Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 23, 1912.djvu/557

 Index.

533

Damara : cow etc. respected, 275

Dames, M. Longworth : review by, — Thurston's Castes and Tribes of Southern India, 140-1

Dances : Corsica, 392 ; Glos., 446 ; Greek, Cappadocia, 83-5 ; Iowa, 407 ; morris, Herefordshire, 385, London, 410-1 ; Suk, 402 ; sword, 7

Dandelion : leaves cure indiges- tion, Donegal, 474

Danes, in traditions, Glos., 340,

485 Daphlas : milk tabooed, 287 Daraniulun, All Father, Australia,

376 Dards : cow tabooed, 283 ; milk

tabooed, 286 Dartford : ague cure, 353 Days and Seasons : All Saints, 443. 453 ; April, 197, 202, 450 ; Ascension Day, 452 ; Ash Wed- nesday, 444 ; Aug., 454 ; Candlemas Day, 443 ; Carling Sunday, 444; Carnival, 21, 420-2, 460 ; Christmas Day, ^55 ; Christmas Eve, 345, 350, 505 ; Christmastide, 345, 350, 385-6, 455. 504-6 ; Dec, 345, 350, 385, 4-4. 455. 457. 504-6 ; diseases result according to date on which begin, 493-4, Japan, igo ; Doomsday, 24S ; Easter Mon- day, 197, 201-3, 444-6; Easter Sunday, 345 ; Eastertide, 197, 200-3, 345. 354. 384. 445. 460 ; Easter Tuesday, 197, 200 ; Feb., 352, 443 ; 5th day of 3th month, Japan, 188-90 ; Friday, 38, 127. 214, 345, 352, 354, 444, 459, 462 ; Good Friday, 127,

352, 444 ; Guy Fawkes' Day, 145, 409-26, 455 ; Hallowe'en, 419-22, 443, 500-1 ; Hereford- shire, 383 ; Hoke Day, 201 ; Holy Cross Day, 454 ; Jan., 385-6, 443 ; July, 140 ; June, 140, 352 ; Kanoye ne, 190 ; Kartik, 425 ; Lady Day, 443 ; Lammas, 443 ; Lent, 21, ^^^, 384, 444 ; Low Sunday, 447-9 ; March, 140, 443 ; Martinmas, 420 ; May, 197, 202, 353, 385, 443. 450-2 ; May Day, 197, 202,

353, 385, 443, 450-1 ; May Eve, 197, 202 ; Michaelmas, 352, 500 ; Monday, 197, 201-3, 214,

444-6; Mothering Sunday, 353, 384, 444 ; New Year, 385-6, 424-6, 443 ; New Year's Day, 385-6, 443 ; New Year's Eve, 424 ; November, 145, 409-26, 421, 423, 443, 453-4. 463 ; Oak- apple Day, 451-2; October, 353-4, 419, 449-50 : Palm Sun- day, 345 ; Phalgun, 425-6 ; St. Bride's Day, 500 ; St. Michael's Day, 352, 500 ; St. Peter's Day, 203, 352 ; Saints' Days, 351-2 ; the seasons and Bantu noun classes, 144 ; Sept., 203, 352, 444. 453-4. 500 ; 7th day of 7th month, 189 ; Shick-shack Day, 452 ; Shrovetide, 197-9, 201, 203, 444 ; Shrove Tuesday, 197-9, 201, 203, 444 ; Sunday, 38,345. 353-4. 459. 477; Tues- day, 38, 197-9, 200-1, 203, 214, 444, 459 ; Twelfth Day, 385-6 ; Uchdl day, Malabar, 35, 44 ; Valentine's Day, 352, 443 ; Whit ^Monday, 452-3 ; W'hit Sunday, 452 ; year, last day of, Japan, 1SS-9

Dead, land of, see Hades

Death : angel of, Palestine, 514 ; origin of, Baganda, 134, Bush- men, 260, Hottentots, 260

Death and funeral customs and beliefs : {see also Churchyard ; Ghosts ; Graves ; Omens) ; burial customs, Assam, 182, 466-7 ; burial fees, Congo, 215 ; coffin set down at cross-roads, and carried sunwise round churchyard, Herefordshire and Wales, 385 ; compensation for deaths, Congo, 216 ; confession of sins, S. India, 140 ; crema- tion, Muppans, 42 ; deaths come b\^ threes, Clare, 207 ; dirges, Herefordshire, 384 ; escape of soul, Celts, 125 ; funeral feasts, India, 115, 298 ; funeral rites, Clare, 209-10, ^luppans, 42 ; future life, be- liefs about, Assam, 466-7, Borneo, 408, Congo, 217, Suk, 402, Thonga, 519-20; gipsy, 22 ; herbs beneath corpse's head, Arabia, 403 ; of infants and in childbirth, Assam, 463-71 ; iron in grave before burial, Albania, 228 ; jawbone preserved sepa-