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rately, Baganda, 137 ; judg- ment of dead, 272, Gaels, 500 ; lustration, Muppans, 42-3, Tiyans, 290 ; menitlang, Borneo, 408 ; mourning customs,
Balkans, 225, Muppans, 42-4, Thonga, 519 ; offerings, Assam, 464, 466, Muppans, 35, 43-4 ; palaeolithic, 29 ; property buried with dead, Congo, 216 ; purificatory customs, Thonga, 519 ; sacrifice on graves, Congo, 216-7 ; sin-eater, Hereford- shire, 385 ; south, quarter of dead, Malabar, 33, 42 ; taboos, see Taboos ; tombstone buried in new graves, Clare, 211 ; un- cleanness, Congo, 215 ; un- lucky to cross empty grave, Albania, 228 ; Zulus, 271
Deccan, see Deshasth Brahmans
December : (see also Christmas Day ; Christmas Eve ; Christ- mastide ; New Year's Eve) ; 2ist-5tli, mumping, Glos., 455 ; 28tl"i, ringing, Glos., 457
Deer : amulet from, 232 ; in folk- song, Aargau, 129 ; stag's horns, in folk-medicine, 232, in god- hut, Muppans, 34
Deity, conceptions of : (see also Gods) ; All Father beliefs, 107- II, 142-4, 162-71, 376-7, 390-1, 401-2, 408 ; origins of, 148-71 ; primitive, discussed, 107-11,
142-3
Delagoa Bay, see Thonga
Demeter type of folk-tale, 488-9
Demons and evil spirits : (see also Devil) ; 241 ; in folk-tales, Armenians, 96-7, 100 ; magic against, Japan, 188 ; offerings to, Assam, 465-6
Denmark : (see also Iceland) ; folklore collection, 113; thunder- stones, 122-3
Derbyshire, see Duffield ; Findern ; Kedleston
Dervishes : in Turkey, 508-9
Deshasth Brahmans, 299
Deiitscheii Volkssagen, Die, by F. Ranke, reviewed, 507-8
Devangas : bury bull, 284
Devil : as bear, Savoy, 127 ; in folk-song, Aargau, 129 ; in folk- tale, Glos., 339 ; fossils named from, 45-6, 62
Devon: (s^e a/so Bampton; Devon- port; Exeter; Ilfracombe; Tiver- ton) ; Yule faggot, 350
Devonport : turning loaf upside down unlucky, 354
Dew : in charm, Japan, 193 ; May dew, Glos., 451
Dhangars : bull sacred, 284
Diarmuid and Grainne, 91-2
Dieri : folk-tales, 320, 324
Dionysus, 21, 277, 395, 489
Diseases : (see also under names) ', amulets against, Japan, 187, 189 ; foretelling result of, Japan, 190 ; sent by spirits, Congo, 512-3
Dispater, Dark Divinity, 247-8
Divination : 241-2, 272 ; by bones, Balkans, 225 ; by bon- fire, Oct. 31, Wales, 419 ; by dreams, 58 ; Herefordshire, 383; of death, Wales, 419 ; of result of illness, 494 ; of sex of un- born, Japan, 193
Divine right, Albania, 228-9
Diwali festival, India, 425
Dizziness, cure for, 496
Dog : black, in purificatory rite, Assam, 468, spectral, Hereford- shire, 385 ; charm against, Japan, 192, 194, S. Africa, 229 ; in Feast custom, Glos., 454 ; in folk-tale, Gaels, 387-8 ; ghost, Glos., 340 ; in magic, Japan, 186, 188, 190, 193, 196; sacred. Bhils, 298 ; taunt, Thames, 454 ; as totem, India, 498
Dolmens : Clare, 91-3 ; indecency attached to, 92 ; S. India, 140 ; Wilts., 340 Donegal Cures and Charms, by
Miss L. M'Clintock, 473-8 Donkey : in charm, Donegal, 478 Dooinnev-Oie, the Night-Man : a Manx" Folk-Tale, by Miss S. Morrison, 342-5 Doomsday : Celts, 248 Doonass : castles, 206 Door : kissed at marriage, Greeks,
85-6 Doorstep, see Threshold Doorway : unlucky to stand in,
Suk, 401 Dorset : (see also Corfe Castle ; Isle of Purbeck ; Lyme Regis ; Owre ; Woodcuts) ; clipping yew-tree, 203
