Index.
513
alive of child, Denmark, 360, do. in dyke, of would-be destroyer, Groningen, 361 ; Burial on Friday not right, Hebrides, 268 ; human sacrifices, Egypt, 229, Japan, 322 ; Dead men's bones as dice, India, 418, Sati, ib.^ 412 ; Funeral proces- sion seen after sunset, Ireland, 363, Lights on graves, do., 362 ; Build- ing set apart for corpse, Japan, 300, Washing of mourners after interment, ib., 302, Wreaths hung in mortuaries, ib., 321 ; Nails in skulls, Lincolnshire, 457 ; Burial customs, London, 254, 477 ; do., Northumberland, 254
forecasts. Omens or Warnings,
Black lamb if the first seen, 121, clock striking 12, during creed, 480; Dead coach, 1 19, 122 : fowls flying about, 264 ; pigeon entering house, 122, 123, 24S. 333 ; rain- bow 364 ; seeing faces in well on Easter morning, 480 : spirits going to and from church, 481 ; tap on window, 122, 123
savage difficulty in believing in,
338
temporary, Indian folklore,
396
Death-warnings, M. Peacock, 248
Deaths, successive, Hebrides, 272
Deddjal (AntichristX 230
Deer in Indian folktales, 415, 416, 434 : Hira the deer, 416 ; un- grateful, 416 ; with twisted horns, 439
Deification of the Mikados, recent origin of, 323
Deirdre, 220
Deity, Indian peasant ideas of, 440
Deluge, {see also Flood), pyramids as means of escape from, 230
Demeter worship, supposed modern survival of in Sicily, 252
Demon bound by Archangel Michael, his list of names, 162
Demon-expelling ceremony, Japan, 321
Demons, animal forms assumed by, 262 ; controlled by wizards, 152 ; good, 154 ; Half-head and paral- lels, 172 ; in Indian folktales, 412, sq(j.
Denmark, folklore of, 459, burial of animals in buildings, 360, l)urial of child in wall, ib., the Ellckone,
or hollow-backed fairy, 173, 459 ; Milk-hares, 460 Dennett, R. E., " Notes on the Folk- lore of the Fjort," with Errata,
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Deo in Indian folktales, 413
Dessil, (sunwards) in Hebridean
folklore, 268 Destruction by effigy, India, 403 Detitsckes Krattkkeitsnauien-Buck, von Dr. M. Hofler, reviewed by E. S. Hartland, 476 Devil, the, colour of his eyes, 275 ; Finnish names for, 329, 330, Hebridean euphemism for, 265 ; and Lincoln Minster and College, and parallel stories, 357 ; un- able to injure work done on Tuesday, 267 ; Devils, whistling the speech of, 172 Dhanna the Bhagat, story of, India,
400 Dice, enchanted, made of dead men's
bones, India, 418 Digger Indians, and evolution, 39 Dingwall, animal sacrifices in, 353 Dinner to Prof. Starr, and presenta- tion, 445 Diseases, {see also Medicinal folklore), amulets worn to avert, 154 ; Black Death in Norway, 460- 1 ; Leprosy, Indian folktales, 436 ; Manoro, 286 ; Nereids, as givers of, 168 Disgrace, modes of inflicting, India,
439
Divination, England, 475 ; by barley and beans, Greek Isles, 152 ; by the breath, India, 438 ; by fish- bones, Greek Isles, 182 ; by mirrors, 230 ; by the voice, 154, 155 ; by water and personal possessions, Cos, 178-9
Diving for the Cross, Co.s, 177
Divorce in Indian folklore, 409-10; in Jajianese myth, 301
Docken-stems forbidden for driving cattle, 262
Doctor Brown, in Warwickshire mumming plays, 188
Doe dreaming, Indian folktale, 434, ])r.aying, ib., 416
Dog, Black, of Bungay, 476, as ghost of a man, 1 20
form of Deity, India, 410
assumed by demon,
Hebrides, 262 ; by Sqaktktquaclt, 214-S
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