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366 Courtney (Miss M. A.): on Cornish Folk-lore, 14-61, 85-112, 197-220

Couvade, custom of, 351

Cow, lactiferous, in Irish legend, 66

Cow belonging to fairies yielding more milk, 177

Cradle, superstitions connected with, 210

Cramp, charms for cure of, 201, 202

Irish plant cure for, 12

Crane's bill, cure for hæmorrhage, 13

Creation, legend of, in Guiana, 317

Crickets, Irish superstition about, G9

Crows and St. Neot, legend of, 32

Cuckoo, Cornish Gochamite story of, 34

Culdaff, Donegal, customs in, 331-332

"Cursing" stone used by Irish people in Donegal, 68

Cuts, Irish cures for, 11

"Cutters and Trucklers," Cornish boys' game, 60

Dances, secular and religious, of primitive people in Asia and Africa, 246-254, 273-314

in Christian churches, 300-305

of howling and dancing dervishes, 284-286

funeral, in the Sahara, 290; of Greece, 292-295

pyrrhic, of the High Alps, 312-314

religious, of South Italy, 305-311; similar to that of Rugonath, in Himalayas, 309-311

of Spain, 295-299; gipsy, 297

Dandelion, cure for stomach disorders, 12

"Darkies' song," Barbadoes negro song, 6-7

Days, holy, in Antrim, 333

lucky, chosen for burial in China, 239, 240

lucky and unlucky, in Cornwall, 190

Dead man's hand, used as charm, Cornwall, 204, 205

Death, signs of, 107

customs, Chinese, 235-245; Cornwall, 32, 218; in Sligo, 334

West Indies omen of, 315

Decorations for New Year in Japan, 154-156

Deluge legend, tradition of, among the Fijians, 257; of Guiana, 317, 321

Demon stories, Cornish, 23-28

Dervish, meaning of word, 284

Dervishes, dances and exercises of, 284-286

Devil bird of Ceylon, legend of, 352

Devil's footprints, markings in stones called, 106

"Devil's door" at Wellcombe Church, 35

Devnish, co. Fermanagh, customs in, 333

Dew-snail used in cure, 199

Diarrhœa, Irish plant cures for, 12

Diokleia, Greek festival called, 292

Diseases cured by Aïssaoua Arabs, 280

charms for curing, Cornwall, 31.199,

cures for, in Donegal, 332-333

cured by San Filippo, in Sicily, 71

cattle, cures for in Donegal, 332

Divination at Cornish Mên-an-tol, 31; [sic] at Cornish wells, 92

Divorce, reasons for in China, 230; form of, among the Somali, 323

Dock, cure for liver complaints, 13

Dodge (Rev. R.), Cornish ghost layer, 25

Dog, howling of, omen of ill-luck among aboriginal Formosa, 151

Donegal folk-lore, 66-68

customs and traditions in, 331-332

Donkey's ear used as cure in Cornwall, 210

Doors, forbidden, in the thousand and one night stories, 112-124

Dosmery pool, Cornwall, tasks of ghosts at, 100

Dove, spotted, Malay tradition about, 331

Doves, maidens in form of, in Forbidden Door story, 118

Dravidian Nights Entertainment, reviewed, 170-172

Dreams, miraculous, attributed to fairies, 186

omens from, 213, 214, 215

Dress worn by Moors and Arabs, 286-288

of people of Cairo, 283-284; of dancing and howling dervishes, 284-286

of corpses in China, 238

of choristers in Seville Cathedral dance, 304

of Greek people at festival of Diokleia, 293-296