—— custom in Bohemia, ii. 325 Carolina, Indians of, ii. 217 Carrier Indians, ii. 238 _sq._ Cassava (manioc) bread, i. 120 _sq._ Cassowaries, souls of dead in, ii. 295 Cassowary totem, ii. 207 Castabus, ii. 85 Cat, corn-spirit as, i. 280 _sq._; killed at harvest, i. 281 Cat’s cradle, i. 101, 103 —— tail, name given to last standing corn, i. 268 Catalangans, the, ii. 124 Caterpillars, superstitious precautions against, ii. 275 _sq._, 279, 280 Catholic custom of eating effigies of the Madonna, ii. 94 Cattle, last sheaf given to, i. 134, 155, 158, 161, 170; (plough oxen) Yule or Christmas Boar given to, the, 301, 302, 303; worship of, ii. 35, 37 _sqq._; first-fruits offered to, 118 Caul-fat, human, rubbed on body, ii. 162 Cayenne, Indians of, 285 _sqq._ Celebes, i. 313, ii. 54, 122, 123; precautions against mice in, 277 Celeus, king of Eleusis, i. 37 Censorinus, i. 86, 87 Central Provinces of India, ii. 118 _sq._ Ceram, ii. 54, 123 Cereal deity, ii. 52, 83 Cereals in Europe, antiquity of the cultivation of, i. 79; cultivated by the early Aryans, 132 Ceremony of the Horse at rice-harvest among the Garos, ii. 337 _sqq._ Ceres, i. 42; festival of, 297 _n._ 5; the, in France, 135; Roman sacrifices to, ii. 133 Chadwars, the, ii. 28 Chaka, Zulu despot, ii. 67 Chambéry, harvest customs at, i. 275, 288, 291 _sq._ Chams, the, of Indo-China, ii. 283; their agricultural ceremonies, 56 _sqq._; their belief in transmigration, 291 _sq._ Changes of shape, magical, i. 305 Chasas, the, of Orissa, ii. 26 “Chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” ii. 17 Chastity required in sower of seed, i. 115 _sq._; of hunter before hunting bears, ii. 226 Chateaubriand, his description of the Natchez festival, ii. 135 _sqq._ Cheese Monday, i. 26, ii. 333 Cheremiss, the, ii. 51 Cherokee hunters, ii. 236, 241 —— mythology, ii. 204 _sq._ Cherokees, the, ii. 72 _n._ 2, 139, 220; their respect for rattlesnakes, 218 _sq._; their custom of removing the hamstring of deer, 266 Chicome couatl, Mexican Maize-goddess i. 176 Chief, sacred, ii. 28; acting as priest, 126; sacrifices to dead, 113 Chiefs, spirits of dead, give rain, ii. 109; deified after death, 125; souls of dead, in lions, 287 _sq._ Child born on harvest-field, pretence of, i. 150 _sq._ Childbed, deceiving the ghosts of women who have died in, ii. 97 _sq._ Children at birth placed in winnowing-fans, i. 6 _sqq._; guarded against evil spirits, 6 _sqq._; employed to sow seed, 115 _sq._; sacrificed at harvest, 236 China, ceremony at beginning of spring in, ii. 10 _sqq._ Chinese, their theory as to courage, ii. 145 _sq._ —— of Amoy, their use of effigies, ii. 104 —— ceremony of ploughing, ii. 14 _sq._ —— use of sieve or winnowing-fan, i. 6, 9 _sq._ Chinigchinich, a Californian god, ii. 170 Chinna Kimedy, i. 247, 249 Chins, the, of Upper Burma, ii. 121 Chiquites of Paraguay, ii. 241 Chiriguanos, the, Indians of Bolivia, ii. 140, 286