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Index.

by garlands, White Ruthenians, 95 ; by passing child through ■walnut-tree. Piedmont, 279; by pyromancy, Greece, 130- ; by roasting chestnuts, Sussex, 369; by shadows. White Ruthenians, 96; by smoke, India etc., 76-7, 82 ; by sowing hempseed, Jerse}', 248 ; by water, White Ruthen- ians, 96 ; of health, Piedmont, 279; of lover, Jersey, 247-8; of marriage, Sussex, 369, WMte Ruthenians, 95-6; of rain, India, 76-7 ; of weather, India,

76

Dizanedu festival, Kafirs, 71

Doe, see Deer

Dog : eaten at New Year feast, Assam, 477 ; in folk-medicine, Jersey, 249 ; hair cures hydro- phobia. Piedmont, 278 ; spirit as, Waterford, 227, 241, West Indies, 371 ; in sun myth, As- sam, 485 ; in tales, 261, Assam, 488-9, Ireland, 239-40, 331-3. 337-8 ; wicked soul as. Piedmont, 279; Avizard as, Jersey, 244

Dolmens : Channel is., 41 1-2, 419

Dominica : zombi, 371

Donegal, see Ballyshannon

Dorobo, 459

Dorset : custom of spinsters, 294

Dove : in songs. White Ruthen- ians, 216-8, 223; in tale, Congo, 141

Drachen imd Drachenkampfer, by G. Roheim, reviewed, 132-4

Dragon : Roheim's Drachen und Drachenkampfer and Polites' Greek Popular Songs on St. George and the Dragon reviewed, 132-4; Piedmont, 278; in tales, Swiss, 274

Dragonfl}-: 'enchanted maid,' 203

Dreams : dead appear in, Africa, 314; di\-ination by, India, 398- 400, Jersey, 247, White Ruthen- ians, 96 ; omens from, see Omens

Dress, see Clothing

Dressmakers, folklore of, 371

Drolls : E. Africa, 463, 472-3 ; Swiss, 271

Drowning : corpse carried round house, Aberdeensh., 348

Drum : in ceremonies, Abyssinia, 321-2, Egypt, 302-4, Sudan, 308, 315-20

Duck : foot works evil, Devon, 126 ; not hatched, June 24-July 6, Sussex, 369 ; in songs, White Ruthenians, 214

Ducking : at festival, Kafirs, 71

Dudley : Mid-Lent Sunday, 370 ; omen, 370

Dumfriesshire : tale, 353

Dunbeg : tale, 378

Dung, see Cowdung

Dunmore : " the keener," 87

Durga, deity, India, 153-5, ^79

Durris : birth beliefs, 349

Dwarfs: in tales, Swiss, 274, Waterford, iii, 120-1

Eagle : respected, Siberia, 48

Ear ; omens from, Jerse}', 246, N.E. Scot., 350

Earth: magical, Lemnos etc., 264

East : bad spirits from, Siberia, 51 ; in divination, India, 77 ; at festival, India, 61 ; good spirits from, Siberia, 51 ; in human sacrifice, India, 186; lucky, India, 60-1

Easter Monday : Jersey, 243

Easter Sunday : rhyme, Sussex, 369 ; saying, Sussex, 369

Eastertide : {see also Easter Mon- day ; Easter Sunday ; Easter Tuesday) ; marriage time, Wor- cestersh., 370; pace-egger 'splay, Westmor. etc., 373, 377

Easter Tuesday : games and pace- egging, Westmor., 373

East Indies, see Borneo ; New Guinea

Ebb-tide: beasts not slaughtered during, Quebec, 252

Editor of Folk-Lore, 4

Eggs : in folk-medicine, Jersey, 249 ; at Holi, India, 61 ; odd number lucky, Jersey, 247 ; omens from, Jersey, 246

Eg3-pt : amulet, 210; On the Origin of the Egj'ptian Zar, by B. Z. Sehgmann,_ 300-23 (pi.)

Elander, R. : on the clan, 129

Elder-tree : ill-omened, Ireland, 258

Elephant : in dreams, India etc., 399 ; effigy in meriah sacrifice, India, 184-5; heart in medi- cine. Piedmont, 279 ; in tales, India, 399, 489