Changes of shape, magical, vii. 305 Chants, plaintive, of corn-reapers in antiquity, vi. 45 _sq._ “Charcoal Man” at Midsummer, xi. 26 _n._ 2 Charente Inférieure, department of, St. John’s fires in the, x. 192 Chariot in rain-charm, i. 309; procession with god riding in a, ii. 130; patient drawn through the yoke of a, xi. 192 —— and horses dedicated to the sun, i. 315 Chariot-race at Olympia, iv. 91, 104 _sq._, 287; annual, on the Field of Mars at Rome, viii. 42 —— -races in honour of the dead, iv. 93 Chariots, epidemics sent away in toy, ix. 193 _sq._; used by sacred persons, x. 4 _n._ 1 Charlemagne, x. 270; compared to Osiris, vi. 199 Charles I. touches for scrofula, i. 368 Charles II. touches for scrofula, i. 368 _sq._; champion at his coronation, ii. 322 Charlotte Waters, in Central Australia, the Blind Tree at, i. 147 Charm to protect a town, vi. 249 _sqq._ Charms to ensure long life, i. 168 _sq._; to prevent the sun from going down, i. 316 _sqq._; to facilitate childbirth, iii. 295 _sq._ _See also_ Amulets, Magic, Talismans Charon, places of, v. 204, 205 _Charonia_, places of Charon, v. 204 Chasas of Orissa believe that leprosy is caused by injuring a totemic animal, viii. 26 _sq._ “Chasing the Wild Man out of the bush,” a Whitsuntide custom, iv. 208 _sq._ “Chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” viii. 17 Chaste young men kindle need-fire, x. 273 Chastity observed for sake of absent persons, i. 123, 124, 125, 131; required of rain-doctor, i. 271; practised to make the crops grow, ii. 104 _sqq._; required of persons who handle dishes and food, ii. 115 _sq._, 205; Milton on, ii. 118 _n._ 1; as a virtue not understood by savages, ii. 118; observed by sacred men, perhaps the husbands of a goddess, ii. 135, 136; observed by sacred women, ii. 137; observed by women in making pottery, ii. 204; required in those who make fire by friction, ii. 238 _sq._; observed by women at festival of the corn-goddess, v. 43; ordeal of, v. 115 _n._ 2; required in sower of seed, vii. 115 _sq._; observed by matrons at the Thesmophoria, vii. 116; required in service of sacred serpent, viii. 18; required of hunter before hunting bears, viii. 226; associated with abstinence from salt, x. 27 _sq._ _See also_ Continence Château-Thierry, Midsummer fires at, x. 187 _sq._ Chateaubriand, his description of the Natchez festival, viii. 135 _sqq._ Chatham Islands, birth-trees in the, xi. 165 Chatti, German tribe, their custom as to their hair, iii. 262 Chauci, a German tribe, on the North Sea, ii. 353 Chauta, Master, prayer for rain to, i. 250 _Chavandes_, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 109 _n._ 2 Chavantes, Indian tribe of the Tocantins River, iv. 12 _n._ 5 Cheadle, in Staffordshire, the Yule log at, x. 256