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Jluences in Hellenic Mythology,
339
Cross, ceremony of diving for, Cos, 177 ; door signed with, Hebrides, 260, keyhole signed, with, Cyprus, 365, made over door at Easter, Cos, 178 ; feet signed with, in jumping St. John's Eve fires, Cos,
179 .
Crosses in charms against Evil Eye, 164
Crow, the, feather of, used for writing charms, 170 ; black, bird of evil- omen, 282 ; grateful, Indian folk- lore, 416; Hooded Gray, 277
Crowd unseen but heard, dispersed by prayer, Wexford, 363
Crown of Thorns, A, M. Peacock, 489
Crystal throne or rock of Baiame,
24, 52, 55
Cuailgne, Dun Bull of, 218
Ciichullin Saga, The, in Irish litera- ture, being a Collection of Stories relating to the Hero Cuchullin, translated from the Irish by various scholars. Compiled and edited with Introduction and Notes by Eleanor Hull, reviewed by F. York Powell, 217
Culann's Hound, 218
Cures (ysee also Medicinal folklore), miraculous, India, 399 ; by proxy, India, 403
Cursing a saint to get favours from him, India, 406
Cynocephals, visit of Alexander the Great to, 229
Cyprus, crossing the door and the person on leaving home, 365 ; divination in, 155 ; the Kalika- zari in, 176
More Notes from, by F. O. Har- vey, 365
Daitya demon the, India, 173 Damaras, sacred cattle of, 371, 377 Dances, Australian at Bora mysteries, 19,42,44; Hobby Horse, Stafford- shire, and Wiltshire, 186 ; Horn dance, Staffordshire, ib., round and over Fires, St. John's Eve, Cos, 179; Kagura, Japan, 307 ; of the Kalikazari, 174-5 ! Maypole, Dorsetshire, 481-2 ; Tub, of Japanese divinity, 306 Dani Jatti, legend of, India 401
Daniel the prophet, 164 Dante's bath in Lethe, 302 Daramulun, Australian god, 8, 38, 49> 5°> 348) as cannibal, 40, as healer, 20, mortal, 10, 16, 17, 18, powers of, 15, 17, watching young men to punish, 6, 7
Mrs. K. Langloh Parker on, 492
David, King, his men of war, 220 Dawed, Australian sub-god, 33 Days and Seasons : All Saints' Day, 121, 267 ; All Souls' Day, 121, 333 ; April the First, the P'east of Fibs, 177 ; Ascension-tide, 154, 178 ; Assumption, Feast of, 179, 253 ; August, days observed in, I79> 353 ; Beltane. 268 ; Christ- mas Eve, 115, 263 ; Christmas Day, 174 ; Christmastide, 180 ; Christmas to Epiphany, 176 ; Easter Eve, 177-8; Easter Day,
178, 180-1, 480; Epiphany, 171, 174-6, 177, 179; February, 180, 181 ; Friday, 116, 268, 361 ; Holy Apostles' Day, 180-1 ; Holy Thurs- day, 154; Holy Week, iii: Lady- day, 174; Lucky and unlucky days and seasons, 153, 267, 268, 349, 435 ; Lucky birthdays, 349 ; March,
179, 263 ; May Day, 171, 180, 268, 443, 481, 482 ; May season, 102, 154; May the Twenty-first, 181 ; Midnight, 115, 269, 395 ; Midsummer, see infra St. John's Day ; New Year's Eve, 177 ; New Year's-tide, 489 ; Night, 122 ; St. Andrew's Day, 180-1 ; St. Columba's day, 267 ; St. John's Eve and Day, 155, 178-9 ; St. Mark's Eve, 333; Saturday, 116, 169, 183, 268 ; September, days observed in, 179, 180-1, 253 ; Sunday, 1 16, 178, 253,282,349; Thursday, 116, 169, 267, 268, 361 ; Tuesday, 116, 267, 365; Wednesday, 116, 267; Whitsun- tide, 180
Days of the week, German birth- auguries connected with, 1 16
Dead coach in Louth, 1 19
Dean, Forest of, superstition regard- ing women, in, 365
Death and Funeral Customs and be- liefs, Beer-bottles buried in graves, Berkshire, 253 ; Cremation in the Bronze Age, 90, 92 ; Cakes laid on graves, Calymnos, 180- 1 ; Burial
