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alive of child, Denmark, 360, do. in dyke, of would-be destroyer, Groningen, 361 ; Burial on Friday not right, Hebrides, 268 ; human sacrifices, Egypt, 229, Japan, 322 ; Dead men's bones as dice, India, 418, Sati, ib.^ 412 ; Funeral proces- sion seen after sunset, Ireland, 363, Lights on graves, do., 362 ; Build- ing set apart for corpse, Japan, 300, Washing of mourners after interment, ib., 302, Wreaths hung in mortuaries, ib., 321 ; Nails in skulls, Lincolnshire, 457 ; Burial customs, London, 254, 477 ; do., Northumberland, 254

forecasts. Omens or Warnings,

Black lamb if the first seen, 121, clock striking 12, during creed, 480; Dead coach, 1 19, 122 : fowls flying about, 264 ; pigeon entering house, 122, 123, 24S. 333 ; rain- bow 364 ; seeing faces in well on Easter morning, 480 : spirits going to and from church, 481 ; tap on window, 122, 123

savage difficulty in believing in,

338

temporary, Indian folklore,

396

Death-warnings, M. Peacock, 248

Deaths, successive, Hebrides, 272

Deddjal (AntichristX 230

Deer in Indian folktales, 415, 416, 434 : Hira the deer, 416 ; un- grateful, 416 ; with twisted horns, 439

Deification of the Mikados, recent origin of, 323

Deirdre, 220

Deity, Indian peasant ideas of, 440

Deluge, {see also Flood), pyramids as means of escape from, 230

Demeter worship, supposed modern survival of in Sicily, 252

Demon bound by Archangel Michael, his list of names, 162

Demon-expelling ceremony, Japan, 321

Demons, animal forms assumed by, 262 ; controlled by wizards, 152 ; good, 154 ; Half-head and paral- lels, 172 ; in Indian folktales, 412, sq(j.

Denmark, folklore of, 459, burial of animals in buildings, 360, l)urial of child in wall, ib., the Ellckone,

or hollow-backed fairy, 173, 459 ; Milk-hares, 460 Dennett, R. E., " Notes on the Folk- lore of the Fjort," with Errata,

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Deo in Indian folktales, 413

Dessil, (sunwards) in Hebridean

folklore, 268 Destruction by effigy, India, 403 Detitsckes Krattkkeitsnauien-Buck, von Dr. M. Hofler, reviewed by E. S. Hartland, 476 Devil, the, colour of his eyes, 275 ; Finnish names for, 329, 330, Hebridean euphemism for, 265 ; and Lincoln Minster and College, and parallel stories, 357 ; un- able to injure work done on Tuesday, 267 ; Devils, whistling the speech of, 172 Dhanna the Bhagat, story of, India,

400 Dice, enchanted, made of dead men's

bones, India, 418 Digger Indians, and evolution, 39 Dingwall, animal sacrifices in, 353 Dinner to Prof. Starr, and presenta- tion, 445 Diseases, {see also Medicinal folklore), amulets worn to avert, 154 ; Black Death in Norway, 460- 1 ; Leprosy, Indian folktales, 436 ; Manoro, 286 ; Nereids, as givers of, 168 Disgrace, modes of inflicting, India,

439

Divination, England, 475 ; by barley and beans, Greek Isles, 152 ; by the breath, India, 438 ; by fish- bones, Greek Isles, 182 ; by mirrors, 230 ; by the voice, 154, 155 ; by water and personal possessions, Cos, 178-9

Diving for the Cross, Co.s, 177

Divorce in Indian folklore, 409-10; in Jajianese myth, 301

Docken-stems forbidden for driving cattle, 262

Doctor Brown, in Warwickshire mumming plays, 188

Doe dreaming, Indian folktale, 434, ])r.aying, ib., 416

Dog, Black, of Bungay, 476, as ghost of a man, 1 20

form of Deity, India, 410

assumed by demon,

Hebrides, 262 ; by Sqaktktquaclt, 214-S

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