Index 



Ireland of Finnic "Kukku- 

 lind," cuckoo bird, 94 ; scan- 

 dalous birth of Cuchullaind, 

 95 ; cuckoo episodes and 

 dates in his life, 96 ; looseness 

 of his morals, 97; swells up 

 in anger like a bird, 97 ; visits 

 military school of Scatach, 98 ; 

 his son by Scatach's daughter 

 fights with and is slain by him, 

 99 ; adventure with " Blossom," 

 99 ; uses " sea magic," 100 ; 

 expert with the sling, loi ; 

 his odd spear, the gaebolg, 

 loi ; understands speech of 

 birds and is great bird-catcher, 

 102 ; much to do with swans, 

 strikes two which turn to fairy 

 women, 202 ; rescues princess 

 from Fomori, and she follows 

 as swan, 202. 

 Cuckoo, xii, 6; called gowk and 

 gawk in England, Gauch in 

 German, 54, 79 ; gives word 

 gaiiche to French, 54, 79 ; dif- 

 ferent in size, voice, and habits 

 from American cuckoos, 55; 

 ventriloquist, 55; saddled 

 with crimes by old peoples, 

 56 ; mother bird lays in other 

 birds' nests, but does not en- 

 tirely desert her young, 56 ; 

 ancients admired its supposed 

 wickedness, 57 ; habits of 

 cuckoo and fosterage of chil- 

 dren in Ireland, 57 ; young ig- 

 norant of its parents and breth- 

 ren, possibilities of incest, 58 ; 

 in Indian Rigveda cuckoo 

 prophetic and omniscient, 60; 



in Germany foretells fortune 

 for the year, 60; Chaucer's 

 denunciation, 61 ; converses 

 with Vaino, 64 ; Lemmin- 

 kainen's bird, 64 ; Scandina- 

 vian rhyme to foretell future 

 by cuckoo's cry, 65 ; cuckoo- 

 ale in England, 65 ; yokes of 

 horses carry cuckoo in Fin- 

 land, 66; colors of cuckoo, 

 67 ; synonym for awkwardness, 

 53 ; 68 ; form of cuckoo as- 

 sumed by Zeus to make Hera, 

 his sister, his wife, 68; bird 

 effigies in Mashonaland per- 

 haps cuckoos, 68 ; cuckoo's 

 ignorance of parents and fam- 

 ily the germ of stories of Sieg- 

 fried, KuUervo, Kalevipoeg. 

 75 ; Cuchullaind, Gwalchmei, 

 76 ; Conchobar, Janus and 

 Saturn, 77 ; Faunus, Italian 

 form of Pan, 78 ; hibernation 

 of cuckoos in trees, 80 ; rea- 

 sons for laying eggs in foreign 

 nests, 82 ; called Welsh ambas- 

 sador, 83; " cuckoo-penners 

 of Somerset," 84; cuckoo 

 trait in King Arthur who has 

 children by his sister, 85 ; 

 Gwalchmei, " hawk of May," 

 means the cuckoo, 86 ; useful- 

 ness of cuckoo to man, 89 ; 

 cuckoo demigods of Ireland 

 and Finland, 90. 



Curoi, King of Kerry, slain by 

 Cuchullaind, 99. 



Cwm Cawlwyd, owl of, 219. 



Cygnet, a Norman word, 184. 



Cygnus musicus, Finnish ku- 



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