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Index.

Dog mangled by spirits, Ireland,

363

Dog-natured people, 214

Dog, not the friend of man in Indian

folklore, 415 Dogs not to be called by name at

night, Hebrides, 265 Doll in May garlands, 444 Domestic customs, Indian folklore,

439 ..

Domestication of animals in evolution

of society, 374, et seq. Donkey's hairs on bread and butter

as cure for whooping cough,

Dorset, 489 Door opening, blessing on, 261

locked during marriage cere- mony, Neston, 350

signed with cross Cos, 178,

Cyprus, 365, Hebrides, 260 ;

Dorsetshire, Christmas Mummers in, 186

Folklore collected in 1897,

by H. Colley March, 478

game of King-sealing, 336

result of excavations in, 87, et

sqq.

Dove, white as departing soul-form,

France, 333 Dragons in Irish folklore and parallels,

218; in Japanese folklore, 312, 317;

unknown to Warwickshire mum- mers, 188 Dreaming of the dead, meaning of,

116 ; prevented by touching face of

corpse, 254, 477 Dreams, old German auguries from,

116; ghosts seen in, India, 395;

in Indian folklore, 433-4 Dresses, magic, 496, 498, 502 Drink of holy water for learning to

read, 171 ; of lustration water, by

patient, 167 ; shared in unbinding

spell for married persons, 159 Driver, headless, 119 Droit du seigneur, in Arabia, 229 ; in

Egypt, ib. Drowned body to discover, 114, 115 Drowning, Ilebridean euphemism for,

265 Druid ceremonial use of white cattle,

353 Dry ask, powers and uses of^ 252 Dub-grass, made evergreen, India,

398, 400 Dublin county, dread of the newt in,

25'

Dun Bull of Cuailgne, 218

Duncan, Leland L., Irish Folklore,

1 18-9 Dwarf deity, Japan, 5^^ Sukuna-bikona white men said to fall from the

sky in rain, Baronga folklore, 227 Dwarves, Scandinavian folklore, 459 Dying man as messenger to the gods,

Australia, 28 Dzimwe, the, African folklore, 284

Eagle, the fore-knowing, 213-4 ; friendly, 497

Ear-boring ceremonies, Indian folk- lore, 439

Ear-rings as caste indications, ib., for children, when made, 154 ; in crescent shape, 457

Easter Day, burning of straw effigy of Judas, in Cos, 178; cakes laid on graves, Calymnos, 180-1 ; lovers burning threads on, 180 ; seeing faces of those doomed to die, in holy well, 480

Eve, animal sacrifices on, Cos,

177-8

Eastern origin of Italian tales, 103

Eating of totems, rules for, Australia,

494

of underworld food, fatal results

of, Japanese myths, 300, Greek parallel, 301

Echo, (tree-spirit), Japan, 317

Eddie Poems, British source, date of and transmission, 450-1

Eerm transformed into an owl, Aus- tralia, 55

Efts, hybernating, 364

Egg laid on Thursday by black fowl used in love philtre, 169

Emu, Australian taboo of, 1 1

hero and others, Indian folklore,

426

yolk of used in love philtre,

170

Eggs in May garlands, 444

Egypt, flints found in, 87, folklore of, (see St. Clair), ancient religion of, astronomical character of, 231 ; astronomical myths of, 109 ; castes in, 229 ; distillation of water in, 230 ; droit du seigneur in, 229 ; funeral sacrifices in, ib. ; Malik king of, and parallel, 230 ; mono- theism in, 231 ; parasite and traveller tale and parallel, 118; reason for Shepherd invasion of, 231