Cheese, eaten by human scapegoat before being put to death, ix. 255; the Beltane, kept as a charm against the bewitching of milk-produce, x. 154 Cheese Monday, the Monday of the last week in Carnival, celebrated by Thracian and Bulgarian peasants, vii. 26, viii. 333 _Chegilla_, food taboos in Congo, iii. 137 Cheltenham, Jack-in-the-Green at, ii. 82 _sq._ Chemakum tribe of Washington State, prohibition to mention the names of the dead in the, iii. 365 Chemistry, alchemy leads up to, i. 374 Chemmis in Egypt, temple of Perseus at, iii. 312 _n._ 2 _Chêne-Doré_, “the gilded oak,” in Perche, xi. 287 _n._ 1 Chenourazah, king of the Maldive Islands, ii. 153 Chent-Ament (Khenti-Amenti), title of Osiris, vi. 87 Chephren, king of Egypt, his statue, vi. 21 _sq._ Chepstow oak, in Gloucestershire, mistletoe on the, xi. 316 Cheremiss, the, of Russia, their sacred groves, ii. 44; will not fell trees while the corn is in bloom, ii. 49; keep the names of their villages secret, iii. 391; their custom at eating the new corn, viii. 51; offer cakes instead of horses, viii. 95 _n._ 2; their expulsion of Satan, ix. 156; their Midsummer festival, x. 181 Chero, the, of Mirzapur, their contagious magic of footprints, i. 209 Cherokee Indians, their myth of the Old Woman of the Corn, vi. 46 _sq._; their lamentations after “the first working of the corn,” vi. 47; annual expulsion of evils among the, ix. 128. _See also_ Cherokees —— hunters pray to the eagles they have killed, viii. 236; ask pardon of the deer they kill, viii. 241 —— mythology, viii. 204 _sq._ —— sorcery with spittle, iii. 287 _sq._