Courage seated in gall-bladder, ii. 145 _sq._
Cow's hide, thresher of last corn wrapt in, i. 291; custom of beating the, ii. 322 _sqq._
Cows milked by women, i. 118; and their milk, superstitions as to, ii. 84 _n._ 1 and 2
Cranes, trumpeting of the, signal for ploughing, i. 45
Crete, ancient seat of worship of Demeter, i. 131; pig not eaten in, ii. 21 _n._ 1
---- -catchers, rules observed by, ii. 209 _sq._
Crocodiles hunted by savages for their flesh, ii. 208 _n._ 2; often spared by savages out of respect, 208 _sqq._; ceremonies observed at catching, 209 _sqq._; kinship of men with, 212 _sq._, 214 _sq._; respected in Africa and Madagascar, 213 _sqq._; sacred at Dix Cove, 287; souls of dead in, 289, 290, 291, 295
Crooke, W., i. 118 _n._, 234 _n._ 2, ii. 56 _n._ 3
Crops, charms and spells for growth of, i. 100; rotation of, 117; human sacrifices for the, 236 _sqq._
Crow, head of, eaten to prolong life, ii. 143; transmigration of sinner into, 299
Crown of corn-ears, i. 163, 221, 283; worn by Demeter and Persephone, 43
"Crying the Mare" in Hertfordshire, i. 292 _sq._; in Shropshire, 293
Cultivation, shifting, i. 99; _see_ Agriculture
Cushing, Frank H., quoted, ii. 175 _sqq._
Cycle, the octennial in Greece, i. 80 _sqq._
Dance at harvest supper, i. 134, 135, 145; of harvesters with or round the last sheaf, 135, 141, 145, 160, 219, 220 _sq._; of masked men before sowing, 186; of Dyaks to secure soul of rice, 188 _sq._; of old women as representatives of the corn-goddess, 205; Pawnee, before human sacrifice, 238; before the king at ceremony of first-fruits, ii. 70 _sq._; of Zulu king, 66, 68 _n._ 3; of medicine-man, 72; the Green Corn Dance, 76; war, 79; by torchlight, 79; of Kansas Indians, 145 "the angel dance," 328; of mummers at Carnival, 333, 334; of mummer wearing a horse-headed mask, 338
Dances, i. 246, 247; at sowing festival, 95; masked, 95 _sq._, 111, 186, ii. 208 _n._ 1; at the reappearance of the Pleiades, i. 307, 309, 311, 312, 317; in imitation of totemic animals, ii. 76; Mexican, 88; in connexion with offerings of first-fruits, 113, 116, 126, 131, 134; of men personifying deities, 179; of women at bear-festival, 185, 186 _sq._, 191, 195; of women at catching a crocodile, 211; round dead tigers, 216; of the Koryak at the slaughter of bears or wolves, 223; in honour of slain leopards, 228; of Koryak women at slaughter of whales, 232 _sq._; to amuse the souls of dead sea-beasts, 248; of Shrovetide Bear, 325 _sq._; to make the crops thrive, 326, 328, 330 _sq._; of masked men and women in ritual, 339