417; Midsummer Eve, 141; Midwinter, 414–5; Moharrem, 196–7; Monday, 197; New Year's Day, 271, 338–9, 341; November, 30, 349; October, 44, 58, 197, 211–2, 319–20, 420; Palm Sunday, 470; Ramadan, 197; St Barnabas' Day, 311; St Bartholomew's Day, 311; St Brigit's Festival, 325–6; St Maree's Day, 333; St Nicholas' Day, 383; St Ruffus' Feast, 333; Samain, feast of, 30, 44, 58; September, 276; Shrove Tuesday, 275; Spring, 197, 279, 286–7; Sunday, 197, 470; Thursday, 272; Tuesday, 46, 275; Wednesday, 197; Winter, 258, 262, 414, 416, 418
Death and funeral customs and beliefs: (see also Ghosts; and Graves); burial customs, Icelandic sagas, 397, 400–5, 408, 410–1, Manyika, 487, Shangaans, 484, Zulus, 484; corpse not passed in front of, Iceland, 411; corpse removed through hole in wall, Shangaans, 484; cremation, Norway, 410; dead affected by condition of howe, Iceland, 404; dead, gifts to, Iceland, 397, 402–3, Philippines, 122, Upper Egypt, 197, 199–200; dead inhabit black boulder, Philippines, 122, or howe, Iceland, 404–5; dead invoked at sacrifice, Zulus, 483; feast among graves, end of Ramadan, Upper Egypt, 197; feast three months after death, Manyika, 487; fire lighted at graves, Australia, 261; future life, beliefs about, Iceland, 400–4, 410, Paraguay, 124, Philippines, 122; graves slept upon, N.S. Wales, 261; kraal removed after death, Shangaans, 484; sick allowed to die in hut, Manyika, 487, Zulus, 484
'Death' buried or cast out, 258–9, 286
December: (see also Christmas; Christmas Day; Christmas Eve; Innocents' Day; and St Nicholas' Day); 6–8, annual fair, St Neot's (Hunt.), 44; 17th St Nicholas' fair, St Neot's (Hunt.), 44
Dechtire, mother of Cuchulain, 1634, 166
Deer: Finn MacCumall connected with, 435–6; in folktales, Ireland, 342, 435; horns as amulets, Spain, 455–6 (plate); in legend of St Neot, 46; of Luibnech eaten by Irish king, 162; Oisin's mother a deer, 435; shape-shifting into, Ireland, 435; skins worn by Finn MacCumall, 433; white, in ballad, Bretagne, 314
Deity, conceptions of: Australia, 116–7, 174–6, 186, 188, 288–90; Kamtchadales, 248
Delhi: string game, 88
Delos: Nike of Mikkiades, 139
Delphyne, snake gaoler of Zeus, 28
Demons and evil spirits: (see also Devil); Airi the huntsman, India, 136; back-footed, India &c., 131–2, 136; churels, India, 136; snake-man. New Caledonia, 131, 138
Denmark: (see also Faroes; Greenland; and Iceland); cat's cradle, 92; root cognate to Nuada, 47
Deorgreine, bride of Laegaire, 163
Dergcroche, King, see King Dergcroche
Devil: back-footed, Ireland, 131, 133; cloven hoof, 140; driving out, Esthonia, 263; goat's legs, 133, 140; origin of crystal-gazing, 232; in "wassail box," Yorkshire, 349
Devil outwitted type of folktales, 253
Devon: Dumnonii, 42; string trick, 358–9.
Diamantina river: relationships, 109
Diana: Grainne compared with, 441; Nemorensis, solar, 441, 445; related to Virbius, 442; St Brigit compared with, 326
Dian-Cecht, leech of Irish gods, 29, 209
Diarmuid and Grainne, 439–444, 448, 451–3
Dice games: Philippines, 121
Dieri, see Dieyeri
Dieyeri tribe: 293; corroboree, 489; marriage customs, 177–9, 181–6, 294–7, 301, 305; no All-Father belief, 289; relationships, 108–10, 296–7, 303; totemism, 108–9
Dinas Eiddyn, see Edinburgh
Dinas Emreis or Ffaraon, in tale from Mabinogion, 49
Dingwall: sacrifices on St Maree's day, 333
Dinnsenchus, the, 60–7, 161
Dinodig, tale of prince of, 311–2
Dionysus: annual marriage, Athens, 378–9.
Dioscuri, The, 493–8
