Index.
409
Demetra, in modern Greek folklore,
276 Demetrios, the rambling image made
^y' 336
Demons, see Devil, Evil Spirits,
Ghosts a7id Vampires Demon-women, 109 Denmark, folklore of, Holger the Dane, 197, ghost-lights in, 207, Will o' the Wisp in, 225, 228, Danish tales compared and classi- fied, 299, 302. Three Witch Waves, superstition in, 339 Dennett, (R. E.), Death and Burial
of the Fiote, 132 Derbyshire folklore, Souling at
Christmas, 70 Devil, the, names for devils in Italy, 2, 3, why not directly mentioned, 71, at Barn Hall, 177, 279, and ghostly lights. 218, 254, and the Smith, 230, 233, imprisoned by various means, 347, 'his preference for women, 2, propitiation of, at Chinese funerals, 201 Devil-dancing in Ceylon, Italian
analogy, 8 Devil-worship in India, 200 Devonshire folklore, the Black Hunts- man of Dartmoor, 196 Devavrata Hymn, the, 328 Diana, {see also Artemis and Athena), her influence symbolically ex- tended, 343, her priest and tree at Aricia, 11, and Actieon, 86 Digenes Akritas, Greek ballads con- cerning, 274, 275 Dindumene Mother, idol of, shown
annually, 354 Dinnshenchas, the, and the Tuatha
de Danann, 367 Dione, 349
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, quoted on inauguration of wooden idols, 326 Dionysus, his worship in relation to fairy creeds, 46, 48, 367, his shape- shifting, 50, development of myth, 51, his temple at Sikyon, 354, his ritual, 367 Dionysus-Zagreus myth and Orphic
ritual, 367 Disease personified in India, 2CX) Divination, {see Neapolitan witch- craft), in Russia, 85, of cause of death, in West Africa, 133 Divining rod, 360
Dog-fat as cure for stiff joints, 387 Dogs, variant of Gelert legend. 116, in relation to ghost lights, 214, 222, 223, 224, 229, in combat with the Devil, 280, fairy, 382, phantom, 196, 219 Dog-pie, Painswick, 193, 202, 390 Doherty, Thomas, Some Notes on the Physique, Customs and Supersti- tions of the Peasantry of Innishowen, Co. Donegal, 12 Domestic goblins, see Hobthirst, or
Hobthrust Donegal, folklore of, 12, 387 Dorsetshire, folk-medicine, quinsy,
387
Dosten and Shiren, see Balochi Tales
Doubs, department, folklore of nick- names, etc., 364
Down, County, medicinal folklore of,
387, 389 Dozzils, by W. Crooke, 75 Drac, Dragon, Dreag, Dhrakos, Dreug, Drook or Druig, 235, associated with fire and water, 236, 237, 238, with wealth 237, and meteors, 237, 238, with hail etc., 238, with the rainbow, 238, distinct from corpse-candles, 240, 245, associated with the death of rich or powerful men, 240, 241, 247, and not with the death of women, 241, modern instances of, 242, 245, and characteristics 247,
Dravidian race, in N. W. India, 268, modern form of making a god, 331, tribal jar ritual, 352, jar god of, 353
Dress, and decorations of morris- dancers, etc., 308, 309, 310, 314, 317, and diet of Donegal Peasantry, 13, of ancient Scythians, 285
Drevlyan marriage customs, 84
Drink-offering, Babylonian, 357
Drona-Kalasa, the trough in which Soma was made, 352
Drowning, portents of, 212, 213, 214, 216, 219, 382, 383, 385
Druidic mist, a version of 'hindrance' theme, 297, stones, (the ' Hurlers') in Cornwall, 73
Druids, and meteors, 235, in Hebri- dean folklore, 253 ; in Irish folk- lore, 298, and re-birth, 366
Dubh, {see Crom Dubh) a fairy dog, 382
