Crocodiles hunted by savages for their flesh, ii. 208 _n._ 2; often spared by savages out of respect, 208 _sqq._; ceremonies observed at catching, 209 _sqq._; kinship of men with, 212 _sq._, 214 _sq._; respected in Africa and Madagascar, 213 _sqq._; sacred at Dix Cove, 287; souls of dead in, 289, 290, 291, 295 Cronion, a Greek month, ii. 7, 8 _n._ 1 Crooke, W., i. 118 _n._, 234 _n._ 2, ii. 56 _n._ 3 Crops, charms and spells for growth of, i. 100; rotation of, 117; human sacrifices for the, 236 _sqq._ Cross River natives, ii. 115 Crow, head of, eaten to prolong life, ii. 143; transmigration of sinner into, 299 —— Song, the Greek, ii. 322 _n._ Crown of corn-ears, i. 163, 221, 283; worn by Demeter and Persephone, 43 “Crying the Mare” in Hertfordshire, i. 292 _sq._; in Shropshire, 293 “Crying the neck,” i. 264 _sqq._ Cultivation, shifting, i. 99; _see_ Agriculture “Cup of offering,” ii. 184 Curcho, old Prussian god, ii. 133 Curetes, their war-dance, i. 13 Curses uttered by Bouzygai, i. 108 Cuscuses, souls of dead in, ii. 296, 298 Cushing, Frank H., quoted, ii. 175 _sqq._ Cuzco, i. 310 Cycle, the octennial in Greece, i. 80 _sqq._ Cynaetha, i. 16 Cyzicus, i. 16 Dacotas, the, ii. 256 Dama, island of, ii. 101 Damatrius, a Boeotian month, i. 46 Dance at harvest supper, i. 134, 135, 145; of harvesters with or round the last sheaf, 135, 141, 145, 160, 219, 220 _sq._; of masked men before sowing, 186; of Dyaks to secure soul of rice, 188 _sq._; of old women as representatives of the corn-goddess, 205; Pawnee, before human sacrifice, 238; before the king at ceremony of first-fruits, ii. 70 _sq._; of Zulu king, 66, 68 _n._ 3; of medicine-man, 72; the Green Corn Dance, 76; war, 79; by torchlight, 79; of Kansas Indians, 145 “the angel dance,” 328; of mummers at Carnival, 333, 334; of mummer wearing a horse-headed mask, 338 Dances, i. 246, 247; at sowing festival, 95; masked, 95 _sq._, 111, 186, ii. 208 _n._ 1; at the reappearance of the Pleiades, i. 307, 309, 311, 312, 317; in imitation of totemic animals, ii. 76; Mexican, 88; in connexion with offerings of first-fruits, 113, 116, 126, 131, 134; of men personifying deities, 179; of women at bear-festival, 185, 186 _sq._, 191, 195; of women at catching a crocodile, 211; round dead tigers, 216; of the Koryak at the slaughter of bears or wolves, 223; in honour of slain leopards, 228; of Koryak women at slaughter of whales, 232 _sq._; to amuse the souls of dead sea-beasts, 248; of Shrovetide Bear, 325 _sq._; to make the crops thrive, 326, 328, 330 _sq._; of masked men and women in ritual, 339 Dancing for salmon, ii. 255 Danger Island, i. 312 Danzig, harvest customs at, i. 133, 218 _sq._ Darfur, ii. 147 Darwin and Empedocles, ii. 306 Daughter-in-law in ritual, ii. 121 _sq._ Dawkins, R. M., i. 25 _n._ 4, 29 _n._ 2