Corn-mother, i. 150; in Northern Europe, 131 _sqq._; in last sheaf, 133 _sqq._; in America, 171 _sqq._; in many lands, 171 _sqq._ —— -pug, i. 273 —— -reapers, songs of the, i. 214 _sqq._ —— -sow, i. 298 Corn-spirit, contests for possession of the, i. 74 _sq._, 180; conceived as old, 136 _sqq._; in last sheaf threshed, i. 139, 147, 168, ii. 48; represented in duplicate, i. 139; conceived as young, 150 _sqq._; as Bride and Bridegroom, 162 _sqq._; as male and female, 164, ii. 9; as female, both old and young, i. 164 _sqq._; represented by person who cuts, binds, or threshes the last corn, 167 _sq._, 220 _sqq._, 236, 253 _sq._; fertilising influence of, 168; its influence on women, 168; represented by human beings, 168, 204 _sqq._, ii. 333; in form of an old man, i. 206 _sq._; in first corn cut, 215; personal representative of, killed in mimicry, 216; killing the, 216 _sqq._, 223 _sqq._; represented by a puppet, 224; represented by a stranger, 225 _sqq._; conceived as poor and robbed by the reapers, 231 _sqq._; slain in his human representatives, 251 _sqq._; the neck of the, 268; as animal, 270 _sqq._; on the animal embodiments of the, 303 _sqq._; as wolf or dog, 271, _sqq._, ii. 327; the tail of the, i. 268, 272, 300, ii. 10, 43; as cock, i. 276 _sqq._, 277 _sq._; as hare, 279 _sq._; as cat, 280 _sq._; as goat, 281 _sqq._, ii. 327; lame, i. 284; slain in the form of a goat, 284 _sq._, 287; as bull, cow, or ox, 288 _sqq._, ii. 8; killed in form of bull, i. 290, 291 _sq._; killed at threshing, 291 _sq._; as horse or mare, 292 _sqq._; in form of calf, 292; as a bird, 295; as fox, 296 _sq._; as pig (boar, sow), 298 _sqq._; represented by an ox, ii. 9 _sqq._; killed in animal form and eaten sacramentally, 20; as a bear, 325 _sqq._; represented dramatically, 325; as a boar, 328; represented by a man called the Straw-bear, 329 —— -stalks, harvesters wrapt up in, i. 220 _sqq._ —— -wolf, i. 272, 273, 275 —— -woman, i. 230, 233; at threshing, 149 Corners of fields not to be reaped, i. 234 _sq._ Corpus Christi Day, i. 310 Cos, harvest-home in, i. 47 Cotton, treatment of first cotton picked, ii. 119 Courage seated in gall-bladder, ii. 145 _sq._ Cow, corn-spirit as, i. 288 _sqq._ Cow’s hide, thresher of last corn wrapt in, i. 291; custom of beating the, ii. 322 _sqq._ Cows milked by women, i. 118; and their milk, superstitions as to, ii. 84 _n._ 1 and 2 Cranes, trumpeting of the, signal for ploughing, i. 45 Creek Indians, ii. 72, 139 Cretan festival of Dionysus, i. 14 _sq._ —— myth of Dionysus, i. 13 Crete, ancient seat of worship of Demeter, i. 131; pig not eaten in, ii. 21 _n._ 1 Cries of reapers, i. 263 _sqq._ Cripple Goat, the, i. 284 Crocodile, clay image of, ii. 279 —— -catchers, rules observed by, ii. 209 _sq._