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Cain, Children of, 139

Calf, The “wise,” 275;
charm for a suckling calf, 350

Cannibal innkeeper, The, 259

Car, The Great (Great Bear), 80

Cards, Playing, The gipsies and, 24

Carnation, The, as test of sex, 282

Carpenters, The, and the Cross, 184, 190

Carpocapsa pomonella, 123

Cat, The, the animal of the devil, 123;
enmity with the dog and mouse, 208, 209, 360;
eats the devil as mouse, 212, 214;
basks in the sun on the doorstep, 214;
as priest (popa), 312;
the tom cat and the vixen, 332;
fights the wolf, etc., 334;
and the carcase of the horse, 335;
and man, 339;
why it eats mice, 359;
why he does not recognize his master, 362;
and the mouse in the ark, 363

Cathars, The, 26, 31, 41, 45, 46, 50, 52, 54, 123

Catholic Church and Arianism, 45;
and the Bible, 47;
and Mariolatry, 49;
and persecution of heretics, 53

Catholic countries, The saints in, 40

Ceremonies and customs, 36

Cerna, 117

Charles II., 55

Charms, 58;
bull-flies’ horns against evil eye, 103;
saw-fly, to obtain abundant milk, 109;
hornets to make a dog savage, 140;
crow water for philtres, 175;
children’s teeth and crows, 175;
against the mole wart, 179;
the Lady Mary, mouse, and spider, 186;
against the sparrow, 197;
insect egg ring, 204;
against fleas, etc., 221;
generally, 222;
against bugs, 223;
against the illness of animals, 348–354

Charon, 21, 244

Cherries, Lady Mary and the, 202

Children in the wood, 225

Christ, 39;
and the goat’s knees, 88;
and the thrush, 153;
curses the sparrows, 195;
and the yellow bird, 205.
See also Jesus

Christian, The first, executed for heresy by Christians, 46

Christian tales, Apocryphal, 344

Christianity and the unity of folk-lore, 11;
and ancient myths, 12;
the Goths and, 42;
in Rumania, 52

Christians and the heathen, 130

Christmas, Old (person), 346

Christmas carols, Mystical, 57;
the shepherd and the sheep (God and the lamb), 94;
the hart and the making of the world, 95;
the devil stealing the sun, 99;
the wooing of the sister of the sun, 245;
the sun legend in, 246;
the wooing of a fairy, 247;
the swan maiden, 256;
the Lord’s justice, 346

Christophorus, 287

Church, Animal satires and the, 32

Churches, Eastern and Western, The division between, 44

“Cinderella,” 34;
Cinderella story variant, 275

Civilization, The, of the near East, 56

Clergy, Satire of, in animal tales, 32

Cloot, Pierre, 33

Clouds, The, and the rat, 318

Clovis, King, 43, 45

Coccinella septempundata, 113

Cock Robin cycle, 55

Colouring, The, of animals, 148, 156

Comparisons in folk-lore, Haphazard, 12

Constantinople, 52;
evergreen oak in, 88

Continuity in folk-tales, 10, 15, 16

Conybeare, Prof., 30

Cosmogonic legends, 26, 38

Cosquin’s Tales, 57, 258, 266

Cossack Tales (Bain), 335

Cow, Charm for a, against the evil eye, 350;
against snakebite, 351;
called by the names of days, 350 n.

Cow-fly, The, 102

Cowherd, The rude, and the gad-fly, 114, 116

Cox, Miss, Cinderella, 34

Creation, Conception of, 39

Creation of man, 38

“Creation” tales, 1, 4, 22, 34, 35, 57;
their date, 27;
in Russia, 53

Cricket, The, origin, 205, 206, 207

Cricket, The little, 107

Crow, The, the ugliness of fledglings, 170, 172;
the hawk as godmother, 172;
hatred of the hawk, 174;
crow charms, 175;
tom cat and the, 334

Crown of paradise, The, 256

Crucifixion, The, 184, 190, 195

Crusades, The, 41

Cuckoo, The legend of the, 49;
steals St. Peter’s horses, 77;
and glow-worms, 77;
Ballad of the knight and the dragon, 117;
and the hoopoe, 162, 164;
its origin, 164;
and the wonderful bush, 164;
headman, judge, and emperor, 165;
and a palace for the goldfinch, 168;
silent in winter, 169;
why it says “cuckoo,” 226, 286;
lends its tuft to the hoopoe, 229;
captain of Alexander’s army, 285;
his Amazon wife, 286;
and the Armenian, 288;
pleads for man, 340

“Cuckoo’s ring”, 204

Culex pipiens, 199

“Culture,” 2

Cumans, 15, 18

Cunning of the weaker animals, 22

Czechs, 22

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