Cabunian, Mount, 3 Cadiz, custom of swinging at, 284 Cadmea, the, 79 Cadmus, servitude of, for the slaughter of the dragon, 70 _n._1, 78; the slayer of the dragon at Thebes, 78 _sq._ —— and Harmonia, their transformation into serpents, 84; marriage of, 88, 89 Caffres, the, 65 Caiem, the caliph, 8 Calabria, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, 241; custom of swinging in, 284 Calendar, the early Greek, determined by astronomical considerations, 68 _sq._; closely bound up with religion, 69; the Syro-Macedonian, 116 _Calica Puran_, an Indian law-book, 217 Calicut, rule of succession observed by the kings of, 47 _sqq._, 206 California, Indians of, 62 Cambodia, Kings of Fire and Water in, 14; annual abdication of the king of, 148 Canaanites, their custom of burning their children in honour of Baal, 168 Canada, Indians of, their ceremony for mitigating the cold of winter, 259 _sq._ Caramantran, death of, on Ash Wednesday in Provence, 226 Carinthia, ceremony at the installation of a prince of, 154 _sq._ Carman, the fair of, 100, 101 Carnival, Burying the, 209, 220 _sqq._; swings taken down at, 287 “Carnival (Shrovetide) Fool,” 231 Carolina, king’s son wounded among the Indians of, 184 _sq._ Carrier Indians, succession to the soul among the, 199 “Carrying out Death,” 221, 233 _sqq._, 246 _sqq._ Carthaginian sacrifice of children to Moloch, 75; to Baal, 167 _sq._ Cassange, in Angola, king of, 203; human sacrifice at installation of king of, 56 _sq._ Cassotis, oracular spring, 79 Castaly, the oracular spring of, 79 Catalonia, funeral of Carnival in, 225 Cattle sacrificed instead of human beings, 166 _n._ 1 Caucasus, funeral games among the people of the, 97 _sq._ Cauxanas, Indian tribe of the Amazon, kill all their firstborn children, 185 _sq._ Cecrops, half-serpent, half-man, 86 _sq._ Celebes, sanctity of regalia in, 202; the Toboongkoos of, 219 Celts of Gaul, their indifference to death, 142 _sq._ Cemeteries, fairs held at, 101, 102 Chaka, a Zulu tyrant, 36 _sq._ Chama, town on the Gold Coast, 129 Chariot-race at Olympia, 91, 104 _sq._, 287 —— races in honour of the dead, 93 Chewsurs, their funeral games, 98 Cheyne, Professor T. K., 86 _n._4 Chilcotin Indians, their practice at an eclipse of the sun, 77 “Child of the assegai,” 183 Children sacrificed to Moloch, 75; sacrificed by the Semites, 166 _sqq._; dislike of parents to have children like themselves, 287 Chinese indifference to death, 144 _sqq._, 273 _sqq._; reports of custom of devouring firstborn children, 180 Chiriguanos, the, of South America, 12 Chirol, Valentine, 274 Chitomé, a pontiff in Congo, the manner of his death, 14 _sq._ Christmas, custom of swinging at, 284 Chrudim in Bohemia, effigy of Death burnt at, 239 Chukchees, voluntary deaths among the, 13 Circassia, games in honour of the dead in, 98