Index.
457
Conception : from reincarnation of
ancestor, India and Australia, 236;
mandrake procures, Hebrides, 218 Conjunctivitis, cure for, Boers, 71 Connaught : {see also Galway ; and
Mayo) ; folktales, 220 Contes et Legendes cT Irlande, traduits
du Gaelu]ue,hy G. Dottin, reviewed,
220-1 Cook's islands, see Raratonga Cooper river, see Killalpanina Cooper's Creek : near districts in
Dieri legend, 417 Coquet : St. Henry, 216 Corfe Castle : K. Edward, 216 Cork county : folktales, 221 Corn : divination by seeils on stalk,
Hebrides, 53 ; fires in fields on
Christmas Eve, St. Briavel's, 174 Corn-crake ; enchanted, Hebrides, 35 Corn spirits, vegetation souls, and
the like : Berwickshire, 178 ;
Malays, 155, 163-4 ; Maoris, 25 Cornwall: (see also Looe; and St.
Neot's) ; St. Briavel, Cornish king,
171 ; trees whisper future on 2 1st
of month, 429 Corozaim, Antichrist brought up in,
129 Corpses, customs and beliefs concern- ing, see Death and funeral customs
and beliefs Correspondence, S4-96, 191-204, 296-
3I3> 431-2
Cottington Hill : witchcraft, 427
Council of Folk-Lore Society : election, 4; report, 5- 11
Counting-out rhymes, 107
Counting stars : counter struck dead, Kennet Valley, 419
Counting teeth of comb unlucky, Hebrides, 30
Courting customs and beliefs : Bible and key test, Kennet Valley, 422-3 ; discussed, 445
Couvade, 211
Cow : {see also Calf ; and Cattle) ; byres not thatched with reeds, Hebrides, 32 ; not driven by docken stem, Hebrides, 31 ; dung, fire of, lighted at first birth after 21 or 24 years' marriage, Punjab, 280 : dung used as bath for rheumatism, Bloem- fontein, 181, for floors, Transvaal, 70, to plaster site for worship of Hanuman, N.W. India, 188, as poultice, London, 73-4, Shrop-
shire, 74 ; field mouse sign of ill-luck to, Hebrides, 35 ; in- flamed udder, cure for, Hebrides, 56 ; loss of, unlucky to tell, He- brides, 31-2; milk after calving drunk by dog (not cat), Hebrides, 34 ; village sobriquet, Largitzen, 384 ; weather saying, St. Briavel's, 172
Cow-lady, see Ladybird
Cranbrook : marriage customs, 245-6
Creator : Australian ideas of, 16, 18-21, 355, 403-4, 517
Crewe : 'lifting' custom, 250
Cricket : house, pet and precursor of evil spirit or polong, Malays, 150-1
Crocodile: alligators at "long ju- ju," Niger delta, 170 ; alligator bit off foot of Tezcatlipoca, 88; killing is murder, Malays, Melan- esia, Sumatra, 366
Crom Cruach, Irish idol, 325
Cromlechs : Enstone, 295 ; Steeple Barton, 295
Cronk-ny-Irey-Lhaa (Isle of Man) : spirit of unbaptised, 186-7
Crooke, W. : The Collection of Folk- lore, 302-7 ; An Indian Ghost Story, 280-3; The Lifting of the Bride, 225, 226-51 ; Puli Raja or the Tiger Prince, 79-83 ; Some Notes from North-Western India, 188-90 ; reviews by, — Cheyne and Black's Encyclopicdia Biblica, and Keane's The Gold of Ophir, 2 1 8-9 ; Had- don's Head-Hunters, Black, While, and Brown, 101-3 ; Potter's .S'(?//m(^ and Riisteni, 443-7
Crow: "eaters of crows," village sobriquet, Avalon, 384 ; omens from, Hebrides, 49, St. Briavel's, 171 ; in sayings, Hebrides, 30 ; never shamed, Hebrides, 35 ; as totem, W. Australia, 361
Croyland : St. Wallevus, 216
Crusade connected with the Letter of Toledo, 122
Crystal-gazing, 91
Cuchulainn sagas : birds in, 329 ; Gregory's Cuchiilain ofAhtirtheinne reviewed. 333-5 ; Nutt's Cuchu- lainn, the Irish Achilles reviewed, 332-3 ; dog flesh not to be tasted, 329 ; essentially pagan, 326 ; father- and-son combat, 445 ; refer to early cycle remaining in Mabino- gion, 330-1
