| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
Subject Index |
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| Childbirth, precautions taken with mother at, 180, 181; women tabooed at, 207, 208; knots untied at, 238; homoeopathic magic to facilitate, 239 |
| Children, taboos observed by, 21, 22; buried to the neck as a rain-charm, 75; parents named after their, 248; sacrificed, 281, 293, 380, 431; blood of, used to knead a paste, 553 |
| Chilote Indians, 237 |
| China, emperors of, 9; charms in, 35; geomancy in, 36; modes of compelling the rain-god to give rain in, 74; trees planted on graves in, 115; convulsions attributed to the action of demons in, 186; custom as to shadows at funerals in, 190; ceremony at the beginning of spring in, 468; popular superstitions in, 498; human scapegoats in, 566; expulsion of evils in, 567 |
| Chinese empire, incarnate human gods in the, 103 |
| Chinigchinich, Californian god, 499, 500 |
| Chinna Kimedy, in India, 436 |
| Chinook Indians, 256, 599 |
| Chins, the, 551 |
| Chippeway Indians, 605 |
| Chiquites Indians of Paraguay, 526 |
| Chiriguanos of South America, 601 |
| Chitome or Chitombé, a pontiff of Congo, 170, 266, 296 |
| Chittagong, 239 |
| Choctaws, the, 215 |
| Cholera, demon of, 549, 551, 563; sent away in animal scapegoats, 565 |
| Christ, his Nativity, 358; his crucifixion, 359; his resurrection, 359, 360 |
| Christian festivals displace heathen festivals, 360 |
| Christianity, its conflict with the Mithraic religion, 358; and Buddhism, 361 |
| Christians, pretenders to divinity among, 101 |
| Christmas, festival of, borrowed from the Mithraic religion, 358; heathen origin of, 359 |
| Christmas Boar, 462; candles, 637 |
| Church bells, a protection against witchcraft, 560 |
| Ciminian forest, the, 110 |
| Cingalese cure by means of devil-dancers, 542 |
| Cinyras, father of Adonis, 327, 328, 332 |
| Circassia, custom as to pear-trees in, 119 |
| Circe, the land of, 150 |
| Circumcision, 229, 694 |
| Claudius, the Emperor, 3, 348 |
| Clayton, Rev. A. C., 542 |
| Clothes, magic sympathy between a person and his, 43, 44 |
| Clotilde, Queen, 232 |
| Clove trees treated like pregnant women, 115 |
| Cloves, ceremony to make them grow, 137 |
| Clucking-hen at threshing, 451 |
| Clyack sheaf, 408, 425 |
| Coast Murring tribe of New South Wales, 693 |
| Cobra, ceremony after killing a, 222 |
| Coca-mother, among the Peruvians, 413 |
| Coco-nuts sacred in Northern India, 119 |
| Cock, corn-spirit as, 450; name given to last sheaf, 451 |
| Cockatoos, magical multiplication of, 17 |
| Coel Coeth, Hallowe’en bonfire, 635 |
| Coins, from the eyes of corpses, 31; portraits of kings not stamped on, 193 |
| Columbia, British, use of magical images to procure fish in, 18; taboos imposed on parents of twins in, 66; belief regarding a physician and his patient’s soul, 189; Indians’ dislike of telling their own names, 246; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 600; rites of initiation in, 699 |
| Combs, when not to be used, 24, 174, 215, 216 |
| Commagny, the priory of, 77 |
| Communion with deity by eating new fruits, 487 |
| Communion bread, 481 |
| Compitalia, festival of the, 491 |
| Conception in women caused by trees, 119 |
| Congo, recall of stray souls among the tribes, 184; conjuring spirits before drinking in the, 199; royal persons forbidden to touch the ground, 594; rites of initiation on the Lower, 697 |
| Connaught, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, 173 |
| “Consort, the divine,” 142 |
| Constantine, the Emperor, 331 |
| Consumption, cure for, 545 |
| Contact or contagion in magic, law of, 11 |
| Continence, required during search for sacred cactus, 23; practised before fertility ceremonies, 136; practised in order to make crops grow, 138; enjoined on people during rounds of sacred pontiff, 170; of priests, 170; on eve of period of taboo, 173; during war, 210, 211; after victory, 212; by hunters and fishers, 217; by workers in saltpans, 219; at brewing, 219; at house-building, 220; at making and repairing dams, 220; by lion-killers and bear-killers, 221, 222; at festival of first-fruits, 486 |
| Cords, knotted, in magic, 241 |
| Corea, kings responsible for rain and crops, 87; offerings to souls of the dead in trees in, 115; king not to be touched, 224; means of inspiring courage in, 496; use of torches to ensure good crops in, 647 |
| Corinthians make images of Dionysus out of a pine-tree, 387 |
| Cormac Mac Art, king of Ireland, 273 |
| Corn, spirit of the, embodied in human beings, 419; double personification of, as mother and daughter, 420 |
| Corn-baby, 459; -bull, 458; -cat, 453; -cock, 451; -cow, 457; -foal, 460; -goat, 454; -pug, 449; -sow, 448, 460; -steer, 457; -wolf, 450 |
| —— -god, Adonis as a, 338; Attis as a, 353; Osiris as a, 376 |
| —— -mother, 143, 399, 412 |
| —— -reapers, songs of the, 424 |
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