Cadmus, servitude of, for the slaughter of the dragon, iv. 70 _n._ 1, 78; the slayer of the dragon at Thebes, iv. 78 _sq._; seeks Europa and founds Thebes, iv. 88; at Samothrace, iv. 89 _n._ 4; turned into a snake, v. 86 _sq._; perhaps personated by the Laurel-bearer at Thebes vi. 241 Cadmus and Harmonia, their transformation into serpents, iv. 84; marriage of, iv. 88, 89 ——, Mount, v. 207 Cadys, king of Lydia, ii. 281; his son Sadyattes, v. 183 Caeculus born from the fire, ii. 197; son of the fire-god Vulcan, vi. 235 Caeles Vibenna, an Etruscan, ii. 196 _n._ Caelian hill at Rome, ii. 185, 190 Caesar, Julius, robs Capitoline Jupiter, i. 4; his villa at Nemi, i. 5; his beneficent rule, i. 216; on the Hercynian forest, ii. 7; as to German observation of the moon, vi. 141; his regulation of the calendar, vi. 37, vii. 83 _sq._, ix. 345; on the fortification walls of the Gauls, x. 267; on human sacrifices among the Celts of Gaul, xi. 32 Caesar, Lucius, his villa at Nemi, i. 5 Caesarea. _See_ Everek Caesars, their name derived from _caesaries_, ii. 180 Caffre boys at circumcision, customs observed by, iii, 156 _sq._ —— girls, their remedy for a plague of caterpillars, viii. 280 —— hunters, their ceremonies after killing a lion, iii. 220; their propitiation of the elephants which they kill, viii. 227 —— kings turn at death into boa-constrictors, iv. 84 —— villages, women’s tracks at, x. 80 Caffres, their rule as to eating mice, i. 118; corpulence a mark of rank among the, ii. 297; race for a bride among the, ii. 303; their superstitions as to their shadows, iii. 78 _sq._, 83, 87; think that the shadows of trees are sensitive, iii. 82; expiation performed by man who had killed a boa-constrictor among the, iii. 221 _sq._; their horror of the pollution of blood, iii. 245 _sq._; their custom as to the blood of sacrifice, iii. 247; their disposal of their cut hair and nails, iii. 278; their use of knots as a charm on a journey, iii. 306; their custom of boiling a thief’s name, iii. 331; call brides after their future children, iii. 333; “women’s speech” among the, iii. 335 _sq._; their purificatory ceremonies after a battle, vi. 251 _sq._; their festival of new fruits, viii. 64 _sqq._; inoculation with powdered charcoal among the, viii. 159 _sq._; their custom of fumigating infants, viii. 166 _sq._; will not eat the sinew of the thigh, viii. 266 _n._ 1; their custom of adding stones to heaps, ix. 11; their prayers at cairns, ix. 30 Caffres of Natal, their rain-charm by means of a black sheep, i. 290; their festival of first-fruits, viii. 64 _sqq._ —— of Sofala, their dread of hollow things, i. 157 _sq._