Celebes, the, and the soul, i. 123-125; custom regarding infested persons, i. 154; superstition regarding the knife, i. 177; blood not spilt on the ground by the, i. 182; custom at a birth, ii. 329; harvest festival, ii. 376 Celtic human sacrifices, ii. 278-284; the external soul in Celtic stories, ii. 313, 314 Ceram, rain-making in, i. 13; superstition regarding the blood of women in, i. 187; hair cutting superstition in, i. 194; ii. 328; disease boats in, ii. 185, 186; ceremony in epidemic, ii. 187; seclusion of girls in, ii. 229; initiation ceremony, ii. 354-356 Chaeronea, human scapegoat in, ii. 210, 211 Chambéry, threshing ceremony at, ii. 23 Chedooba, ceremony on felling a tree in the island of, i. 64 Cheremiss, expulsion of Satan by the, ii. 180, 181 Cherokee Indians, purification festival of the, ii. 166, 167 Chester, procession of mock giant at, ii. 281 Chibchas, weather kings of the, i. 44 Children sacrificed by their parents, i. 235-237 Chile, preservation of cut hair in, i. 204 China, emperors of, offer public sacrifices, i. 8; rain-charm in, i. 18; emperor held responsible for drought, etc., i. 49; abstention from knives after a death in, i. 177; ceremony to welcome the return of spring in, ii. 42, 43; special seat of courage amongst the Chinese, ii. 87; cannibalism in, ii. 89; human scapegoat in, ii. 191; festival of the aboriginal tribes of, ii. 193 Chios, rites of Dionysus at, i. 329 Chippeways, seclusion of women amongst the, ii. 239, 240 Chiriguanos, seclusion of girls by the, ii. 231 Chitomé, the, i. 113-115; not allowed to die a natural death, i. 217, 218 Cholera, driving away, ii. 161, 189, 191 Chontal Indians, the nagual amongst the, ii. 333 Christian, Captain, shooting of, i. 181 Christmas customs, i. 60, 334; ii. 6, 7, 29-31, 141, 142, 144 Chrudim, ceremony of carrying out Death at, i. 259, 260 Chuwash, the, test of a suitable sacrificial victim, i. 36 Circassians, the pear-tree believed to be the protector of cattle by the, i. 73 Circumcision, i. 171 Clucking-hen, ii. 8 Cobern, fire festival at, ii. 250 Cobra Capella, sacrifice of the, ii. 94, 95 Cock, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 7-10 Columbia River, Indians of the, and the salmon, ii. 121, 122 Comanches, rain-charm used by the, i. 18 Compitalia, festival of the, ii. 83 Congo belief in the souls of trees, i. 60; the Chitomé in the kingdom of, i. 113; negroes and soul selling, i. 139; initiatory rites in the valley of the, ii. 345, 346 Coorg rice-harvest ceremonies, ii. 72, 73 Corea, kings of, confined to their palaces, i. 164; may not be touched, i. 172; tigers’ bones valuable in, ii. 87 Corn drenched as a rain-charm, i. 286; double personification of the, i. 358, 359; reaper, binder, or thresher wrapt up in corn, i. 370, 371 —— baby, ii. 23 —— goat, ii. 13, 14 —— mother, i. 232, 233; a prototype of Demeter, i. 356 Corn queen, i. 341