Crops supposed to be spoiled by menstruous women, i. 79, 96; leaping over bonfires to ensure good, 107; Midsummer fires thought to ensure good, 188, 336; torches swung by eunuchs to ensure good, 340; bull-roarers sounded to promote the growth of the, ii. 232 Cross River natives, their lives bound up with those of certain animals, ii. 202 _sq._, 204 —— -roads, ceremonies at, i. 24; witches at, 160 _n._ 1; Midsummer fires lighted at, 172, 191; divination at, 229; bewitched things burnt at, 322 Crosses chalked up to protect houses and cattle-stalls against witches, i. 160 _n._ 1, ii. 74 Crow, hooded, sacrifice to, i. 152 _Crowdie_, a dish of milk and meal, i. 237 Crown or garland of flowers in Midsummer bonfire, i. 184, 185, 188, 192; of Roses, festival of the, 195. _See also_ Flowers Cruachan, the herdsman or king of, Argyleshire story of, ii. 127 _sqq._; in Connaught, the cave of, i. 226 _Cryptocerus atratus_, F., stinging ants, i. 62 Cuissard, Ch., on Midsummer fires, i. 182 _sq._ Cumae, the Sibyl at, i. 99 Cumanus, inquisitor, ii. 158 Cumberland, Midsummer fires in, i. 197 Cups, special, used by girls at puberty, i. 50, 53 Curative powers ascribed to persons born feet foremost, i. 295 Cures, popular, prescribed by Marcellus of Bordeaux, i. 17 Cursing a mist in Switzerland, i. 280 Cuzco, ceremony of the new fire in, i. 132 Cycle of thirty years (Druidical), ii. 77 Cycles of sixty years (Boeotian, Indian, and Tibetan), ii. 77 _n._ 1 Cythnos, Greek island, sickly children pushed through a hole in a rock in, ii. 189 Czechs cull simples at Midsummer, ii. 49 Dacotas or Sioux, ritual of death and resurrection among the, ii. 268 _sq._ Daedala, Boeotian festival of the Great, ii. 77 _n._ 1 Dairy, mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive, ii. 86 Daizan, king of Atrae, i. 83 Dalhousie Castle, the Edgewell Tree at, ii. 166 Dalmatia, the Yule log in, i. 263 Dalyell, J. G., on Beltane, i. 149 _n._ 1 Damun, in German New Guinea, ceremony of initiation at, ii. 193 Danae, the story of, i. 73 _sq._ Dance at Sipi in Northern India, i. 12; of young women at puberty, ii. 183; in the grave at initiation, 237; in honour of the big or grey wolf, 276 _n._ 2 Dances of fasting men and women at festival, i. 8 _sq._; of Duk-duk society, 11; of girls at puberty, 28, 29, 30, 37, 42, 50, 58, 59; round bonfires, 108, 109, 110, 111, 114, 116, 120, 131, 142, 145, 148, 153 _sq._, 159, 166, 172, 173, 175, 178, 182, 183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 191, 193, 194, 195, 198, 246, ii. 2, 39; masked, bull-roarers used at, 230 _n._; of novices at initiation, 258, 259 Dancing with the fairies at Hallowe’en, i. 227 Dandelions gathered at Midsummer, ii. 49 Danger apprehended from the sexual relation, ii. 277 _sq._ Dangers thought to attend women at menstruation, i. 94 Danish stories of the external soul, ii. 120 _sqq._