Cook, menstruous women not allowed to, i. 80, 82, 84, 90 Copper needle, story of man who could only be killed by a, ii. 314 Corannas, a Hottentot people, children after an illness passed under an arch among the, ii. 192 Cords tied tightly round the bodies of girls at puberty, i. 92 _n._ 1 Corea, custom observed after childbirth by women in, i. 20; use of torches to ensure good crops in, 340 Cormac, on Beltane fires, i. 157 Cor-mass, procession of wicker giants at Dunkirk, ii. 34 Corn, charm to make the corn grow tall, i. 18; thrown on the man who brings in the Yule log, 260, 262, 264; blazing besoms flung aloft to make the corn grow high, 340 —— -spirit in last standing corn, i. 12; human representatives of, put to death, ii. 25; in animal shape, 43 Cornel-tree wood used to kindle need-fire, i. 286 Cornwall, Snake Stones in, i. 15, 16 _n._ 1; Midsummer fires in, 199 _sq._; burnt sacrifices to stay cattle-disease in, 300 _sq._; holed stone through which people used to creep in, ii. 187 Corpse, priest of Earth forbidden to see a, i. 4 Corpus Christi Day, processions on, i. 165 Corrèze and Creuse, departments of, St. John’s fires in the, i. 190 Corsica, Midsummer fires in, i. 209 Cos, effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, i. 130; Midsummer fires in, 212 Cosquin, E., on helpful animals and external souls in folk-tales, ii. 133 _n._ 1 _Cosse de Nau_, the Yule log, i. 251 Costa Rica, Indians of, their customs in fasts, i. 20; ceremonial uncleanness among the, 65 _n._ 1; the Bri-bri Indians of, 86; the Guatusos of, ii. 230 _n._ Coudreau, H., quoted, i. 63 _sq._ Coulommiers, in France, notion as to mistletoe at, ii. 316 _n._ 1 Counter-charm for witchcraft, “scoring above the breath,” i. 316 _n._ 2 Couples married within the year obliged to dance by torchlight, i. 115, 339 Coventry, Midsummer giants at, ii. 37 Cows, witches steal milk from, i. 343; mistletoe given to, ii. 86; milked through a hole in a branch or a “witch’s nest,” 185 Crackers burnt to frighten ghosts, ii. 17, 18 Cracow, Midsummer fires in the district of, i. 175 Cream, ceremony for thickening, i. 262 Creek Indians, their dread of menstruous women, i. 88 Creeping through a tunnel as a remedy for an epidemic, i. 283 _sq._; through cleft trees as cure for various maladies, ii. 170 _sqq._; through narrow openings in order to escape ghostly pursuers, 177 _sqq._ Creuse and Corrèze, departments of, St. John’s fires in the, i. 190 Criminals shorn to make them confess, ii. 158 _sq._ Croatia, Midsummer fires in, i. 178 Croats of Istria, their belief as to the activity of witches on Midsummer Eve, ii. 75 Crocodile, a Batta totem, ii. 223 Crocodiles, fat of, i. 14; lives of persons bound up with those of, ii. 201, 202, 206, 209; external human souls in, 207, 209 Cronus, cakes offered to, i. 153 _n._ 3