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in antiquity, 305;
  from demeanour of victim, 326;
  from eggs, 331;
  from involuntary movements of limbs, etc., 329;
  from meetings on the road, 306;
  from pig's spleen, 325;
  from sheep's shoulder-blade, 321 ff.;
  from sieves, 331;
  from water, 332 f.;
  methods of, compared, 298;
  suggested divisions of, 298;
  various branches of, 298

Dog howling at night, significance of, 328

Dogs, 32

Donkey, ill-omened, 307

Dragons, as guardians of buried treasure, 281;
  in folk-story, 82;
  popular conception of, 280;
  story of, 281 f.

Drama, primitive, 224-6;
  restrictions of, 429;
  rudiments of, 35

Dreams, 300 ff.;
  deliberately induced, 303;
  ecclesiastical use of, 301

Dress, at weddings and at funerals, 557

'Drumlike' (as description of dead bodies) (see [Greek: tympaniaios]), 370

Drunkenness, when permissible, 303, 533

Dryads, 151


Eagle, 309

Easter, 575 f.;
  celebration of, 572 ff.

Ecstasy, in ancient religion, 37;
  religious, 294 f., 576

Eleusinian mysteries (see Mysteries of Demeter)

Eleusis, excavations in cemetery at, 495

Empusa, 174, 175

Entrails, inspection of victim's, 320, 325

Ephialtes, 21 (note 2)

Epiphany, observance of, 197;
  superstitions concerning, 221

Equality of men and gods, 604

Erinyes (see Furies)

Eros, 118-120

'Eternal drunkenness,' 39

Ethical influence of Christianity, 39

Eudaemonia, as goddess, 602

Eumaeus, reception of Odysseus by, 32

Euphemistic names for deities, 69, 70

Euripides, popular form of imprecation utilised by, 418

Evil Eye, amulets against, 13;
  animals affected by, 11-12;
  cures for maladies caused by, 14;
  effects of, 10;
  inanimate things affected by, 12;
  in Greece, 9-15;
  means of averting, 14;
  persons affected by, 11;
  to whom attributed, 9-10;
  widespread belief in, 8

Excommunication (see also 'binding' and 'loosing'), 401;
  causing non-dissolution, instances of, 398 ff.;
  effects of, 386, 396 ff.;
  origin of, 406;
  pagan influence on doctrine of, 401 f.

Execration (see Curses, Imprecations)

Exhumation, 540;
  at end of three years, 487

Exile, as punishment of homicide, 445, 455

Exorcism, by witch, 14-15


'Fair Lady of the Mountains,' 166

Faith-cures, 60, 62

Fallmerayer, 25

Fasts, strictly observed, 574

Fate, 289

Fates, the, 120-130;
  appearance of, 124;
  at birth of Athena, 130;
  character of, 125;
  distribution of functions among, 127;
  functions of, 124, 127;
  inexorability of, 122;
  invocations of, 122, 128;
  number of, 124;
  offerings to, 120, 121, 125;
  prayer to, 123;
  seen or heard, 125-6;
  the lesser, 127-8;
  visits of, 125;
  wrath of, 126

Festival-dress, as heirloom from mother to daughter, 537

Festivals, popular, 34, 35;
  survival of pagan, 221 ff.

Fire, kept burning at grave-side, 507 ff.;
  omens drawn from, 328

Fishing-net, as prophylactic, 21

Five, ominous number, 307 (note 1)

Flood, modern traditions of the, 93

Folklore, antiquity of, 8;
  as clue to ancient religion, 7;
  laws of, 8

Folk-stories and ancient myths, relation of, 76

Foreign cults naturalised in Greece, 580

Forestry, superstitions relating to, 158

Fortieth day after death, customs and beliefs concerning, 486 ff.

Foundation-stone, ceremonial of laying, 264

Funeral-customs, 345 ff., 496 ff.;
  assimilated to marriage-customs, 560;
  compared with marriage-customs, 554 ff.;
  in relation to the Mysteries, 593 f.

Funeral-feasts (see also Memorial Feasts), 532 f.

Funeral-meats, 533 f., 535 f.

Funeral-rites, Christian and pagan contrasted, 501;
  Homeric, 492;
  in Dipylon-period, 494;
  Mycenaean, 493;
  purpose of, 485 ff.;
  why necessary for due dissolution of body, 490

Funerals, Solon's regulations concerning, 346 ff.

Funeral-usage, summary of conclusions concerning, 513 f.

Furies, as agents of Clytemnestra, 448;
  as personified Curses, 448;
  in Homer, 522;
  origin of Aeschylus' conception of, 460 f.

Furtwängler, on death conceived as wedding, 597