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Index.

beliefs : [see also Churchyard ; Cremation ; Ghosts ; Graves ; Omens) ; Frazer's The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, vol. i, reviewed, 386-92 ; boats for dead, Kiwai Papuans, 291 ; Breconsh., 511 ; Bronze Age, 253 ; burial customs, 391, gipsies, 343-4, Oxon, 89, Piedmont, 213, S. Amer. Indians, 54, Thonga, 146 ; burial \vithout coffin, Lanes., 31 ; clothing the corpse, gipsies, 345-6 ; corpse must be touched, Oxon, 88, must not be carried past house again, Ontario, 223 ; corpse stops rain, Baluchistan, 231 ; crosses attached to haw- thorn, Wexford, 31 ; dead, voyage of, 253-4 > death, caused by witchcraft, Manipur, 452, never natural, Manipur, 452, S. Amer. Indians, 54-5, of exorcists, Thonga, 146 ; dog slain on grave, Gilyaks, 488 ; fasting, gipsies, 347-8, 351-2 ; feasts, Gilyaks, 488-9, gipsies, 351, Scandinavia, 262 ; future life, beliefs about, Banks' is., 391, Bronze Age, 253, Gilyaks, 488-90, New Guinea, 391, S. Amer. Indians, 54 ; gipsies, 342-55, Herefordsh., 239 ; grave visited, gipsies, 351 ; hawthorn a death tree, 31 ; laments, Kiwai Papuans, 307-8 ; mourning customs, Gilyaks, 487, gipsies, 348, Oxon, 89, Pied- mont, 213-4 '• offerings at grave, gipsies, 351, 355 ; pigeon's feathers hinder death, Oxon, 88 ; property buried with dead, Gil- yaks, 489, gipsies, 345-7. 354. Malta, 264 ; property destroyed after death, gipsies, 348-51 ; Samter's Gebiirt, Hochzeit und Tod reviewed, 126-8 ; S. Amer. Indians, 45 ; stripping flesh from bones, Malta, 264

Decameron, The, 39

December : (see also Christmas- tide ; New Year's Eve ; Parsnip Day); sayings, Breconsh., 511, Piedmont, 216

Deer : stag, village name, Heb- rews, 165

Deities : [see also Earth deities ;

Forest gods ; and under names) ; S. Amer., 42 ; theories of origin of, 3-2-3. 37. 125-6, 527-9

Deluge legends, 41

Demeter, 389

Demons and evil spirits : [see also Devil) ; cause disease, S. Amer., 59-60, and thunder, S. Amer., 57; devil-child, Quebec, 360; Helloi, Manipur, 421, 451 ; Hiiai, Lusheis, 149, 449; in play, Manipur, 418 (plate) ; Sa-roi-nga-roi, Manipur, 421, 430, 449-51

Denbighshire : hiring fairs, 107

Denmark, see Danes ; Iceland

Dermot and Grainne, tale of, 100, 104

Derrygraney : tale, 502

Devi cult, Panjab, 271, 535

Devil : appearances of, Oxon, 84, Piedmont, 363 ; to call up, Oxon, 84 ; in proverbs. Pied- mont, 93-4, Servia, 92 ; S. Amer, Indians, 56-7 ; in tales. Pied- mont, 218, 363-4

Devon : (see also Beesands ; Berry Pomeroy ; Kingsbridge ; Moretonhampstead ; Torcross) ; Christmas custom, 237 ; cutting nails, 221

Dieri : group names, 171 ; mar- riage, 177-9. 183--4

Dieterich, A. : Kleine Schriften reviewed, 137-42

Digo, 460

Dihewyd : hiring fair, 107

Dingo : clan, Aus., 176-81

Dionysus, 35, 141

Diseases : (see also under names) ; amulets against, Italy, 70, 73, Spain, 70 ; binding church against, Crete, 357 ; caused by evil spirits, S. Amer., 59-60, ghosts and witchcraft, 388, tree or spirit, Manipur, 453 ; cured by Umanglais, Manipur, 435

Divination : alphabet in, 140 ; A-vyemba, 269 ; by beans, Cyprus, 358 ; by Bible and key, Crete, 359, Oxon, 80 ; by dreams, Oxon, 79-80, S. Amer., 55 ; by entrails of animals, Manipur, 438, 441-2 ; by fishes, Manipur, 450 ; by grass, Oxon, 80-1 ; by growth of special crops, Manipur, 446 ; by hazel