (see also Chingalee tribe);
dead, disposal of, 389, 403
Damaraland, see Herero
Dames, M. Longworth: reviews by,—
Hodson's The Meitheis, 479-80 ;
Lyall and Stack's The Mikirs, 479,
480-1; short notices by,-M'Nair
and Barlow's Oral Tradition from
the Indus, 507; Hellgren's Sång-
lekår fran Nääs, 510
Dances: Mexico, 500; Nyanja, 256;
Pueblo Indians, 7; start of drama,
Peru and Polynesia, 237; Sweden,
510
Danes: coast population, Somerset,
34; in traditions of Quantocks,
36-9, 45-6, 50
Danesboro' hill: dragon legend, 35-6;
fort, 32, 41; old warriors still live
in, 41; in saying, 40
Darling river: dead, disposal of, 400;
in folktale, 307; mourning custom,
Datchet animated hairs, 107
David, King, see King David
Days and Seasons: August, 379,
383-4, 464-6; Candlemas Day, 203;
Christmastide, 504; December, 105,
504; Easter, 202-3, 504; Easter
Sunday, 202-3; February, 87, 203;
15th day of 6th month lucky, Tibet,
117; Friday, 41, 296, 379, 470;
Good Friday, 41, 470; Guy Fawkes'
Day, 104-5, 337; January, 91, 193;
July, 40; June, 323; Lammas,
383-4; Lent, 106; May, 472; May
Day, 472; Midnight, 296; Mid-
summer Eve, 323; Monday, 319;
months, names of, Roumania, 347;
New Year, 105, 375; New Year's
Eve, 105; November, 104-5, 212,
337; October, 438-9; Palm Sun.
day, 202; St Hubert's Day, 212;
457-8, 504; Summer, 384; Sunday,
202-3, 317, 326-7, 464-6, 472; 13th
of month, 296; Twelfth Night, 91;
Valentine's Day, 87; week, days
of, in folktales, 325-7; Whitsuntide,
92, 504; Yule tide, ancient, 337-8
Dead coach, see Headless ghosts
Dead, land of, see Hades
Death amulet in shape of face of,
Flanders, 206; in folktales, 181-2;
in Sisyphus myth, 181
Death and funeral customs and beliefs:
(see also Ghosts; Graves; and
Omens); Australia, 388-408, 487;
blessed candle burnt during dying,
Flanders, 203; burial customs,
Australia, 53, 388-408, Homeric
Greeks, 53, India, 53-4, 501, Lower
Congo, 422-3, 429, Lower Niger,
498, Tasmania, 53; Celto-Latin
peoples, 368; corpse sprinkled from
box sprigs, Flanders, 202; crawling
under bier lucky, Greece, 470;
dancing after death, Upper Congo,
92; dead dwell in grave, Australia,
399, or grave tree, Iliad &c., 66;
dead, land of, see Hades; feasts,
Lower Congo, 429-30; fire purifi-
cation after touching corpse, Upper
Congo, 93; flowers from bier lucky,
Greece, 470; food and goods
buried, Australia, 393, 400, Upper
Congo, 92-3; funeral customs and
processions, Lower Congo, 421,
429; future life, beliefs about,
Australia, 403, Celto-Latins, 368,
Lower Congo, 423, 430, Lower
Niger, 498; head of corpse struck
off to lay ghost, Gloucestershire, 37;
Lower Congo, 428-31; mourning
customs, Abruzzi, 314, Australia,
404-5, Basutos and Bathonga, 283,
Lower Congo, 415-6, Lower Niger,
498, Tibet, 117; myrtle laid on
graves, Morocco, 455; nails of dead
must be cut, Edda, 187; opening
windows &c. to release soul, Taun-
ton, 336, Wales, 108; running water
ceremony to repel spirit of dead,
Upper Congo, 93; shutting windows
after death, Cambridge, 337; spirit
hovers round unburied corpse,
Lower Congo, 430; Torres Straits,
487
Death-Knock in the Wapentake of
Corringham, Lincolnshire, by Miss
Deborah the prophetess, 67
December, see Christmastide; New
Year's Eve; and Yule tide, ancient
Dé Danaan, see Tuatha Dé Danann
Dee river (Louth): sleeping army, 322
Deer; (see also Musk-deer); in folk-
tales, India, 72, Tibet, 116, 119;
stag's horn as amulet, Madeira and
Portugal, 216; white doe in folk-
tale, Tibet, 119
Deity, conceptions of; Australia, 485;
pairs of gods and heroes, 163
Delos floating island, 185; palm-
tree, 57; pilgrimages to, 239
Delphi cult of Apollo, 240
Deluge legends, 57
Demeter: as civilizer, 238; in Homeric
poems, 59, 64; horse-headed, 237-8
Demi-gods, pairs of, 163
Demons and evil spirits: (see also
Afreet; Devil; and Jinns); eyes put
out by striking ground with bay-
stick, Morocco, 455; possession,
see Possession, demon; propitiated
by cock-fighting, India, 475; vila
or mar, Balkan Penin., 503
Denmark (see also Danes; Faroe
islands; Greenland; Iceland; Jut-
land; and Scandinavia); five kings
list, 353-4; Lejre Chronicle, 355;
Oddi raises storms, 185
Depeghoz, Tartar monster, 173
Derbyshire thar-cake, 338
Devil: in folk tales, Somerset, 42-5;
takes bodies of wizards, Wales, 331
"Devil's Door" in Wroxhall Abbey
Church, The, by Miss C. S. Burne,
458-9 (plate)
Devon (see also Bideford; Black
Torrington; Dart river; Exeter ;
Morebath; Sutcombe; and Tor
rington); charm against whooping
cough, 345; dialect found in Quan-
tocks, 33; folklore from, 127;
firstborn cannot be overlooked,'
340, or see ghost, 342; folk-song,
147; Sundry Notes from West
Somerset and Devon, by Rev. C. W.
