aching of, 1103

Congo, death of souls held in, 48

Conscience, religious development of, 1170

Consecration by sacrifice, 1033

Constitution, savage social, composite character of, 620

Control, supernatural, common to all religions, 1149

Corpse, savage attitude toward, 590

Corruption, monachistic, 1127

Cosmogonies, civilized, 829 ff.;
savage, 255, 829

Cosmogony, Babylonian, 316;
Hebrew, 830 n. 5

Courtesans, temple-, in West Africa and India, 1066

Couvade, the, 589;
origin of, 185

Coyote, the, malicious, 634;
place of soul of, 31 n. 4

Creation, Iranian, out of nothing, 830 n. 3;
myths of, 828-833

Creatianism, 37

Creators, American, 678;
mutually antagonistic, 831

Creeds, value of elasticity in, 1136

Crests, relation of, to totem, 502

Criminals, detection of, by divination, 918

Cult, synagogal, national character of, 1108

Cults, alien, adoption of, 1148 n. 1;
collocation of, 279;
individuality of, how obscured, 1153;
orgiastic, derived from Asia Minor, 1101;
popular, polytheistic, 986

Culture, as basis of classification of religions, 1150

Culture-heroes, 637 ff.

Curse, conditional, 926

Curses and blessings, relation of, to worship, 1090

Customs, mythical origin of, 844 f.

Cyprus, supposed bisexual deity in, 411

Dahomi, cult of indwelling spirit in, 43 n. 2;
ghost as family protector in, 533;
gods of, 660

_Daimonia_, Greek, as demons, 890

Dance, Green Corn, Cherokee, 490;
Snake, economic, 461 n. 1

Dances, cultic role of, 106 ff.;
symbolic, 1032

Danger, magical, origin of, 586

Daniel, book of, resurrection in, 90

Daramulun, origin of, 644

Dead, the, as advocates, 94;
as underground deities, 372;
Babylonian prayer to, 371;
Brahmanic ceremonies for, 96;
charms for, 95 n. 5;
cult of, 350 ff.;
dependent on the living, 361;
magical coercion of, 1021

Death, infection of air by, 591;
origin of, 834;
savage view of, 38

Deconsecration by sacrifice, 1033

Dedication, Jewish feast of, 1089

Deities, female, minor Roman, 803;
immoralities of, 1013;
nature of, defined by science, 1157;
need of caution in approaching, 196;
Roman, primitive, 797

Delphi, sacred fire at, 321

Demeter, origin of, 784

Demigods, dedivinization of, 358

Demiurge, Gnostic, 13

Demons, dwelling in plants, 266;
exorcism of, 139