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Dharma worship, Bengal, 223
Digo tribe : witch medicine, 72
Dikdik in folktale, Somalis, 324
Diocsesarea : coins, 308
Dione, myth of, 301
Dionysus : on coins, Tenedos, 284 : priestess of, Cos, 376 ; in story of Sithon, 381
Dioscuri, myth of, 434, 446
Diseases : caused by deity Njanibe, Congo, 327, evil spirits, E. Central Africa, 70, magic, 149, or wizard, mid England, 16 ; charms against, see Charms and spells ; exorcism of disease demons, 157 ; Jerusalem, 187-8 ; sick prayed for under dif- ferent names, Jews, 186, 193
Dius and Oxylus, contest of, 398-9
Divination : {see also Omens ; and Oracles) ; by Bible and key, Jamaica, 93 ; by cow and cake, Monmouthshire, 221 ; by dreams, Oropus, 272 ; by swinging ring, Jamaica, 93 ; by throwmg bones, Basutos, 246; origin of, 138, 164
Divining bolt, Tibet, 243
Divining rods : E. Central Africa, 70-1
Dodona: cult of oak Zeus, 415 ; doves at, 415; inscription from, 415; intermittent spring at, 275, 295 ; oak, piece of, inserted in Argo, 270, 424 ; oracle at, 275, 295, 422 ; Zeus the stream god, 269
Dog : black, evil spirit in shape of, Ireland, 337 ; black, ghost in shape of, Monmouthshire, 83-4 ; blood- hounds guard fort of Red Branch, 31 ; carcase spat on, Fifeshire, 98 ; bones of sacrificial ox not given to, Basutos, 257 ; in charm necklace, Yemen Jews, 191 ; in folktale, Somalis, 322 ; howls when sees duppy, Jamaica, 206, 214 ; name of warriors at battle of Cattraeth, 205 ; omens from, Jamaica, 90, 206, 21 1-2, 453 ; Orthros sometimes three-headed, 284; assun devourer, N. America, 366 ; three-headed hound of Serapis, 291 ; must not walk behind one at night, Jamaica, 208 ; water from eye enables to see duppies, Jamaica, 208
Dog Spirit, The, Irish folktale, 337-8
Doliche : Jupiter Dolichenus wor- shipped, 428
Dolls : as offerings, Basutos, 249
Dolma jan-k'u, Tibetan deity, 332
Dolphin : servant of Zeus, 269
Domhnall, Amazon of Alba, 34
Donkey : blue necklaces &c., Jeru- salem, 189 ; in charm against whooping cough, Ireland, 460 ; in folktale, Ireland, 337-8 ; nickname of Guernsey man, 123 ; parish nick- name, Guernsey, 123 ; lucky from cross on back, Ireland, 338
Doss in Irish bardic schools, 15
Dotium : names of clan and king at, 289
Dove : associated with saint, Morocco, 367 ; at Dodona, 415 ; omen from, Jamaica, 451 ; sacred to Zeus Amnion, 295 : white, released at Epiphany, Crete and Greece, 214
Dove river : bull-running connected with, Tutbur}'. 199
Dragon : in folktale, Somalis, 319 ; Garafena guards sun, Russia, 293 ; as sun-devourer, Asia, 366
Drake, see Duck
Drama, Folk, see Folk-drama
Dreams : animals seen in, Jamaica, 211 ; metals seen in, Jamaica, 211, 456 ; omens from, Greece, 281, Jamaica, 21 1-2, 456; oracular, Oropus, 272; trees in, Jamaica, 212
Drinking, blessing at, Jerusalem, 1 87
Drinking from pot at early age pre- vents beard, Jamaica, 213
Drisac in Irish bardic schools, 14
Drone, see Bee
Drowning : body at bottom six weeks, Fifeshire, 97 ; how two sexes float, Fifeshire, 97
Druids : Cathbad, 26-7, 29-30 ; Gaul, 12-4; Ireland, 15-7, 26-7; Levar- cham, 33-4
Drum : skull, Tibet, 243, 333-4 {plate')
Drumconrath : wise woman makes butter come, 458
Dryas, father of Munichus, 389
Drj'as, suitor of Pallene, 381
Dryope, myth of, 418
Dryops, eponym of Dryopes, 386
Dryops, King, see King Dryops
Dublin county, see Howth
Duck : feather in dress of chief poet, Ireland, 15; in story of Deirdre, 38 ; wild, witch takes shape of, Guernsey, 123
Dugong : fishmg ceremonies, Torres Straits, 357-8
