C.
Cabalists, [238]
Callot and gypsies, [258]
Calvin, [239]
Candle, in love-charm, [120]
Candles, Blessed, [42]
Cane inspired by a spirit, [229]
Carlyle, Thomas, [185]
Carmen mirum ad Glandulas, [221]
Carpenter (“Physiology”), [163]
Casket, Gypsy, to send away disease, [15], [16]
Cassel, P., “Die Symbolik des Blutes,” [87]
Castellani, [229]
Castor Oil, Benediction of, [150]
Cat, Swinging a, [136]
Cato, incantations, [54]
Cedrenus, [238]
Centaurs, [126]
Chagrin, a gypsy demon, [91], [92], [93]
Chaldean magic, Shamanic, [62], [63]
Chapter I.: Origin of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Sorcery—Vindictive and Mischievous Magic, [1]–12
Chapter II.: Charms and Conjurations to cure disorders of grown people—Hungarian Gypsy Magic, [12]–41
Chapter III.: Gypsy Conjurations and Exorcisms—The cure of children—Hungarian gypsy spells—Curious old Italian secret—Magic virtues of garlic—A Florentine incantation learned from a witch—Lilith, the child-stealer and Queen of the Witches, [41]–65
Chapter IV.: South Slavonian and other Gypsy Witch-lore—The words for a witch—Vilas and the spirits of earth and air—Witches—Egg-shells and egg-lore—Egg Proverbs—Ova de Crucibus, [65]–79
Chapter V.: Charms to protect Animals, [79]–100
Chapter VI.: Of Pregnancy, and Charms and Folk-lore connected with it—Boars’ teeth and styptic charms, [101]–107
Chapter VII.: Recovery of stolen property—Love-charms—Shoes and love-potions, or philtres, [108]–121
Chapter VIII.: Roumanian and Transylvanian Sorceries and Superstitions, connected or identical with those of the Gypsies, [122]–141
Chapter IX.: Rendezvous of Witches, Sorcerers, and Vilas—Continuation of South Slavonian Gypsy-lore, [142]–151
Chapter X.: Haunts and Homes of Witches in South Slavic lands—Bogeys and Humbugs, [152]–161
Chapter XI.: Gypsy Witchcraft, the magical power innate in all men and women—How it may be developed—The principles of Fortune-telling, [162]–185
Chapter XII.: Fortune-telling continued—Romance based on chance or hope as regards the future—Folk-and Sorcery-lore—Authentic gypsy predictions, [186]–193
Chapter XIII.: Proverbs referring to Witches, Gypsies, and Fairies, [194]–208
Chapter XIV.: A Gypsy Magic Spell—Lellin Dudikabin, or the Great Secret—Children’s Rhymes and Incantations—Ten Little Indian Boys and Acorn Girls of Marcellus Burdigalensis, [209]–229
Chapter XV.: Gypsy Amulets, [230]–254
Chapter XVI.: Gypsies, Toads, and Toad-lore, [255]–260
Charles the Simple (straw), [32]
Charley Boy, a child’s song, [22]
Charms and Conjurations to cure disorders of grown people, [12]
Chen, the Sun, [50]
Chesme, the Turkish fountain-cat nymph, [132], [133]
Childbirth Sorceries, [47], [48], [49]
Children, Why gypsies steal, [147]
Child, To know if a woman is with, [101];
to recover stolen property, [110]
Child’s blood used in magic, [86], [87]
Child-stealing, [62]
Chinese bottles, [229]
Chiromancy among gypsies, [176]
Chov-hani, gypsy for witch, [67]
Christian scientist, metaphysical doctor, &c., [23]
Church influence, [157]
Cin-vat, [57]
Coals in magic, [51], [52], [54], [60]
Cœna demonum, or demons’ supper, [136]
Collecting in Folk-lore, [x], [xii]
Conceptions, Supernatural, developed with the mind, [4], [5]
Conception, To promote, [100], [101]
“Conditions for the Survival of Archaic Customs,” by G. L. Gomme, Arch. Rev., 1890, xv
“Congrès des Traditiones populaires” of 1889, [x]
Conscious will, [168]
Constantine, Bath of Blood, [238]
Convulsive weeping, [60]
Cordus (Elder), [30]
Cornelius Agrippa, [53];
and la haute Magie, [xvi]
Corpse-candle superstition, [xiii]
Counting-out Rhymes and Spells, Chapter XIV.
Cowries, used as amulets, [102]
Crab, Ashes of, in bewitching, [120]
Cramp (night), Spell against, [36]
Cromagnon, The Man of, [6]
Cross on a grave, [106]
Cross-road, Spell of the, [118], [119], [152]
Cross-roads, gypsy meeting-place, [152]
Crow, Eye of a (love-charm), [120]
Cuckoo, Song of, an omen, [18]
Cups and goblets, Divination by, [227]