Index.
523
Dirr : offerings to dead, 199-200
Dis, Celtic parallel to, 55
Diseases ; {see also under names of
diseases) ; amulets against, Spain,
467 {plate) ; boats for, 264 ; can
be transferred, Bantu, 250 Diseases : caused by snake, Bantu,
249, spirits, Philippines, 122 Disir, see Fylgja Distaff, shape-shifting into, Iceland,
422 Divination : {see also Omens ; and
Oracles) ; by birds. Loch Lomond,
50; by dreams, Scandinavia, 415-6;
by nuts. Hallow Eve, Ireland,
58 ; by yew rods, Ireland, 67 ;
at Yuletide, Scandinavia, 414-5 Dodona, oak of, 67, 327 Does the Folk-Lore Society exist for
the Study of Early Institutions?, by
Miss C. S. Barne, 233-5 Dog : as local nickname, 22 ; in
temple of Nodons, Lydney Park,
40 ; white, sacrificed, Iroquois, 265 Dolls : The Folklore of Dolls, by E.
Lovett, 129; in "wassail box,"
Yorkshire, 349-50 Dolphin : bones as amulets, Spain,
467 {plate) Domald, King, see King Doniald Domhnall back-footed, 13 1-2, 138 Domnall, son of King Murchad, 61, 68 Donegal, see Inishowen Donkey : amulet for, Spain, 456 ;
ears cropped, Moqui Indians, 72-3 ;
figure as votive offering, Spain,
471 ; valued, 285 Doolas woods : fairy tree, 442-4, 451 Dove : associated with oak, 327, and
St Columcille, 327 ; on British
sceptre, 315 ; golden, on cup
handles, Greece, 168 ; white, in
ballad, Bretagne, 314 Dragon : fiery, guards buried treasure,
Iceland, 412-3 ; in Mabinogion, 49 Drama, Folk, see Folk-drama Dreams : divination by, Scandinavia,
415-6 ; in Icelandic sagas, 397-8 ;
of King Cathair, 161 Drolls: Cairo, 192-6 Drontheim : Thorgerd to Iceland
from, 407 Druids : Ireland, 33-4, 69-70 ; Nuada,
33-4 ; sacrificed white bulls, 34 ;
tree divinity and stone pillar
associated, 61 ; white associated
with, 33-4
Druim Suithe, the poet, 66 Druminshin or Drumnahunshin, mean- ing of, 62 Drums, musical : Tibet, 3 Duach Dubh, King, see King Duach
Dubh Dubhros : the fairy quicken-tree,
438-9, 443-5, 451 Dublin county, see Howth Duck : earth-dwarfs with feet of,
Germany, 134 ; figured on wedding
cakes. Great Russia, 282 Duiker : skin worn as apron by
Baperi, Transvaal, 484 Dumbartonshire, see Loch Lomond Dumnonii : Nudoskingof, 37, 42, 143 Dungarvan : Finn's leap. May Day,
4.34 Durban : dances, 477 ; witch-doctor's
necklace, 483 {plate) Durham, Miss M. E., "The Shade
of the Balkans," 113 Durrow : apple-tree, 328 ; named
from oak-groves, 327 Dusserah festival, Mhars, 269, 274 Dutch folklore, see Holland Dyaks : religious rites, 256 Dyved, kings of realm of, 143
Eagle : in armorial bearings, Scot- land, 322 ; auguries from, May Eve, Loch Lomond, 50 ; in folk- tale, British Columbia, 133 ; on sceptre as symbol, 165, 315 ; shape- shifting into, Wales, 312-3
Eaglehawk : phratry, Australia, 24, no, 242, 246
Earth dwarfs, in German saga, 134-5, 140
Earth gods : fly before new religion, Iceland, 399; Jupiter, 31 ; Nuada, 31-2 ; Zeus, 31
Easter : {see also Good Friday) ; candle blessed by Pope, 470 ; eggs, Huculs, 7 ; expulsion ceremony, Barcelona, 263
East, hundred of: Painter's Oak, 323-4
East Indies, see Borneo ; Celebes ; and Nias
Eastwell : oaks in sympathy with Finches, 323
Eating : of horseflesh test of pagan- ism, Iceland, 419-20
Eber, Milesian leader, 153
Eberswald : birds caught, carried, and freed. Ascension Day, 271
