Cock, effigy of, in bonfire, i. iii; a black, used as counter-charm to witchcraft, 321; white, burnt in Midsummer bonfire, ii. 40; external soul of ogre in a, 100; killed on harvest-field, 280 _n._; red, killed to cure person struck by lightning, 298 _n._ 2 —— or hen, striking blindfold at a, ii. 279 _n._ 4 Cock’s blood poured on divining-rod, ii. 282 Cockchafer, external soul in a golden, ii. 140 Cockchafers, witches as, i. 322 Coco-nut, soul of child deposited in a, i. 154 _sq._ —— palm planted over navel-string and afterbirth of child, ii. 161, 163, compare 164; attracts lightning, 299 _n._ 2 Codrington, Dr. R. H., on the Melanesian conception of the external soul, ii. 197 _sq._ _Coel Coeth_, Hallowe’en bonfire, i. 239 Cohen, S. S., i. 128 _n._ 1 Coil, sick children passed through a, ii. 185 _sq._ Cold food, festival of the, in China, i. 137 Cole, Lieut.-Colonel H. W. G., on a custom of the Lushais, ii. 185 _sq._ Colic, popular remedies for, i. 17; leaping over bonfires as a preventive of, 107, 195 _sq._, 344; attributed to witchcraft, 344 Coll, the Hole Stone in the island of, ii. 187 Colleda, an old Servian goddess, i. 259 Cologne, St. John’s fourteen Midsummer victims at, ii. 27 Colombia, the Goajiras of, i. 34 _n._ 1; Guacheta in, 74 Combe d’Ain, i. 114 Comminges, Midsummer fires in, i. 192 _sq._ Community, welfare of, bound up with the life of the divine king, i. 1 _sq._; purified in the persons of its representatives, ii. 24 Condé, in Normandy, i. 266 Conductivity, electric, of various kinds of wood, ii. 299 _n._ 2 Conflagrations, bonfires supposed to protect against, i. 107, 108, 140, 142, 344; brands of Midsummer bonfires thought to be a protection against, 165, 174, 183, 188, 196; the Yule log a protection against, 248 _sq._, 250, 255, 256, 258; Midsummer flowers a protection against, ii. 48; mountain arnica a protection against, 58; oak-mistletoe a protection against, 85 Conflict of calendars, solar and lunar, i. 218 Congo, seclusion of girls at puberty on the Lower, i. 31; birth-trees on the, 161 _sq._; theory of the external soul on the, ii. 200; use of bull-roarers on the, 229 ——, the French, the Fans of, ii. 161 ——, the Lower, rites of initiation on the, ii. 251 _sqq._ Connaught, Midsummer fires in, i. 203; cave of Cruachan in, 226; palace of the kings of, ii. 127 Connemara, Midsummer fires in, i. 203 Constance, the Lake of, ii. 26 Constantinople, column at, ii. 157 Consumption, ashes of the Midsummer fires a cure for, i. 194 _sq._; transferred to bird, ii. 187 Consumptive patients passed through holes in stones or rocks, ii. 186 _sq._ Continence as preparation for walking through fire, ii. 3 Conty, Lenten fires at, i. 113 Conway, Professor R. S., on the etymology of Soranus, ii. 15 _n._ 1 Cook, A. B., on the oak of Errol, ii. 284 _n._ 1