Caffres, their festival of new fruits, ii. 64 _sqq._; their custom of fumigating infants, 166 _sq._; of South Africa, their observation of the Pleiades, i. 315; of the Zambesi region, ii. 289
_Cailleach_ (Old Wife), name given to last corn cut, i. 140 _sqq._, 164 _sqq._
Calabash, ceremony of breaking the, ii. 68 _n._ 3
Calabria, custom observed by murderers in, ii. 156
Calendar, regulation of, an affair of religion, i. 83; the Roman, 83 _sq._; primitive, 125 _sq._
Calendars, the Pleiades in primitive, i. 307 _sqq._
Calf sacrificed to Dionysus, i. 33; killed at harvest, 290; sacrifice of buffalo, ii. 314
California, Indians of, i. 125, ii. 169, 286
Californian missions, the Spanish, ii. 171 _n._ 1
Callias, the Eleusinian Torch-bearer, i. 54, 73 _n._ 3
Cannibals, a secret society of the Kwakiutl Indians, i. 20
Carcassone, hunting the wren at, ii. 320 _sq._
Carinthia, harvest custom in, i. 224 _sq._
Carnival, modern Thracian drama at the, i. 26 _sqq._, ii. 331
Cat, corn-spirit as, i. 280 _sq._; killed at harvest, i. 281
---- tail, name given to last standing corn, i. 268
Caterpillars, superstitious precautions against, ii. 275 _sq._, 279, 280
Catholic custom of eating effigies of the Madonna, ii. 94
Cattle, last sheaf given to, i. 134, 155, 158, 161, 170; (plough oxen) Yule or Christmas Boar given to, the, 301, 302, 303; worship of, ii. 35, 37 _sqq._; first-fruits offered to, 118
Celebes, i. 313, ii. 54, 122, 123; precautions against mice in, 277
Central Provinces of India, ii. 118 _sq._
Cereals in Europe, antiquity of the cultivation of, i. 79; cultivated by the early Aryans, 132
Ceremony of the Horse at rice-harvest among the Garos, ii. 337 _sqq._
Ceres, i. 42; festival of, 297 _n._ 5; the, in France, 135; Roman sacrifices to, ii. 133
Chambéry, harvest customs at, i. 275, 288, 291 _sq._
Chams, the, of Indo-China, ii. 283; their agricultural ceremonies, 56 _sqq._; their belief in transmigration, 291 _sq._
"Chasms of Demeter and Persephone," ii. 17
Chastity required in sower of seed, i. 115 _sq._; of hunter before hunting bears, ii. 226
Chateaubriand, his description of the Natchez festival, ii. 135 _sqq._
Cherokees, the, ii. 72 _n._ 2, 139, 220; their respect for rattlesnakes, 218 _sq._; their custom of removing the hamstring of deer, 266