na, New Year in, 324

Chios, Christmas _rhamna_ in, 270

Christkind as gift-bringer, 205, 230, 277-8

Christmas, pagan and Christian elements in, 18-28, 161-86, 357-60;
names of, 20-5;
establishment of, 20-2; |393|
its connection with earlier festivals, 20-8;
becomes humanized, 25-7, 34-8;
in poetry, 31-86;
liturgical aspects of, 89-101;
in popular devotion, 104-18;
in drama, 121-54;
its human appeal, 155-7, 357-60;
attracts customs from other festivals, 173, 226, 277-8, 284;
decorations, 178, 272-6;
feasting, 178-80, 283-91;
presents, 276-9;
masking customs, 297-308;
log, _see_ Yule Log

Christmas Eve, 229-38;
superstitions about the supernatural, 233-7;
log customs, 251-8;
fish supper on, 286-7

Christmas-tree, 168, 178, 263-72;
its origin, 267-72

Christpuppe, 231

Chrysostom, 269

Church, Dean, 34

Circumcision, Feast of, 101, 302.
_See also_ New Year's Day

Clement, St., his Day, 211-2

Cleobury Mortimer, curfew at, 258

Clermont, shepherd play at, 141

Coffin, Charles, 64

Communion, sacrificial, 174-8

"Comte d'Alsinoys," 56, 58-9

Cornwall, Hallowe'en custom in, 196;
blackbird pie in, 293;
Childermas in, 315

Coventry plays, 128, 130-1, 138

Cradle-rocking, 108-11

Crashaw, 79-81

Crib, Christmas, 105-8, 113-8;
possible survivals in England, 118, 274

Crimmitschau, 112

Crivoscian customs, 231, 253-4, 276, 346-7

Croatia, St. Andrew's Eve in, 215;
Christmas log customs in, 251

_Cronia_, 166

Dalmatia, Yule log customs in, 252

Dancing, 47-8, 293-4, 298-300, 302

Daniel, Jean, 56, 58

Dannhauer, J. K., 265

Dasius, St., 167

Dead, feasts of the, 173, 180-1, 189-95, 235-6, 240, 253-4, 341

Decorations, evergreen, 168, 178, 350, 355

Denisot, Nicholas, 56, 58-9

Denmark, "star-singing" in, 151;
animal masks in, 202;
Martinmas goose in, 203;
St. Lucia's Eve in, 223;
St. Thomas's Day in, 223-4;
Christmas Eve superstitions in, 235-6;
Yule candles in, 259-60;
Christmas-tree in, 267;
pig's head eaten in, 286;
Yule-bishop in, 308

Derbyshire, "kissing-bunch" in, 274;
Plough Monday in, 352

Devil, and beast masks, 202;
and flax, 240

Devon, "Yeth hounds" in, 240;
"ashton faggot" in, 258;
wassailing fruit-trees in, 345

Dew, Christmas, 288-9

Dickens, Charles, 359

Dinan, Herod play at, 141

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