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
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
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
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
Cunning of the weaker animals, 22
Czechs, 22