Cæsar, food taboos in Britain, 286-91 Canary Islanders, custom, 325 Catskin story, 59-66 cattle, telling of death to, 162 Celtic mythology, 103 Celtic tribes of Britain, 25-28, 103-5, 111, 310 Ceylon evidence, 31 Chadwick (H. M.), quoted, 223 charms, 188 Cheshire evidence, 162 child relationship to parents, 232 child thought, 186, 187 Childe Rowland story, 314-15 children not related to parents, 61, 268, 271 Christianity and paganism, 320-37 church ceremony of marriage, 90-1 church, sacred character of objects and buildings, 197-9 churning superstition, 202 civil war pamphlets, 195 Claddagh fisherfolk, 279 clan songs, 97 class system in Australian totemism, 264, 265, 270, 272 classification, false, of folklore, 166 Clonmel witch case, 205 club, for killing the aged, 74-76 cock as a totem animal, 286, 289 comparative folklore, 170-9 conjectural method of inquiry, 225-6, 239, 250 conquered, mythic influence of, 345-9 conscious use of experience or observation, 211, 212 conquest in man's history, 219 Cook (A. B.), quoted, 106, 108 Cornwall evidence, 20, 55, 162, 164, 193, 196, 324 Crawley (E.), quoted, 155 Crayford legend, 43 creation myths, 130-9 Cromm Cruaich, 344 Cuchulain, totem descent of, 286 Cuerdale hoard of coins, 30-31 Cumberland evidence, 162, 184, 323 custom, belief, and rite, 10, 123, 125, 154-70 Cynuit, fight with Danes at, 5-6 Danish conquest in tradition, 22, 31, 41, 192 Darwin (C.), quoted, 213, 224, 247 death beliefs, 191-2 death, telling of, to bees, 162 decay the principal force in folklore, 157-9, 319 definitions, 129 Demeter temple custom, 150 Derbyshire evidence, 162 descent, use of the term, 270 Devonshire evidence, 5, 95, 96, 324 differential evolution, 228 diffusion of folk-tales, 153 dog as a totem animal, 286 doom rings, 323 doors, decoration of, 334 Dorsetshire evidence, 45, 94 dreams, 13-20, 188 Druidism, 341, 342-4 duplication of myth, 33, 34 Durham evidence, 162, 184, 324 Easter-tide, 328 economic influences upon early man, 219, 257 Egyptian civilisation, 108 Elton (C.), quoted, 73, 74, 78, 114, 286, 290, 344 Essex evidence, 95 ethnographic movements of man, 216 ethnological conditions, 338-66 Eucharist, sacred elements of, 197 European conditions, 320-37 European sky god, 106 Evans (Arthur), quoted, 209 Exeter custom, 96 exogamy, 252, 271 fact, basis of tradition upon, 10, 47-49 fairs, 45 family, the term, 235-7 Farrer (J. A.), quoted, 145 father kinship, 231, 259 father and daughter marriage, 59-66 female descent, 271 festivals, pagan in origin, 328 fictional literature, 6, 123, 145 Fijian creation myth, 131 Fir-Bolgs, 101 fire, non-use of, 218 fire worship, 106, 108, 160, 163, 317 first foot custom, 162, 164 fish as a totem, 290 folklore, necessities of, 4-7 folk-tales, 46-84, 123, 127, 129, 148-9 food taboos in ancient Britain, 286 formula of custom, 159 fox totem in Connaught, 278-80 Frazer (J.), quoted, 62, 108-9, 110, 140, 228, 253, 255, 265, 274, 283, 285, 287, 329, 338, 339, 365 Fuegians, 247
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