Cock, black, hatched in March effective against evil spirits, 263
as corn-spirit, 107
sacred, Hebrides, 262-4
in Japanese myth, 306
sacrificed to secure treasure-trove, 182
white, feathers of, used in seeking treasure, 230
Cock-crow, effect on evil spirits, 262, 364
Cock-crowing, at unusual hour as omen, 262-3
Cock-warning, 337
Coffins, boats used to carry, unlucky, 272
Coins, magical, 230
Coloured threads used in witchcraft, Hebrides, 282
Colours, (see Black, Blue, etc.), worn against Evil Eye, 152-3, other uses. 154
Columcille, see Saint Columba
Combing hair, forbidden on Saturday, Cos, 183
Comparative method of Folklore research, 132-3
Complaining people, saying about, Hebrides, 271
Conch, magic, 420
Conchobar, 218
Conjurer Mintern's Horseleap at Batcombe, 481
Constantinople, Old, submarine church near, 230
Consumption, snake-skin as cure for, 231
Conybeare, F. C, review by, Marr's Fables of Wardan, 462
Copenhagen, living child buried in wall, 360
Copper-headed spear, magical, 211
Cords (see also Threads), plaited in spells, 154
Corea, 300, 308, 309
Cormorants' feathers used as roofing, Japanese myth, 311
Cornwall, Christmas mummers in, 351, St. Michael's Mount in, 359
Corpse, brow of, touched to prevent ill-luck, 254, face touched to hinder dreaming of the dead, ib., 477
revived, gratitude of, 417
Corpses, raised, as messengers, Iceland, 460
Correspondence, 111, 246, 351, 477
Cos, Island of, Folklore from, 150, 177, sqq.
Cotton, bit of, in tithe offering, Cos, 179, knotted to cure ague, 165
County Folklore, announced, 66
Countries, cities, and people, vanishing, 231
Coursing, ghostly, Wexford, 362
Couvade, see Birth
the? by Leland L. Duncan, 119
Coventry Miracles, the, 187
Cows, 177, 275, 277, 284, milking, 260, 270, death of, Hebridean euphemism for, 265, flesh of, (dead from illness) boiled before distribution, 270; striking with hand forbidden, Hebrides, 262; and see Cattle
Cow's heart stuck with pins and burnt to punish witch, 483-5
neck-thread torn off in oath, India, 409
Craigie, W. A., review by, Ellice's Place-names in Glengarry, 244
Cranes, helpful, India, 416
Creation myths of Australian natives, 6, 32, 33> 237
early, pathos of, 132
Japan, 297, and creation deities, 298, 300
Creation Myths of Primitive America in relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind, by Jeremiah Curtin, reviewed by A. Nutt, 341
Creation Records discovered in Egypt, by George St. Clair, reviewed, 109
A Protest, by G. St. Clair, 246
Creator, Eskimo postulate of, 9
Creeping things, charm to prevent beasts from hurt by, 152
Cremation in the Bronze Age, 90, 92
Crescent, powers of, 457
Crete, grave of Zeus in, 10, 13
Crewe family, lucky caul of, 101
Cricket, grateful, 416
Crocodile, in African folktales, 224, 291
Crooke, W., reviews by, Brown's Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phanicians and Babylonians, 339; Brown's Semitic In
