GENERAL INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Lawson, J. C. (John Cuthbert)
description of smaller species of, 193;
development of superstition concerning, 254;
dialectic forms of name, 211 ff.;
footgear of, 221; general habits of, 194;
how outwitted, 196–200;
identified with Centaurs, 235;
identified with were-wolves, 208;
offerings to, 201, 232;
originally anthropomorphic, 206;
origin of name, 211 ff.;
power of transformation possessed by, 204, 240;
precautions against, 200–202;
resembling Satyrs and Centaurs, 192;
sources of their features and attributes, 237 ff.;
stories concerning, 196–200;
their activity limited to Christmastide, 221;
their relation to Satyrs, etc., 229 ff.;
two main classes of, 191;
variously represented, 190;
whether demons or men originally, 209 ff.;
wives of, 200
Callicantzaros, The Great, 195
Callirrhoë, as sacred spring, 555
Candles, thrown into grave at funeral, 512
‘Captain Thirteen,’ a folk-story, 75
Carnival, celebrations of, 224 ff.
Cat, jumping over dead person, 410;
omens drawn from, 328
Caves, haunted by Nymphs, 160
Cenotaphs, 490
Centauros, son of Ixion, 242
Centaurs (see Callicantzari), 190–255;
and Lapithae, 242;
as wizards, 248 f.;
compared with Callicantzari, 253;
general character of, 246;
Heracles’ fight with, 253;
how represented in Art, 247;
in Hesiod, 242;
in Homer, 243;