Whistler, 88-91
Diarmuid and Grainne, 173
Diarrhoea in poison ordeal, Lower
Congo, 417
Dice as amulets, England, 295
Dickson, Miss I. A.: The Burry-Man,
131, 379-87 (plates)
Dictaean cave: libation table, 70
Cramp, amulets against, England,
296, Flanders, 207
cranes and pigmies, Iliad,
162, Musquakies, 478; in folktale,
Australia, 227
Creation myths: Assam, 481-2
Crescents, see Moon
Crete (see also Candia; Cnossus;
Dictaean cave; and Messará); early
sea power, 58; religion related to
Greek, 236, 238-9; writing on clay
tablets, 155
Cricket as death warning, and how
to avert, Ireland, 318
Crooke, W.: Some Notes on Homeric
Folk-Lore, 52-77, 153-89; reviews
by,-Rose's Compendium of the
Punjab Customary Law, 251-2;
Noble's Cradle Tales of Hinduism,
115; Cowell and Rouse's The
Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's
former Births, vol. VI., 113-5;
Religions Ancient and Modern,
124-5; short notice by,-Gordon's
Indian Folk-Tales, 506-7
Cross as amulet, England, 293, 298,
Flanders, 204, 208, Ireland, 300,
Portugal, 216-9 (plate), 221-3 (plate);
as fetish and charm, Congo, 409
Cross roads: burials at, Lower Congo,
423, 437; in transferring ailments,
India, 501
Crow crucified, Kirton-in-Lindsey,
468-9; in folktales, Australia, 304-
6, Ireland, 323, Tibet, 116
Crowcombe dragon legend, 35-6;
Sedgemoor tradition, 40
Croydon amulets, 298
Crucifix, see Cross
Crystal-gazing: Mexico, 500; Wales,
328-9
Cuchulainn sagas: draught of obli-
vion, 76
Culbone: St Culbone, 33
Cults of the Greek States, The, by L.
R. Farnell, reviewed, 236-40
Cumae: cave of Cyclops, 58, 166
Cumberland: thar-cake, 338
Curragh ride of sleeping wizard,
321-2
Cursing, see Imprecations
Cwmdu: in legend of Savaddan lake,
460
Cwrt-y-Cadno: wizard, 327-31
Cybele the goddess, 165, 238
Cyclades, see Greek islands
Cyclops: cave of, Cumae, 58, 166;
cult of, Corinth, 172; folktale of,
57; Polyphemus, 64, 163, 172-3
Cymric, King, see King Cymric
Cypræidæ, see Cowry shell
Cyprus: cuneiform characters, 155;
folktale, 187-8
Dagon, the fish god, 166
Dahomey female bodyguard, 161;
invisibility by pounding baby, 74
Dalmeny meaning of name, 386
Daly river: (see also Chingalee tribe);
dead, disposal of, 389, 403
Damaraland, see Herero
Dames, M. Longworth: reviews by,-
Hodson's The Meitheis, 479-80 ;
Lyall and Stack's The Mikirs, 479,
480-1; short notices by,-M'Nair
and Barlow's Oral Tradition from
the Indus, 507; Hellgren's Sång-
lekår fran Nääs, 510
Dances: Mexico, 500; Nyanja, 256;
Pueblo Indians, 7; start of drama,
Peru and Polynesia, 237; Sweden,
510
Danes: coast population, Somerset,
34; in traditions of Quantocks,
36-9, 45-6, 50
Danesboro' hill: dragon legend, 35-6;
fort, 32, 41; old warriors still live
in, 41; in saying, 40
Darling river: dead, disposal of, 400;
in folktale, 307; mourning custom,
Dart river: saying, 171
Datchet animated hairs, 107
David, King, see King David
Days and Seasons: August, 379,
383-4, 464-6; Candlemas Day, 203;
Christmastide, 504; December, 105,
504; Easter, 202-3, 504; Easter
Sunday, 202-3; February, 87, 203;
15th day of 6th month lucky, Tibet,
117; Friday, 41, 296, 379, 470;
Good Friday, 41, 470; Guy Fawkes'
Day, 104-5, 337; January, 91, 193 ;
July, 40; June, 323; Lammas,
383-4; Lent, 106; May, 472; May
Day, 472; Midnight, 296; Mid-
summer Eve, 323; Monday, 319;
months, names of, Roumania, 347;
New Year, 105, 375; New Year's
Eve, 105; November, 104-5, 212,
337; October, 438-9; Palm Sun-
day, 202; St Hubert's Day, 212;
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