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Cuckoo, Aino beliefs concerning the, 47

Curiosity, punishment of, Aino folk-tale, 19

Cycle of Aino folk-tales, 30-33


Dance, fairy, Sutherlandshire, 217

Dances, with cakes, Roscommon, 57

Danes' blood, Rutlandshire, 273

Death, cured by magic medicine, Sutherlandshire, 178

——— customs at, Ross-shire, 262-264

——— omens, Washington, 91; Sutherlandshire, 243; Ross-shire, 262

——— origin of, Mentra, 67

——— warning of, Sutherlandshire, 239, 243

——— work stopped after death of a townsman, Antrim, 56

Deceiver, the clever, Aino folk-tale, 43-45

Deer, enchanted, of Reay forest, 226

Defibulation, ceremony of, Somali, 124

Demon, stealing of human wife by, Aino, 20

Dempster (Miss), Folk-Lore of Sutherlandshire, 149-189, 215-252

Descent, rules of, in Ross-shire folk-lore, 263

Devil, legend connected with, 125-128, 164, 180

Devil's glen, county Wicklow, 274

——— jump, legend of, near "Washington, 87

——— Nightcap, a stone so called. Dorsetshire, 117

Diamond, triple, of Ben Stack, Sutherlandshire, 241

Diarmid, death of, Sutherlandshire folk-tale, 159-160

Disease, cause of, by dreaming, 50; cures for, 133

Dog, origin of, in Mentra legend, 67

Dogs, excretion of gold and silver by, Aino, 22

—— why they cannot speak, Aino, 8; their affection for the fox, Aino, 16; powers of sight, Aino, 37; Ross-shire, 263

Domestic folk-lore, Washington, 91-92; Ross-shire, 962-263

Door, opening of, at time of death, Sutherlandshire, 243

Door-posts, god of the, Aino, 40

Dorsetshire folk-lore, 115-119

Dove, heroine assumes form of, Hungarian folk-tale, 208

Dowry, marriage, Somali, 119; Ceylon, 140

Dragon fight, legend of, derived from clouds, 102

——— god, Aino, 13

——— legends, Sutherlandshire, 156, 232

Dreams, Aino, 39, 50; Sutherlandshire, 233-235

Drowning, death from rising tide, Sutherlandshire, 152; superstitions, 242


Earth, condition of, in the beginning of the world, Aino, 19; Mentra, 66

Earthquakes caused by wriggling of gigantic fish, Aino, 3, 194

Easter customs, county Clare, 54; Spain, 210

Eating, taboo against, in Hades (fairy land), Aino, 35, Wales, 192

Eclipse, origin of, Mentra, 68

Eggs, trundling of, county Down, 60

Eight, the figure, in conjuring, Wales, 126

Essex, singing game, 211

Eye, evil, Sutherlandshire, 245; Ross-shire, 264

Eyed, one, monsters, origin of in cloud forms, 110

Exogamy and blood feud, Somali, 123


Face of goddess not to be seen, Aino folk-tale, 19

Fairies, belief in, Roscommon, 56; Down, 60; Wales, 191

——— man carried off by, Perthshire, 271

——— mountain, Sutherlandshire, 173, 217

——— wizard's power over, Sutherlandshire, 153

Fairy children, Sutherlandshire, 182

—— people, in Feroe Islands, 126

—— stories, Sutherlandshire, 215-220

Family, special, superstitions, 59, 64, 221, 247

Famine, legend of, Aino, 193

Fatal localities to certain persons, 151

Female succession, Mentra, 72

Fenian's (St.) Well, Queen's county, 61

Feroe Islands, folk-lore of, 129-133

Festivals at wells, Sligo, 52

Fingal, mention of, in Sutherlandshire stories, 159, 162, 221, 231

Fire, ceremonies at birth, Hindu, 75, at death, Aino, 271