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Omens) ; burial customs, Crathie, 85-6, Jutland, 365, Malay tribes, 456 ; burial of amputated limbs, 82-3, 216 ; chair or stools supporting coffin afterwards overset, Jutland, 366 ; children passed thrice over parent's corpse, Sierra Leone, 88 ; coffin led by rope, Crathie, 86 ; coffin moved in figure of cross, Scan- dinavia, 366, 368 ; corpse carried out feet foremost, 369 ; corpse con- fined to grave by exorcism or oak stave, Scandinavia, 367 ; corpse does not decay if sneezed before, Cos, 331 ; corpse disinterred after three years, if undecayed a vampire, Greek islands, 331 ; The Corpse- Door : A Danish Survival, by H. F. Feilberg, 361, 364-75 [plate) ; corpse has needles run into soles, Jutland, 366, 368 ; corpse removed through hole in wall, Iceland &c., 371-4; corpse has toes tied together, Jut- land, 366, 368 ; crossed straws laid under shroud, Jutland, 366 ; dead, land of, see Hades ; dead share feasts. Sierra Leone, 88 ; dead can- not take short cut, 369 ; dead tread paths between graves, Scandinavia, 367 ; dead worshipped, Oudh, 401 ; death, idea of, in lower culture, 462-6 ; eating not done near burial place, Maoris, 404, or in house with corpse, India, 404, Jews, 405-6 ; fasting after death, India &c. , 397- 410 ; feast of dead, Eskimo, 99 ; flax seed strewn round house, Scan- dinavia, 366, 368-9 ; formula on announcing death, Palestine, 65 ; future life, beliefs about, Scan- dinavia, 366-70 ; gates on road to churchyard hung upside down, Swe- den, 369 ; helping souls of dead children, Japan, 279 ; jars and saucepans turned upside down, Jut- land, 366 ; amongst Khasis, 242 ; memorial stones, Khasis, 241-2 ; mourning customs, British Col- umbia, 398 ; opening windows &c. to release soul, 215, Scandinavia, 370 ; roof opened to release soul, Scandinavia, 370 ; sacrifices to manes, China, 403 ; scissors laid open on corpse, Jutland, 366 ; soul hovers round corpse for 3 nights, Persia, 405 ; suicides, customs in burying, Scandinavia (S:c., 369-73 ;
tanks to cleanse remains of those dying unnatural deaths, Khasis, 241 ; unbaptised buried after sundown, Crathie, 85 ; water in same and adjoining houses thrown away after death, Jews, 405
Death, god of: Gaul, 125, 139-40; Kalunga, Angola, 239
Death Tales of the Ulster Heroes, The, by K. Meyer, reviewed, 224, 227-
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' Death's Deeds,' a Bi-located Story, by A. Lang, 362, 376-90
Deccan : Mahrattas, 427
December : [see also Christmastide ; Kanun ; and St. Stephen's Day) ; guy burnt on last night of year, Guernsey, 449-50
Deer : [see also Mouse deer) ; driving, Malays, 248 ; white roebuck of Annwn, 145
Deisi of Munster : in death story of Celtchar, 229
Deity, conceptions of : Hoffmann's La N'otio7i de PEtre Supreme chez les Petiples Non- Civilises reviewed, 467-9 ; pantheon in jatakas, 22, and amongst Todas, 103-4 ; Torres Straits, 458
Delhi : built by Shah Jahan, 427 ; in folktales, 428-9, 432
Delphi: picture of Ocnos, 19
Deluge legends, 242
Demons and evil spirits : {see also Devil; and ]\nn?,) ; cause diseases, Palestine, 71, and eclipse, Baby- lonia, 416 ; dangerous phrases, Palestine, 58 ; every person has infernal double, Palestine, 71 ; favourite haunts of, Palestine, 58 ; hymns as charms against, Ireland, 348 ; salt keeps off, Palestine, 70 ; 7 preside over month Adar, Baby- lonians, 416 ; singing warns off, Palestine, 59
Denbighshire : bobbing for . apples, Hallowe'en, 438
Denmark : (see also Faroe islands ; Greenland; Iceland; awaT Jutland); folktales, 192, 195-7, 201-2 ; The Corpse- Door : A Danish Survival, by H. F. Feilberg, 361, 364-75
Dennett, R. E. : At the Back of the Black Man's Mind, 442-5
Derbyshire, see Belper; a^r/ Tides well
Dermat O'Dyna, of the Fianna, 28- 31, 45-6, 48
