Cambodia, homoeopathic magic used by hunters in, 18; human incarnation of god in, 95; kings of, 108, 167, 224, 266, 284, 289; superstitions regarding the head in, 230; annual expulsion of demons in, 559; palace purged of demons, 563; seclusion of girls at puberty, 602; ritual at cutting a parasitic orchid in, 660, 661
Carinthia, Green George in, 126; ceremony at the installation of a prince of, 287; custom at threshing in, 429
Carlin or Carline, “the Old Woman,” in Scotland, 403
Carnival, dances at the, 28; burying the, 298, 301–307; the burial and resurrection of the, 315; at Rome in the rites of Attis, 350; in relation to the Saturnalia, 586; effigy burnt at end of, 614
Cat, in homoeopathic magic, 32; in raincharm, 72; corn-spirit as, 453; killed at harvest, 453; a representative of the devil, 656; story of a clan whose souls were all in one, 677; a Batak totem, 691, See also Cats
Cat’s cradle as a charm, 20, 79; forbidden to boys among the Esquimaux, 20
Cats, burnt in bonfires, 610, 656; perhaps burnt as witches, 657
Cattle, magical stones for increase of, 33; influence of tree-spirits on, 119; crowned, 126; protected against wolves by charms, 242; last sheaf given to, 400, 407, 408, 412; Yule Boar given to the, 462; driven through, round, or between bonfires, 615, 620, 621, 624, 626–628, 640, 641; protected against sorcery by sprigs of mullein, 629; lighted brands carried round, 647
Cattle disease, Midsummer fires a protection against, 627; plague, need-fire kindled as a remedy for, 641
Caucasus, rain-making in the, 70; sacraments of pastoral tribes in the, 534
Celebes, rain-charms in, 70; hooking souls in, 180; customs at childbirth in, 180; ceremonies for recovering souls in, 186; propitiation of souls of slain enemies in, 212; planting the rice in, 416; customs as to eating the new rice in, 482; the external soul in, 679
Celtic sacrifices, 653, 657; tales of the external soul, 673
Celts, their worship of the oak, 110, 160; annual sacrifice to Artemis, 141; fire-festivals of the, 632
Ceram, island of, sickness expelled in a ship from, 563; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 597; the Kakian association in, 696
Chiefs, supernatural power of, in Melanesia, 84; as magicians, 84; punished for drought and dearth, 86; tabooed, 202; sacred, 205; foods tabooed to, 238; names of, tabooed, 257–259
