Index.
407
Charon, 275
Chaucer's view of the fairies, 35
Chen, Mexican name for a month,
333 Cheshire, medicinal folklore of, 389 Chiaro, L. M. del, 9 Chickweed poultices for boils, 388,
hot for pains in head and neck,
389
Child, presence of lucky at weddings, 92
China dog baked in pie, 193, 202. 390
China, folklore of, 201, 334, divinify- ing of idols in, 335, lawsuit against a god, 339
Chipping Warden (Northants.) morris- dances of, 317, 318
Chlorosis, cure for, 389
Cholera demon charmed into a jar,
352 Chrestien of Troyes, 296, 300 Christ {see also Jesus), crucifixion of,
276, called Earendel, 290 Christian children, alleged sacrifice
of, by the Jews, 276 Christian element in European folk- lore, 370, 372 Christianity in Ireland, effect on
Tuatha de Danann literature, 42,
367, and the Renaissance, 52 Christmas customs, Derbyshire, 70,
Russia, 85 Christmas Eve. in relation to witches,
2, were-wolves and maidens, 9 Chthonic deities, 351, 354 Church moved and rebuilt, 279 Church-tower, morris-dancing on, 318 Churchyard-games, see Football, and
Games Churning customs in Donegal, 14, 18 Classification of Orendel-tales, 298 Clonmany, and the fish, 17 Clothing used in witchcraft, 6, 7 Clouds, as ghosts, and mounts for
ghosts, 239 Clouston, W. A., Obituary, 94 Clown or fool called ' Squire,' of the
Oxfordshire festivals, 309, 314, 317 Cnapan, a Welsh Ball-game, 175 Cocoanut, part-god of the Koramas,
Cobra, the, Indian beliefs concerning,
285 Cock of the Woods, or Capercaillie,
fertilisation of, 375 Cock crowing before midniglit a bad
omen, 15
Cockchafer, pie, a 'blason' 364 " Cockey Brown," Oxfordshire morris- dancers' song, 318 Columkille, and the fish of Clonmany,
17
Columns of Ingolf, the, 178 Combing the hair on Wednesday and
Sunday, unlucky, 380, 381 Combs to avert witchcraft, 8 Comfrey, use of in folk-medicine,
Communion with the divine by means
of sacrifice, 46, 349 Conall Cernach, Ijirth-story, locale of,
366 Conall Gulban, story classified, 299,
301 Conchobor, birth-story of, and locale
366 .
"Constant Billy," Oxfordshire morris- dancers' song, 318, words and air, 321
Contributions to the Science of My- thology, by Prof. F. Max Muller, reviewed, 152, quoted, 351
Conversion of St. Paul, feast of, in relation to witches, 2
Cord or rope as means of mystic connection, 343, Buddhist rite, 343
Cords, knotted used by witches, 5, 6,
Corinth, worship of Aphrodite, 264 Cork, (County) folklore of, funeral customs, 76, 180, folk-medicine in, 179 Corns, cure for, 389 Cornwall, folklore of, 72 Corpse, burial, 368, burning, 369 Corpse-Candles, in Scotland, 205, modern instances, 210, 240, distinct from the 'Dreug,' 241, in Wales, 205 Corpus Inscriptionum Atticartitn : Appendix continens defixionnm tahulas, edited by R. Wrench, re- viewed, 361 Correspondence, 68, 173, 279, 374 Cotton tree, sacred, in Dahome, 353 Council and officers for 1897, 26 Couvade, of the Tibareni, 379 Cows, shot by fairies, 15 Crawley, hunting rights of, 3 1 1 Criminals worshipped in Sicily, 199 Croesus, 343
Cromm Cruaich, Irish idol, 44 Crom Dubh, 368 Crooke (William), on Dozzils, and
