Cuckoo, Aino beliefs concerning the, 47
Curiosity, punishment of, Aino folk-tale, 19
Cycle of Aino folk-tales, 30-33
Dance, fairy, Sutherlandshire, 217
Dances, with cakes, Roscommon, 57
Danes' blood, Rutlandshire, 273
Death, cured by magic medicine, Sutherlandshire, 178
customs at, Ross-shire, 262-264
omens, Washington, 91; Sutherlandshire, 243; Ross-shire, 262
origin of, Mentra, 67
warning of, Sutherlandshire, 239, 243
work stopped after death of a townsman, Antrim, 56
Deceiver, the clever, Aino folk-tale, 43-45
Deer, enchanted, of Reay forest, 226
Defibulation, ceremony of, Somali, 124
Demon, stealing of human wife by, Aino, 20
Dempster (Miss), Folk-Lore of Sutherlandshire, 149-189, 215-252
Descent, rules of, in Ross-shire folk-lore, 263
Devil, legend connected with, 125-128, 164, 180
Devil's glen, county Wicklow, 274
jump, legend of, near "Washington, 87
Nightcap, a stone so called. Dorsetshire, 117
Diamond, triple, of Ben Stack, Sutherlandshire, 241
Diarmid, death of, Sutherlandshire folk-tale, 159-160
Disease, cause of, by dreaming, 50; cures for, 133
Dog, origin of, in Mentra legend, 67
Dogs, excretion of gold and silver by, Aino, 22
why they cannot speak, Aino, 8; their affection for the fox, Aino, 16; powers of sight, Aino, 37; Ross-shire, 263
Domestic folk-lore, Washington, 91-92; Ross-shire, 962-263
Door, opening of, at time of death, Sutherlandshire, 243
Door-posts, god of the, Aino, 40
Dorsetshire folk-lore, 115-119
Dove, heroine assumes form of, Hungarian folk-tale, 208
Dowry, marriage, Somali, 119; Ceylon, 140
Dragon fight, legend of, derived from clouds, 102
god, Aino, 13
legends, Sutherlandshire, 156, 232
Dreams, Aino, 39, 50; Sutherlandshire, 233-235
Drowning, death from rising tide, Sutherlandshire, 152; superstitions, 242
Earth, condition of, in the beginning of the world, Aino, 19; Mentra, 66
Earthquakes caused by wriggling of gigantic fish, Aino, 3, 194
Easter customs, county Clare, 54; Spain, 210
Eating, taboo against, in Hades (fairy land), Aino, 35, Wales, 192
Eclipse, origin of, Mentra, 68
Eggs, trundling of, county Down, 60
Eight, the figure, in conjuring, Wales, 126
Essex, singing game, 211
Eye, evil, Sutherlandshire, 245; Ross-shire, 264
Eyed, one, monsters, origin of in cloud forms, 110
Exogamy and blood feud, Somali, 123
Face of goddess not to be seen, Aino folk-tale, 19
Fairies, belief in, Roscommon, 56; Down, 60; Wales, 191
man carried off by, Perthshire, 271
mountain, Sutherlandshire, 173, 217
wizard's power over, Sutherlandshire, 153
Fairy children, Sutherlandshire, 182
people, in Feroe Islands, 126
stories, Sutherlandshire, 215-220
Family, special, superstitions, 59, 64, 221, 247
Famine, legend of, Aino, 193
Fatal localities to certain persons, 151
Female succession, Mentra, 72
Fenian's (St.) Well, Queen's county, 61
Feroe Islands, folk-lore of, 129-133
Festivals at wells, Sligo, 52
Fingal, mention of, in Sutherlandshire stories, 159, 162, 221, 231
Fire, ceremonies at birth, Hindu, 75, at death, Aino, 271