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Index.
Dog mangled by spirits, Ireland,
363
Dog-natured people, 214
Dog, not the friend of man in Indian
folklore, 415 Dogs not to be called by name at
night, Hebrides, 265 Doll in May garlands, 444 Domestic customs, Indian folklore,
439 . .
Domestication of animals in evolution
of society, 374, et seq. Donkey's hairs on bread and butter
as cure for whooping cough,
Dorset, 489 Door opening, blessing on, 261
locked during marriage cere- mony, Neston, 350
signed with cross Cos, 178,
Cyprus, 365, Hebrides, 260 ;
Dorsetshire, Christmas Mummers in, 186
Folklore collected in 1897,
by H. Colley March, 478
game of King-sealing, 336
result of excavations in, 87, et
sqq.
Dove, white as departing soul-form,
France, 333 Dragons in Irish folklore and parallels,
218; in Japanese folklore, 312, 317;
unknown to Warwickshire mum- mers, 188 Dreaming of the dead, meaning of,
116 ; prevented by touching face of
corpse, 254, 477 Dreams, old German auguries from,
116; ghosts seen in, India, 395;
in Indian folklore, 433-4 Dresses, magic, 496, 498, 502 Drink of holy water for learning to
read, 171 ; of lustration water, by
patient, 167 ; shared in unbinding
spell for married persons, 159 Driver, headless, 119 Droit du seigneur, in Arabia, 229 ; in
Egypt, ib. Drowned body to discover, 114, 115 Drowning, Ilebridean euphemism for,
265 Druid ceremonial use of white cattle,
353 Dry ask, powers and uses of^ 252 Dub-grass, made evergreen, India,
398, 400 Dublin county, dread of the newt in,
25'
Dun Bull of Cuailgne, 218
Duncan, Leland L., Irish Folklore,
1 18-9 Dwarf deity, Japan, 5^^ Sukuna-bikona white men said to fall from the
sky in rain, Baronga folklore, 227 Dwarves, Scandinavian folklore, 459 Dying man as messenger to the gods,
Australia, 28 Dzimwe, the, African folklore, 284
Eagle, the fore-knowing, 213-4 ; friendly, 497
Ear-boring ceremonies, Indian folk- lore, 439
Ear-rings as caste indications, ib., for children, when made, 154 ; in crescent shape, 457
Easter Day, burning of straw effigy of Judas, in Cos, 178; cakes laid on graves, Calymnos, 180-1 ; lovers burning threads on, 180 ; seeing faces of those doomed to die, in holy well, 480
Eve, animal sacrifices on, Cos,
177-8
Eastern origin of Italian tales, 103
Eating of totems, rules for, Australia,
494
of underworld food, fatal results
of, Japanese myths, 300, Greek parallel, 301
Echo, (tree-spirit), Japan, 317
Eddie Poems, British source, date of and transmission, 450-1
Eerm transformed into an owl, Aus- tralia, 55
Efts, hybernating, 364
Egg laid on Thursday by black fowl used in love philtre, 169
Emu, Australian taboo of, 1 1
hero and others, Indian folklore,
426
yolk of used in love philtre,
170
Eggs in May garlands, 444
Egypt, flints found in, 87, folklore of, (see St. Clair), ancient religion of, astronomical character of, 231 ; astronomical myths of, 109 ; castes in, 229 ; distillation of water in, 230 ; droit du seigneur in, 229 ; funeral sacrifices in, ib. ; Malik king of, and parallel, 230 ; mono- theism in, 231 ; parasite and traveller tale and parallel, 118; reason for Shepherd invasion of, 231
