Celts, their worship of the oak, ii. 9, 362 _sq._, xi. 89; their worship of the Huntress Artemis, ii. 125 _sq._; their worship of Arduinna, ii. 126; holy fires tended by virgins among the, ii. 240; in Asia, ii. 363; their theory of names, iii. 319; their festival of All Souls, vi. 81 _sq._; their mode of forecasting the weather of the year, ix. 323 _sq._; their two great fire-festivals on the Eve of May Day and Hallowe’en, x. 222, 224 ——, the British, their chief fire-festivals, Beltane and Hallowe’en, xi. 40 _sq._ —— of Brittany, their use of mistletoe, xi. 320 —— of Gaul, their harvest festival, i. 17; their indifference to death, iv. 142 _sq._; their calendar, ix. 342 _sqq._; their human sacrifices, xi. 32 _sq._; the victims perhaps witches and wizards, xi. 41 _sq._; W. Mannhardt’s theory of the sacrifices, xi. 43 —— of Ireland, their belief in the blighting effect of incest, ii. 116; their new fire on Hallowe’en, x. 139 —— of northern Italy, xi. 320 Celts (prehistoric implements), called “thunderbolts,” x. 14 _sq._ Cemeteries, cut hair and nails buried in, iii. 274; fairs held at, iv. 101, 102 Cenaed, king of the Scots, ii. 286 Censorinus, on the date of the rising of Sirius, vi. 34 _n._ 1; on the octennial cycle, vii. 81 _n._ 4, 82 _n._ 2, 86 _sq._ Centipedes not to be called by their proper name, iii. 407, 411 Central Provinces of India, belief as to twins in, i. 269; use of frogs in rain-charms in, i. 293; ceremonies observed by rearers of silk-worms in the, iii. 194 _n._ 1; gardens of Adonis in the, v. 242 _sq._; custom as to cutting the last corn at harvest in the, vii. 222 _n._ 2; the Parjas of the, viii. 27 _sq._, 28, 119; customs as to first-fruits in the, viii. 118 _sq._; the Gadbas of the, viii. 118; the Mannewars of the, viii. 119; the Nahals of the, viii. 119; cholera expelled by means of chickens in the, ix. 190; cure for fever in the, xi. 190 Ceos, Greek island of, funeral customs in, i. 105; the rising of Sirius observed in, vi. 35 _n._ 1; rule as to the pollution of death in, vi. 227; sick children passed through a cleft oak in, xi. 172