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Index.
Cuckoo : enchanted, Hebrides, 35 ;
in sayings, Hebrides, 40 ; as ill
omen, Hebrides, 52 ; as village
sobriquet, 3S5 Cuckoo-flower : " frumity-flower," 92 Culham : white dog in harvest &c.
sayings, 179-80 Cumberland : chastity test, 236-7 Cursing, see Imprecations Cyvis rosce, gall formed by, averts
toothache, St. Briavel's, 173
Dagger, used in "sending," Malays, 146, 157
Dahomey : special name for boy born after twins, 63
Dakota tribes : {see also Asiniboin tribe ; Hunpatina tribe : Itaziptco tribe ; Minikooju tribe ; Mysterious Lake tribe ; Sisseton tribe ; Sit- canxu tribe : Wahpeton tribe ; and Yankton tribe) ; group names, 390
Dambiro, Balochi musical instrument,
253
Dames, M. Longworth : Balochi Folklore, 225-6, 252-74
Dances : among Baloches, 272 ; dancing swords or wards of virgins, Benin, 440; devil, Malay, 135, 153; marriage, Bhlls, 243, Kattais, 242-3, Oraons, 242, Varlis, 243 ; monkey, Malay, 136 ; sword, Eg- ton Bridge, 302
Dancing objects inspired by spirits, Malays, 137-43. 164-5
Daramulun, lame god, Australia, 88-9
Dawn, see Sunrise
Days and Seasons : All Saints' Day, 41 ; All Souls' Day, 41 ; Annuncia- tion, Feast of, 40 ; April, 77, 250 ; Ash Wednesday, 423 : Autumn, 38, 250-1 ; Beltane, 40-1 ; Bhadon, month of, 280 ; Candlemas, 39 ; Christmas, 38, 92, 94-5, 107, 174, 296-7, 423 ; Christmas Eve, 45, 174 ; December, 38, 45, 92, 94-6, 107, 173-4, 292, 296-7, 423; Easter Monday, 247-9 • Easter Sunday, 40, 248, 423 ; Easter Tuesday, 247-9 ! Fathering Sunday, 174 ; February, 39-40: Friday, 42, 148, 173, 175, 423; Good Friday, 173, 175, 423; Hallf)we'en, 53-5 ; Hocktide Day, 250; January, 40, 174, 1S5, 292; Jeth, month of, 27S ; July, 77 ; June, 40, 77-9, 422 ; Kfitik, month of, 280 ; Magh, month of, 278 ;
March, 38-40; May, 38, 40-1, 77-9, 96; May Day, 38, 40-I ; Alichaelmas, 44-5, 423 ; Mid- summer Eve, 422 ; Midwinter, 40 ; Monday, 41-2, 47, 148, 247-9 ! Mothering Sunday, 107, 174 ; New Year's Day, 40, 174, 247 ; New Year's Eve, 45-6,174, 292 ; Novem- ber, 38, 41 ; October, 53-5 ; Old Twelfth Night, 185 ; Palm Sunday, 32, 40, 174-5 ; St. Andrew's Day, 38 ; St. Brigid's Day, 39 ; St. Patrick's Day, 38-9 ; St. Peter's Day, 40 ; St. Thomas' Day, 173-4 ! Saturday, 42; September, 44-5, 423 ; Shrove Tuesday, 1 74 ; Spring, 245, 251 ; Sunday, 32, 40, 42, 107, 174-5, lS9> 248, 423 ; Thursday, 41 ; Tuesday, 42, 65, 144, 174, 18S-9, 247-9 j Twenty-first of month, 429 ; Wednesday, 49, 423 ; Whit Sunday, 175 ; religious beliefs connected with calendar, 441 Dead, beliefs about, see Death and
funeral customs and beliefs Dead, land of, see Hades Dean Forest, see St. Briavel's Death and funeral customs and beliefs : {see also Graves ; and Omens) ; beehives lifted when corpse removed, St. Briavel's, 173 ; burial customs, Hebrides, 60-1, Japan, 276-7, St. Briavel's, 173 ; burial-places haunted by invisible beings, Birria &c. tribes, 19 ; cairns prevent wicked spirits from wandering, 218 : corpse bleeds when touched by murderer, Kennet Yalley, 422 ; corpse sat up with, St. Briavel's, 173 ; corpses should be touched, Hebrides, 60 ; corpses surrounded by dust &c. to detect slayer, N. Queensland, 365, or animal tracks, Scotland, 365 ; dead alone have clothes stitched upon body, Hebrides, 29-30 ; dead avenge insults, Sahara Desert, 287-8 ; dead become bhuts, if . funeral rites not performed, Bengal, 281-3; dead become birds, Milya- uppa tribe, 18 ; dead, coal protects from, Hebrides, 31 ; dead feared, Mungerra tribe, 19 ; dead inhabit household snakes, Zulus, 353 : dead not mentioned, Koombokkaburra tribe, 19; dead newly arrived serve predecessors, Bengal, 282, Ireland,
