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INDEX
Corn queen, i. 341
—— spirit, the, as the grandmother, etc., i. 336-343; as youthful, i. 343-346; death of, i. 363, 364; binding persons in sheaves as representatives of the, i. 367-372; pretence of killing the, or its representative, i. 372-380; represented by a stranger, i. 375-380; represented by a human victim, i. 390-395; how the representative is chosen, i. 393; as an animal, ii. 1-67; as a cock, ii. 7-10; as a hare, ii. 11; as a cat, ii. 11, 12; as a goat, ii. 12-17; as a bull, ii. 19-24; as a calf, ib.; as a cow, ii. 20, 21; as a mare, ii. 24, 25; as a horse, ii. 26; as a pig, ii. 26-31; parallelism between the anthropomorphic and theriomorphic conceptions of the, ii. 32; death of the, ii. 33; suggested explanation of the embodiment of the, in animal form, ii. 34; the ox as the embodiment of the, ii. 41-43
—— wolf, ii. 3-7, 30
—— woman, i. 342, 343
Cornwall, May-day custom in, i. 75; midsummer bonfires in, i. 101; ii. 262; reaping cries in, i. 407
Corsica, midsummer fires in, ii. 266
Cough, cure for, ii. 154
Court ceremonies, i. 22, 23; ii. 88
Cow, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 20, 21; sacred, ii. 61; man in cow’s hide, ii. 145, 146; cow as a scapegoat, ii. 200, 201
Cracow, harvest customs in, i. 340
Crannon, rain-charm at, i. 21
Creek Indians, festival of the first-fruits amongst the, ii. 75-78; opinions held regarding the properties of various foods amongst the, ii. 85, 86; seclusion of women by the, ii. 239
Crete, sacrifices in, i. 173; festival of Dionysus in, i. 324; worship of Demeter in, i. 331
Croatia, beating in, ii. 216
Crocodiles spared from fear of the vengeance of other crocodiles, ii. 109
Crops, kings and priests punished for the failure of the, i. 46-4; human sacrifices for the, i. 383, 384; ceremonies at the eating of the new, ii. 69, 71; sacramental eating of the new, ii. 68-77
Crying the Neck, i. 405-408
Curka Coles of India, their belief that the tops of trees are inhabited, i. 65
Curse, ceremony of making the curse to fly away, ii. 150, 151
Cyzicus, construction of the council chamber of, i. 174
Dacotas and the resurrection of the dog, ii. 123
Daedala, festival of the, i. 100-103
Dahomey, king of, a capital offence to see him eat, i. 162
Damaras, custom of the, after travel, i. 158; blood of cattle not shed by the, i. 182
Danae, ii. 237
Danger Islanders, soul snare used by the, i. 138, 139
Danzig, burying of cut hair in, i. 202; reaping custom, i. 333; harvest ceremony, i. 367, 368
Dards, the, rain-charm, i. 19
Darfur, veiling the sultan of, i. 162; the sultans and their courtiers, i. 222; the liver thought to be the seat of the soul in, ii. 88
Darowen, midsummer bonfires at, ii. 262
Dead Sunday, i. 254, 260
Death, preference for a violent, i. 216, 217; superstition concerning, i. 260; “carrying out,” i. 257-261, 264-271; ii. 207; driving out, i. 258, 259, 272, 276; in the custom of “carrying out” Death is probably a divine scapegoat, ii. 206-208; ceremonies at the burying of, ii. 250 ; effigy of, i. 257 sq.
Debden, May Day custom in, i. 76
Deer, regard for, ii. 117, 118
Deities, reduplication of, i. 360-362
Demeter, the corn mother, i. 331, 332; festivals of, ii. 44-47; as a pig, ii. 44-49; legend of the Phigalian, ii. 49; representation of the black, ii. 49; and Proserpine, myth of, i. 330, 331; probable origin of, i. 355 sq.; prototypes of, i. 356, 357
Demons, the soul carried off by, i. 132-135
Denderah, tree of Osiris at, i. 308
Denmark Christmas customs, ii. 29, 30; midsummer bonfires, ii. 289
Devils, ceremony at the expulsion of, ii. 151, 158, 159-162, 170-185, 192, 193, 203; represented by men and expelled, ii. 183-185
Devonshire reaping cries, i. 405, 406; rain-charm, i. 408; cure for cough, ii. 154
Diana, rule of the priesthood of, i. 2, 3, 6; ceremonies at the festival of, i. 5; Arician Grove said to be first consecrated to her by Manius Egerius, i. 5; a tree goddess, i. 105
Diana’s mirror, i. 1
