Charente Inférieure, department of, St. John’s fires in the, i. 192 Chariot, patient drawn through the yoke of a, ii. 192 Chariots used by sacred persons, i. 4 _n._ 1 Charlemagne, i. 270 Chaste young men kindle need-fire, i. 273 Chastity associated with abstinence from salt, i. 27 _sq._ Château-Tierry, Midsummer fires at, i. 187 _sq._ Chatham Islands, birth-trees in the, ii. 165 _Chavandes_, bonfires, i. 109 _n._ 2 Cheadle, in Staffordshire, the Yule log at, i. 256 Cheese, the Beltane, kept as a charm against the bewitching of milk-produce, i. 154 _Chêne-Doré_, “the gilded oak,” in Perche, ii. 287 _n._ 1 Chepstow oak, in Gloucestershire, ii. 316 Cheremiss of the Volga, their Midsummer festival, i. 181 Cherokees, their sacred arks, i. 11 _sq._; their ideas as to trees struck by lightning, ii. 296 _sq._ Cherry-tree wood used for Yule log, i. 250 —— -trees, torches thrown at, i. 108 Chervil-seed burnt in Midsummer fire, i. 213 _Chesnitsa_, Christmas cake, i. 261 Chester, Midsummer giants at, ii. 37 _Chevannes_, bonfires, i. 111 _n._ 1 Cheyenne Indians, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 54 _sq._ —— women secluded at menstruation, i. 89 Chiaromonte, Midsummer custom at, i. 210 Chibisa, an African chief, ii. 314 _Chicha_, a native intoxicant, i. 57, 58 Chicory, the white flower of, opens all locks, ii. 71 Chief’s daughter, ceremonies observed by her at puberty, i. 30, 43 Chikumbu, a Yao chief, ii. 314 Chilblains, the Yule log a preventive of, i. 250 Childbirth, customs observed by women after, i. 20 Childless couples leap over bonfires to procure offspring, i. 214, 338 Childless women creep through a holed stone, ii. 187 Children live apart from their parents among the Baganda, i. 23 _n._ 2; born feet foremost, curative power attributed to, 295; passed across the Midsummer fires, 182, 189 _sq._, 192, 203; passed through holes in ground or turf to cure them, ii. 190 _sq._ Chillingworth, Thomas, passed through a cleft ash-tree for rupture, ii. 168 _sq._ Chimney, witches fly up the, ii. 74 —— -piece, divination by names on, i. 237 China, were-wolves in, i. 310 _sq._; annual ceremony of the new fire in, 136 _sq._, ii. 3; use of fire to bar ghosts in, 17 _sq._; spirits of plants in snake form in, 44 _n._ 1; use of mugwort in, 60 Chinese festival of fire, ii. 3 _sqq._; story of the external soul, 145 _sq._; theories as to the human soul, 221 Chinook Indians, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 43 Chippeway Indians, their dread and seclusion of menstruous women, i. 90 _sq._ Chiquites Indians of Paraguay, their theory of sickness, ii. 226 _n._ 1 Chirbury, in Shropshire, the Yule log at, i. 257 Chiriguanos of Bolivia, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 56 Choctaw women secluded at menstruation, i. 88 Chopping-knife, soul of woman in childbirth transferred for safety to a, ii. 153 _sq._