Index.
549
Dodona : oracle, 142-3
Dog : birth genna, Assam, 308 ; Bran, 184, 231 ; in charm, Essex, 223, Ireland, 438 ; fetish cere- mony if killed, Congo, 462 ; flesh tabued, Assam, 305, 309 ; in folk- tales, Africa, 200-1, 21 1-2, 357-8, 489-93, 501-3 ; guides soul, Garos, 262 ; hounds of Under- world, Wales, 1 17-8, 120-1 ; mad, amulet against, Minehead, 7 ; omen from, Sicily, 174 ; sacri- ficed, Assam, 309 ; spectre, Clare, 185, 482-3 ; white, in proverb, Oxon, 18-9 ; wild, beliefs about, Malays, 162-3
Dogbite : cures for, India, 86, 315, 320-1
Doliche : Jupiter Dolichenus, 63 (plate)
Dolmens : dangerous to blast, Ire- land, 194-5 ; homes of fairies, Ireland, 196
Donkey : ass-headed figures, Crete, 132 ; in folk-tales, Africa, 200, 358, 496-7, 500-1 ; omen from, Sicily, 174
Doogh castle : fairies, 196-7
Doolough Lake : legends, 183,
477-9
Dooneeva : fairy revenge, 195
Doonmore : ghostly sounds, 344-5
Door : of bride's home shut during wedding, Yorks, 226
Doora : ' Water,' 340
Dorians : in Crete, 135
Dorowa-tree : fruit in folk-tale, Hausas, 490-2
Dorset : folk-music, 35-6
Dough : in marriage custom, Pale- stine, 293
Dove : in folk-tales, Africa, 208-9, 259 ; in laying ghost, Bucks, 222
Down, see Bangor
Dragon : in folk-tales, Ireland, 477-8, Italy, 349-50 ; on horse tassel, Tibet, 3 ; in Wales, 118
Dragon of La Trinity, The : an Italian Folk-Tale, by M. L. Cameron, 349-50
Dragonfly : dangerous, Essex, 223
Dreams : (see also Incubation) ; divination by, Congo, 452 ; evil, rite to counteract, Assam, 262-3 > from seeing corpse, Lincolnshire, 161 ; omens from, Assam, 312
Drehidnavaddaroe : meaning, 185 Drinking : as ford rite, 159 Drinking-vessels : fairy, Scotland,
156 ; fetish, Congo, 2 ; omens
from, Scotland, 89-90 Dromcliff : ghosts, 482 ; hidden
bells, 185 Dropsy : fetish ceremony for,
Congo, 460 ; tabu removed after,
Congo, 468-9 Drowning : birth with caul pre- vents, Argyll, 90 Druids : in folk-tales, Clare, 184 Drum-beating : in fetish ceremony,
Congo, 455-6 ; origin of, Africa,
259
Dualas : folk-tales, 215, 257
Duanaire Finn, by E. MacNeill, reviewed, 396-401
Dubh Lacha, 231
Duffield : annual hunt, 31
Dugong : amulet to attract. New Guinea, 2
Duiker : in folk-tales, Hausas, 210, 495-6
Dunaheirka : spectre, 343
Dunbeg Bay : folk-tale, 183
Dundahlin : meaning, 183
Dung : in folk-medicine, India, 316, 318; in protective rites against crocodiles, Zulus, 160, and widows, Bechuana, 160
Dunlicka Castle : haunted, 344
Durga : in mantras, Sirmflr, 504-5
Dust-storm: charm to 'bind,' India, 330-1
Dysert : legends, 188-9 \ place- names, 184-5
Eagle : eagle-headed figure, Crete,
132 Eaglehawk : Bunjil related to, 521 Ear-piercing : food tabus at,
Assam, 310 ; gennas at, Assam,
311
Earrings : save souls from monster, Garos, 262
Earth : Zeus as god of, 133
Earthworm : in folk-tale, Africa, 260
East : in divination, Manipur, 81
Easter Day : Shaking Day, Castle- ton, 38
Eastertide, see Easter Day ; Good Friday
East Indies, see New Guinea ; Nias island ; Sumatra
