Chota Nagpur, i. 244 Christmas, i. 134; boar sacrificed at, 302. _See also_ Yule —— Day, ii. 319, 320 —— drama, ii. 327 _sq._ —— Eve, i. 302, ii. 318, 321 Chuckchees, the, ii. 221 _Churn_, last corn cut, i. 151, 153, 154 _sq._ Cicero, on the gift of the corn, i. 58; on transubstantiation, ii. 167 Cinteotl, Mexican Maize-god, i. 176 Circumcision, i. 316, ii. 153 Clarke, E. D., at Eleusis, i. 64; quoted, 146 Clement of Alexandria on the Eleusinian mysteries, i. 39 Cleostratus of Tenedos, i. 81 _Clyack-kebback_, i. 160 _Clyack_ sheaf, i. 158 _sqq._, ii. 43 Cnossus, i. 82, 85 Cobra-capella, guardian-deity of Issapoo, ii. 174 Cochin China, tigers respected in, ii. 217 Cock, corn-spirit as, i. 276 _sqq._; killed on harvest field, 277 _sq._; white, sacrificed, ii. 117, 118 —— -sheaf, i. 276 _Cogiour_, a sacred pontiff, ii. 114 Cohabitation of husband and wife enjoined as a matter of ritual, ii. 69, 70 _n._ 1 _Colluinn_, custom of beating a cow’s hide, ii. 323, 324 Colombian Indians, ii. 286 Communal taboos, i. 109 _n._ 2 Communion with deity, ii. 83, 325 Compitalia, a Roman festival, ii. 94, 96, 107 Complexity of religious phenomena, ii. 36 Confession of sin, ii. 69 Congo, the Lower, i. 115; the Upper, 119 Conjunction of sun and moon, ii. 15 _n._ 1 Conservation of energy, ii. 262 Constantinople protected against flies and gnats, ii. 281 Contact with sacred things is deemed dangerous, ii. 27 _sqq._ —— between certain foods in stomach of eater forbidden, ii. 83 _sqq._, 90 Contest, Ancestral, at the Eleusinian Games, i. 71, 74, 77 Contests for possession of the corn-spirit, i. 74 _sq._, 180; between binders of corn, 136, 137, 138, 218 _sq._, 220, 221, 222, 253; between reapers, 74 _sq._, 136, 140, 141, 142, 144, 152, 153 _sq._, 164 _sq._, 219, 253; between threshers, 147 _sqq._, 218, 219 _sq._, 221 _sq._, 223 _sq._, 253 Continence, ceremonial, ii. 75, 81, 93; prescribed at festival, 248 —— and fasting, ii. 14 Coomassie, ii. 62, 63 Coorgs, the, ii. 55 Corea, ii. 122; use of effigies in, 105 Corn, ear of, revealed to initiates at the rites of Eleusis, i. 38; personified as Demeter, 42; first-fruits of, offered to Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, 53 _sqq._; first bestowed on the Athenians by Demeter, 54; personified as female, 130; wreath of, 134; double personification of, as mother and daughter, 207 _sqq._; the first corn cut, customs connected with, 214 _sq._; the new, eaten sacramentally, ii. 48 _sqq._; sanctity of the, 110 —— and poppies as symbols of Demeter, i. 43 _sq._ —— Baby, i. 152, 292 —— -bull, i. 291 —— -cow, i. 289 —— -ears, Queen of the, i. 146; crown of, 163, 221, 283 —— -fool, i. 148 —— -goat, i. 282, 283, 286, 287 —— -maiden, i. 150; in Northern Europe, 129 _sqq._ —— -mallet at threshing, i. 148 —— -man, i. 223; the goal of a women’s race at harvest, 76 _sq._