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Children : must not be carried down- wards till named, Kenyahs, 438 ; mental condition analogous to that of uncivilised man, 22-3 ; teeth, beliefs concerning, Hebrides, 32, India, 67, 198 ; must not walk back- wards, Hebrides, 31 ; unbaptised, j£^ Unbaptised; Unlucky and Lucky Children, and some Birth Super- stitions, by H. A. Rose, 278-80 ; Unlucky Children, by H. A. Rose, 3, 63-8, 197-8
Children's games, sea Games
Children's rhymes, see Nursery rhymes
China : {see also Manchus) ; newly dead serve predecessors, 283
Chinese Llotlier Goose Rhymes, by I. T. Headland, reviewed, 108-9
Chipping Norton : unlucky to injure Rollright Stones, 293 ; witchcraft near, 290
Chitral : fairies and banshees, 183-4
Choking from food, omen from, Hebrides, 50
Cholera, goddess of, N. India, iSS
Cholar, see Trikhal or cholar
Chopras : parents re-married after first birth, 279
Chotia Nagpur : {see also Oraons) ; customs, 442
Choti Bala : spring caused by Balochi saint, 260
Christmas : Christmas bough, Lincoln- shire, 202-3; firstfoot, St. Briavel's, 174; frumity eaten at, Lincoln- shire, 92 ; guisers, Staffordshire, 107 ; mumming-play, 296-7 ; in sayings, Hebrides, 38, Kennet Valley, 423; the "vessel cup," Yorks, 94-5 ; wassailing, 95-6
Christmas Eve : cattle kneel, St. Briavel's, 174; fires in cornfields, St. Briavel's, 174 ; Hogmany for- merly on, Hebrides, 45, Spain, 45 ; rosemary flowers, St. Briavel's,
174 Church : bridal party blackmailed by tying door, Whittingham, 238, or locking it, Ilderton, 229-30, 233 ; marriage rite should be per- formed outside chancel, 233; sus- pected murderer taken into tower to touch corpse, Kennet Valley, 422 ; walk round twelve times backwards to become witch, St. Briavel's, 175
Church porch : bride &c. lifted over ' petting stone ' and kissed, Border Counties, 227-30, 233 ; marriage rite originally performed in, 233
Churchyard : hempseed sown. Mid- summer Eve, Kennet Valley, 422
Churingas, Arunta tribe, 363, 412
Cigarettes used in divination, Penang,
Circumcision : Central Asia, 240
Civet-cat : familiar spirit appears as, Kedah, 150
Clan Chattan : cat bad omen to others than, Hebrides 49 ; folk etymology of, 378-9
Clan totems, see Totemism
Clarke, E. W. , The Vessel Cup, 95
Clothes not mended on person, Hebrides, 29-30
Coal carried to protect from dead, Hebrides, 31
Cock : {see also Fowls) ; assigned to child with first tooth, Hebrides, 32 ; black, buried as cure for epilepsy, Hebrides, 56 ; crowing in dream sign of death, Hebrides, 5 ; cut open and applied for pneu- monia, England, 182
Coco-nut palm : charm for collecting sap, Malays. 163-4 ; shrines to make fruitful, 394
Coco-nut shell used in spiritualist performance, Malays, 140
Coldingham : St. Ebba, 215
Colds, cure for, St. Briavel's, 173
Coles, F. R., Scottish Charm against Witchcraft, 275
Collectanea, 69-83, 166-90, 275-95, 403-30
Collection of Folklore, The, by S. O. Addy, 226, 297-9, Miss C S. Burne, 299-302, W. Crooke, 302-7, W. Skeat, 307-10, C. G. Seligman, 310-2, and J. Roscoe, 312-3
Colours, see Black ; Blue ; Dun : Green ; Grey ; Red ; White ; ami Yellow
Comb, hair : teeth not counted, Hebrides, 30 ; not thrown to any- one, Hebrides, 30
Committees : joint with Anthropo- logical Institute, 9 ; lecture, 7, 9
Compass, points of, see North ; and West
Conaire the Great, I-Cing of Tara,
