Circumcision of father as a mode of redeeming his offspring, 181; mimic rite of, 219 _sq._ Cities, Etruscan ceremony at the founding of, 157 Cloud-dragon, myth of the, 107 Cluis-Dessus and Cluis-Dessous, custom of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, 241 _sq._ Cnossus, Minos at, 70 _sqq._; the labyrinth at, 75 _sqq._ Cobra, the crest of the Maharajah of Nagpur, 132 _sq._ Cock, king represented with the feathers of a, 85 Colchis, Phrixus in, 162 Congo, the pontiff Chitomé in, 14 Conjunction of sun and moon, a time for marriage, 73 Consecration of firstlings, 172 Contempt of death, 142 _sqq._ Contests, dramatic, between actors representing Summer and Winter, 254 _sqq._ Conti, Nicolo, 54 Conybeare, F. C., 5 _n._3 Cook, A. B., 71 _n._2, 78 _n._2, 79 _n._1, 80, 81 _n._1, 82 _ns._1 and 3, 89 _n._5, 90 Corannas of South Africa, custom as to succession among the, 191 _sq._ Corea, custom of swinging in, 284 _sq._ Cornaby, Rev. W. A., 273 Cornford, F. M., 91 _n._7 Corn-harvest, the first-fruits of the, offered at Lammas, 101 _sq._ —— -spirit called the Old Man or the Old Woman, 253 _sq._ Cornwall, temporary king in, 153 _sq._ Corporeal relics of dead kings confer right to throne, 202 _sq._ Courtiers required to imitate their sovereign, 39 _sq._ Cow as symbol of the moon, 71 _sq._ Crane, dance called the, 75 Crassus, Publicius Licinius, 96 Creation, myths of, 106 _sqq._; Babylonian legend of, 110 Creator, the grave of the, 3 Crete, grave of Zeus in, 3 Criminals sacrificed, 195 Crocodile clan, 31 Cromm Cruach, a legendary Irish idol, 183 Cronus buried in Sicily, 4; his sacrifice of his son, 166, 179; his treatment of his father and his children, 192; his marriage with his sister Rhea, 194 Crooke, W., 53 _n._1, 157 _n._5, 159 _n._1 Crown of laurel, 78, 80 _sqq._; of oak leaves, 80 _sqq._; of olive at Olympia, 91 Crowning, festival of the, at Delphi, 78 _sqq._ Cruachan, the fair of, 101 Crystals, superstitions as to, 64 _n._6 Cupid and Psyche, story of, 131 Cutting or lacerating the body in honour of the dead, 92 _sq._, 97 Cuttle-fish, expiation for killing a, 217 Cychreus, king of Salamis, 87 Cycle, the octennial, based on an attempt to reconcile solar and lunar time, 68 _sq._ Cyclopes, slaughter of the, 78 _n._4 Cytisorus, 162 Czechs of Bohemia, 221 Daedalus, 75 Dahomey, royal family of, related to leopards, 85; religious massacres in, 138 Daira or Mahadev Mohammedans in Mysore, 220 Dalton, Colonel E. T., 217 Danakils or Afar of East Africa, 200 Dance of youths and maidens at Cnossus, 75 _sqq._; Ariadne’s, 77 Dardistan, custom of swinging in, 279 Darfur, Sultans of, 39 Dassera festival of Nepaul, 277 Daura, a Hausa kingdom, 35; custom of succession to the throne in, 201 David, King, and the brazen serpent, 86