Index.
459
Scotland, and China,283; dead, pro- cession of, Hebrides, 31, 59 ; dead return to graves at dawn, Hebrides, 59 ; dead speak wiih nasal twang, India, 283 ; dead, stars named from, Kurnai tribes, 20 ; drink pro- vided for dead, Hebrides, 60 ; funeral rites, Baloches, 257, Sibops, 437 ; future life, Sibops, 436-7, Yorke's Penin. (S. Aus.), 18; gliosis, see Ghosts ; Mari Mata, goddess of death, N. India, 188 ; mourning, Hebrides, 61 ; second wife suffers "dead man's nip," Hebrides, 59; skulls of dead asked for advice, Torres Straits, 103 ; soul of dying released by wrapping in sheepskin, Kennet Valley, 419 ; " spirit stone " used, Dharwar, 236 ; theft punished after death, Hebrides, 59 ; wife of deceased carried from burial place, Tsinyai, 240 ; windows opened to free spirit, St. Briavel's, 173
December, see Christmas ; Christmas Eve ; New Year's Eve ; and St. Thomas' Day
Deer : charmed as enemy of the rice, Malay Penin., 160; "dried veni- son eaters," Siouan group name, 389 ; not eaten, Kalamantans, 356; in group name, Itaziptco tribe, 388 ; roe-deer song, Malay Penin., 160- 1 ; as "sending," Java, 157; saying of. Outer Hebrides, 34
Deity, conceptions of : Australian tribes, 18-20 ; absent. Phraser's island aborigines, 19, Kabi tribe, 19, Kurnai tribes, 19, Wodi-wodi tribe, 19
Deluge legends, 20, 42
Demoniacal possession, see Possession
Demons and evil spirits : {see also Devil ; a7id Jinns) ; bhuts, Bengal, 281-3: birth-demons, Malay, 135-6; charms against, Ceylon, 79, Heb- rides, 30, Malays, 152, Pongul, 77 ; exorcising, Malays, 1 49-151 ; Mooniandi, Ceylon, 277-8 ; ' sent ' in form of insects &c., Malays, 147-51 ; white line excludes from room, St. Briavel's 172
Denceaym,Antichrist brought up in, 1 29
Denmark : Beowulf legend belongs to, 223
Dera Ghazi Khan : cutting hair great disgrace, Baloches, 270; folk songs ^nd tales, 252-3
Derajat : Balochi folklore, 252-74
Derbyshire, see Castleton
Dessil, see Sunwise
Devil : Australian beliefs, 20 ; of Bahkunjy tribe, 19 ; conjura- tion of, Hebrides, 49 ; Devil's Chapel, St. Briavel's, 171 ; Devil's Kitchen, St. Briavel's, 171; Eraser island aborigmes, 19 ; Offa's Dyke named after, St. Briavel's, 17 1 : removed side fins of trout, Hebrides, 36-7 ; teaches nigromancy at Toledo, 120
Devil dancing, see Dances
Devil's Quoits (Oxon) : legends of,
293-5 Devonshire : village sobriquets, 385-
6, 389
Dharwar : marriage customs of Deshashlh Brahmans, 236
Diamantina river, see Kuyuna
Dickeri, see Cane-grass
Dieri, see Dieyerie
Dieyeri tribe : creation beliefs, 18, 403 ; legends, 405-7, 414-7 ; the Moora-Moora, 18, 403 ; murdu or totem, 352 ; myth of origin of totemism, 355, 379 ; not a pristine group, 381 ; rain-making, 403
Dishwater : brownies warned when thrown out, Faroe islands, 184
Diseases : communicated by leaping over person, India, 238 ; cures for, see Medical folklore
Divination ; {see also Omens ; and Ordeals) ; among Baloches, 264 ; at Hallowe'en, Hebrides, 53-5 ; by Bible and key. Kennet Valley, 422 ; by dreams, Hebrides, 51-3; by lemon iXic, Penang, 143-4, 154-5 '■> by movements of inanimate ob- jects, Malays, 137, 154-7 ; by seeds on cornstalk, Hebrides, 53 ; by sieve, Malays, 145, 155 ; by sowing hempseed, Kennet Valley, 422 ; by swinging ring &c., Ma- lays, 144-5 > children's games re- lated to, 24 ; friths or horoscopes, Hebrides, 47-50 ; from pig's liver, Torres Straits, 103 ; from shoulder- blade of sheep, Afghans and He- brides, 50-1, Baloches, 264 ; by stones, Torres Straits, 103 ; of death, Hebrides, 53-4, Kennet Valley, 422 ; of marriage, He- brides, 55-4, Kennet Valley, 422, Torres Straits, 103 ; of prospective
