| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
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| California, the shaman in, 88; killing the sacred buzzard in, 499; Indians of, 599, 707 |
| Caligula and the priest of Nemi, 3 |
| 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 |
| Cambodian story of the external soul, 668 |
| Camel, plague transferred to, 540 |
| Cameroons, the external soul in the, 681; theory of, 685 |
| Camomile, burnt in Midsummer fire, 631 |
| Camp shifted after a death, 252 |
| Campbell, Major-General John, 436, 437 |
| ——, Rev. J. G., 403 |
| Camphor, 21, 24 |
| Canadian Indians, 525, 526 |
| Candlemas, 134, 461 |
| Candles, 3; magical, 30; of human tallow, 56 |
| Cannibal feast, legendary, at the Boeotian Orchomenus, 292 |
| Cannibalism, 233, 391, 497 |
| Caprification, 580 |
| Car Nicobar, expulsion of devils in, 567 |
| Caramantran, death of, 304 |
| Caribs, the, 27, 495, 690 |
| 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 |
| Carolina, Indians of, 519 |
| Caroline Islands, 40, 218; traditionary origin of fire in the, 707 |
| Carpathus, laying out of corpses in, 243 |
| Carrier Indians of North-West America, 18, 219, 606 |
| “Carrying out Death,” 125, 302, 307–316, 577, 613, 614 |
| Carthage, Christians worshipping each other at, 101; the effeminate priests of the Great Mother at, 356 |
| Carthaginian sacrifice of children to Moloch, 281 |
| Carver, Captain Jonathan, 698 |
| Castration, 347, 350 |
| 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 |
| Catat, Dr., 193 |
| Caterpillars, precautions against, 531 |
| Catholic Church, 335, 345 |
| Catholic custom of dedicating candles, 3; as to partaking of the Eucharist, 488 |
| Catlin, George, 88 |
| 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 |
| Cayor in Senegal, the king of, 172 |
| Cazembes of Angola, the, 203 |
| Cecrops, king of Athens, 155 |
| Cedar, sacred, 95 |
| Cedar-tree, girl sacrificed to a, 112 |
| 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 |
| Ceres, the, in France, 401 |
| Cetchwayo, king of Zululand, 257 |
| Ceylon, ogres in, 669; king of, and his external soul, 669, 670 |
| Chaka, the Zulu despot, 86 |
| Chams of Cochinchina, 29, 220 |
| Charms, to ensure long life, 35; to prevent the sun from going down, 79; to facilitate childbirth, 238 |
| Chasas of Orissa, 473 |
| Chastity observed for sake of absent persons, 23, 24; as a virtue not understood by savages, 139. See also Continence |
| Chatti, German tribe, 232 |
| Cheese, the Beltane, 620 |
| Chent-Ament, title of Osiris, 375 |
| Cheremiss of Caucasus, the 262, 560 |
| Cherokees, the, 29, 40, 372, 520 |
| Chibchas, the, 104 |
| Chicomecohuatl, Mexican goddess, 589 |
| 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 |
| Chilcotin Indians, 78 |
| Child, name given to last sheaf, 406; born on harvest field, pretence of, 406 |
| Childbed, woman in, thought to control the wind, 80; souls of women dying in, live in trees, 115; taboos on women in, 208 |
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