—— district, heads of chiefs buried secretly in the, vi. 104 ——, Old, sacred grove of, ii. 42; annual expulsion of demons at, viii. 108; biennial expulsion of demons at, ix. 203 _sq._ —— River, iv. 197, ix. 28 Calabash, ceremony of breaking the, at festival of new fruits, viii. 68 _n._ 3 Calabashes, souls shut up in, iii. 72 Calabria, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, iv. 241; custom of swinging in, iv. 284; Easter custom in, v. 254; murderers taste the blood of their victims in, viii. 156; annual expulsion of witches in, ix. 157; holy water at Easter in, x. 123 Calah, ancient capital of Assyria, annual marriage of the god Nabu at, ii. 130 Calamities, almost all, set down to witchcraft, xi. 19 _sq._ Caland, Dr. W., on the magical nature of Vedic ritual, i. 229 Calauria, Poseidon worshipped in, v. 203 _n._ 2 Calbe, in the Altmark, the He-goat at harvest near, vii. 287 Calchaquis Indians of Paraguay, their way of keeping off death, iii. 31 Calcutta, keys as amulets in, iii. 236 Caldwell, Bishop R., on devil-dancers in Southern India, i. 382 Calenberg, holy oak near, ii. 371 Calendar, regulation of the early, an affair of religion, iv. 69, vii. 83; the natural, vi. 25; change in Chinese, x. 137; the reform of the, in relation to floral superstitions, xi. 55 _n._ 1 Calendar, the Alexandrian, used by Plutarch, vi. 84; used by Theophanes, ix. 395 _n._ 1 —— of the primitive Aryans, ix. 325 ——, the Babylonian, ix. 398 _n._ 2 —— of the Celts of Gaul, ix. 342 _sq._ ——, the Coligny, i. 17 _n._ 2, ix. 342 _sqq._ ——, the Coptic, vi. 6 _n._ 3 ——, the Egyptian, vi. 24 _sqq._; date of its introduction, vi. 36 _n._ 2 —— of the Egyptian farmer, vi. 30 _sqq._ —— of Esne, vi. 49 _sq._ ——, the ancient Greek, determined by astronomical considerations, iv. 68 _sq._; regulated by the moon and of little use to the husbandman, vii. 52 _sq._, 80 —— of the Indians of San Juan Capistrano in California, vii. 125 _sq._ ——, the Julian, vi. 93 _n._ 1; used by Mohammedans, x. 218 _sq._ —— of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, vi. 29 _n._, ix. 171 —— of the ancient Mexicans, its mode of intercalation, vi. 28 _n._ 3 ——, the Mohammedan, x. 216 _sq._, 218 _sq._ —— of Philocalus, v. 303 _n._ 2, 304 _n._ 3, vi. 95 _n._ 1 ——, the Roman, vii. 83 _sq._ ——, the Syro-Macedonian, iv. 116 Calendars, the Roman Rustic, vi. 95 _n._ 1; the Pleiades in primitive, vii. 307 _sqq._; conflict of, x. 218 _Calendeau, calignau_, the Yule-log at Marseilles, x. 250 Calf shod in buskins sacrificed to Dionysus, vii. 33; the genitals of, served up to man who gave last stroke at threshing, vii. 148; killed at harvest, vii. 290; mythical, in the corn, vii. 292; name applied to bunch of corn on harvest-field, vii. 292; sacrifice of buffalo, viii. 314; burnt alive to stop a murrain, x. 300 _sq._ _See also_ Calves _Calica Puran_, an Indian law-book, i. 63, iv. 217