Cherokees, homoeopathic magic of plants among the, i. 144, 146 _sq._; their charms to ensure success in ball-playing, i. 144, 155; foods avoided by the, on homoeopathic principles, i. 155; homoeopathic magic of animals among the, i. 155 _sq._; their charm to become good singers, i. 156; their charm to strengthen a child’s grip, i. 156; their mode of averting an evil omen, i. 172; their custom as to children’s cast teeth, i. 180; their treatment of the navel-string, i. 198; their mode of averting a storm, i. 321; try to deceive the spirits of rattlesnakes and eagles, iii. 399; think that to step over a vine blasts it, iii. 424; personify maize as an Old Woman, vii. 177; their way of attracting the corn, vii. 190; their festival of first-fruits, viii. 72 _n._ 2; their belief in the homoeopathic magic of the flesh of animals, viii. 139; no clear distinction between animals and men in their mythology, viii. 204 _sq._; their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 218 _sq._; their ceremonies at killing a wolf, viii. 220 _sq._; their propitiation of the eagles which they have killed, viii. 236; their custom of removing the hamstring of deer, viii. 266; their sacred arks, x. 11 _sq._; their ideas as to trees struck by lightning, xi. 296 _sq._ Cherrington, in Warwickshire, the Queen of May at, ii. 88 Cherry-tree, charm to make it bear fruit, i. 141; wood used for Yule log, x. 250 —— -trees, branches of, used to beat people with in the Christmas holidays, ix. 270; torches thrown at, x. 108 Chersonese, the Thracian, iv. 93 Chervil-seed burnt in Midsummer-fire, x. 213 Cheshire, May-poles in, ii. 70 _sq._; popular cure for rheumatism in, iii. 106 _n._ 2; All Souls’ Day in, vi. 79; Plough Monday in, viii. 330 _n._ 1; cure for thrush in, ix. 50; cure for warts in, ix. 57 _Chesnitsa_, Christmas cake in Servia, x. 261 Chester, Midsummer giants at, xi. 37 Chet, Indian month (March-April), iv. 265 Chetang, mountains of, in Tibet, ix. 220 Chetti worshipped in the Deccan, vii. 7 _Chevannes_, bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, x. 111 _n._ 1 Chevas of South Africa, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331 _n._ 2 Chewsurs of the Caucasus, their rain-charm, i. 282; taboos observed by an annual official among the, iii. 292 _sq._; their annual Festival of All Souls, iv. 98, vi. 65; their funeral games, iv. 98 Cheyenne Indians, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 54 _sq._ —— women secluded at menstruation, x. 89 Cheyne, Professor T. K., on the brazen serpent, iv. 86 _n._ 4; on lament for kings of Judah, v. 20 _n._ 2 Chhatarpur, in Bundelcund, ceremony for stopping rain at, i. 296 _sq._ Chiambioa Indians of Brazil, their masked dances, viii. 208 _n._ 1 Chiaromonte in Sicily, Midsummer custom at, x. 210 Chibchas (Muyscas or Mozcas), the, of Colombia, their reverence for the pontiff of Sogamozo, i. 416