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Central Australia, 338; dead feared, W. Australia, 341 ; dead, feasts to, Achewa tribe, 62, Aztecs, 202, Bantus, 311, Car Nicobar, 19, Eskimos, 19, India, 202-3, New- Caledonia, 258-9 ; dead, offerings to, 135, Bantu, 311, China, 297 : dead not named, W. Australia, 338 ; dead speak in twitters. New Caledonia, 258 ; death caused by spirits, Achewa tribe, 62 ; death produced by pointing of bone, Queensland, 17; fire not lighted for 3 days after death, Malta, 83, or till funeral, Azores, 141 ; funeral processions, Malta, 83, W. Aus- tralia, 337 ; future life, 13-4, Achewa &c. tribes, 61-3, Angoni tribes, 310-1 , Basutos, 417, Black- foot Indians, 200-1, Bushmen, 20, Eskimos, 19, New Caledonia, 257, 259, Pawnee Indians, 200, Tahiti, 201 ; hauntings by dead, W. Aus- tralia, 353 ; Macedonia, 447 : meals eaten on floor after death, Malta, 83 : men stay in house till seventh day, Malta, 83 ; mourn- ing, Basutos, 205, 417, Malta, 82-3, W. Australia, 325, 336, 347, 358, 366 {plate) ; origin of death, New Caledonia, 257 ; others must not sit beside near relatives, Azores, 141 : skulls trepanned,
13 : southernwood in house at funeral, Abney, 180 ; stone piles keep dead underground, 16; thyme cast into grave, Bradwell, 180 ; thyme in house at funeral, Abney, 180 ; wives slain on husbands' graves, Bronze Age, 13, Thracians,
14 ; women stay in house 40 days, Malta, 83 ; worship of dead, Bantu, 61, 311
Death and the Herb Thyme, by S. O. Addy, 179-80
December, see Christmas ; awfl? Christ- mas Eve
Deer : Artemis and fawn as votive offering, Corcyra, 264 ; assigned to East region of space, Zuni, 430 ; astragali of bucks used in divina- tion, Basutos and Ba-Thonga, 122-3 ■ as votive offering to Artemis, 280
Deity, conceptions of: CentraK^frica, 311 ; South Africa, 416-7 ; New Caledonia, 258 ; votive offerings as bearing on, 262-4
Delagoa Bay, see Ba-Ronga
Delhi : Delhi, Past and Present, by H. C. Fanshawe, reviewed, 316-7 ; king, election of, 57
Delos : Apollo's statue at, 270 votive offerings at, 266, 269
Delphi : first temple of laurel boughs, 288 ; Poseidon associated with, 287-8; votive figures at, 264-5, 268, 271, 289
Demons and evil spirits : {see also Devil") ; amulets against, China, 296-7, W. Australia, 347 ; Baon, New Caledonia, 257 ; charms against, Malays, 406, W. Aus tralia, 347 ; Churel, India, 203 ; dead return as, W. Australia 365 ; Debil-debil, W. Australia, 354-6 ; Done, New Caledonia, 258; excluded by peach blossom. New Year, China, 296 ; exorcising. Car Nicobar, 198, W. Australia, 340- 342-3; festivals for, Car Nicobar, 19 ; satyrs, 316 ; Xtabay, Mexico, 203
Derbyshire : {see also Abney ; Brad- well : Dronfield ; Dufifield ; Kedles- ton ; Smalldale ; and Stubley) ; the " vessel-cup," 419
Desiderius, King, see King Desiderius
Devil : in eel. Highlands, 303 ; in folk-tale, Oxfordshire, 410-2; offer- ings to, Highlands, 382 ; rattling chains, Oxford, 73 ; re-enters sea, Nov. 2nd, Azores, 142; how to see, Azores, 142
Devon : {see also Ilfracombe) ; charm- ring for epilepsy &c., 294
Diadems, see Crown
Digging-sticks, W, Australia, 322,
325 Dilly bags, Queensland, 321-2 Dione, figure of, Dodona, 271 Dioscuri, The, votive offerings to,
263 Diseases : cannibalism as cure for, Marquesas islands, 18 ; caused by evil eye, W. Highlands, 96, point- ing of bone, Queensland, 17, or spirits, 13, Achewa tribe, 62 ; cures for, see Medical folklore ; exorcism for expelling. Car Nico- bar, 19 Ditch, ghost laid in, Wheatley, 69 Divination : {see also Omens) ; by anteater's nail, Basutos and Ba- Thonga, 122-3 : by astragali, Ba- Thonga, 115, 122-3: by birds,
