xi. 189

Cytisorus, son of Phrixus, iv. 162

Cyzicus, council chamber at, built without iron, iii. 230; worship of the Placianian Mother at, v. 274 _n._; bull-shaped image of Dionysus at, vii. 16; vicarious sacrifice at, viii. 95 _n._ 2

Czech maidens, love charm practised by, on St. George’s Eve, ii. 345 _sq._

—— saying as to the dying, iii. 33 _n._ 3

—— villages of Bohemia, the Shrovetide Bear in the, viii. 326; the Three Kings of Twelfth Night in, ix. 330 _sq._

Czechs of Bohemia, the Carrying out of Death among the, iv. 221; the Corn-mother among the, vii. 132 _sq._; cull simples at Midsummer, xi. 49

Dabelow, in Mecklenburg, precaution against witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 163 _n._ 1

Daçaratha festival in India, iv. 124

Dacia, hot springs in, v. 213

Dacotas or Sioux, the, their fear of having their pictures taken, iii. 96; custom observed by manslayers among, iii. 181; avoidance of wife’s mother among, iii. 338; their belief as to stepping over animals, iii. 423; their theory of the waning moon, vi. 130; ate the livers of dogs to make them brave, viii. 145; their belief in the resurrection of dogs, viii. 256 _sq._; ritual of death and resurrection among, xi. 268 _sq._

_Dad_ pillar. _See_ Ded pillar

Daedala, Boeotian festival of the Great, ii. 140 _sq._, xi. 77 _n._ 1

Daedalus, the artist, made a dance for Ariadne, iv. 71; made a hollow cow for Pasiphae, iv. 71

Dag, an early king of the Shilluk, iv. 28

Dageon, fire kept up during king’s life in, ii. 261 _sq._

Dagobert, King, privilege granted by him to St. Romulus or St. Ouen, ii. 165

Dah River, in Ashantee, royal criminals drowned in, iii. 243; annual ablutions in the, viii. 63

Dahomans, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 66

Dahomey, human wives of gods in, ii. 149; royal criminals drowned or strangled in, iii. 243; indifference to death in, iv. 138; religious massacres in, iv. 138; the Amazons of, viii. 149

——, the king of, iii. 374; human victims drowned by, ii. 158; not allowed to behold the sea, iii. 9; not to be seen eating, iii. 118

——, kings of, their true names kept secret, iii. 374; their “strong names,” iii. 374; represented partly in human, partly in animal forms, iv. 85; their human sacrifices, vi. 97 _n._ 7

——, Porto Novo in, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 205

——, royal family of, iii. 243; related to leopards, iv. 85

Dainyal, diviner or Sibyl, in the Hindoo Koosh, i. 383

Daira or Mahadev Mohammedans in Mysore, mock rite of circumcision among the, iv. 220

Dairi, the, or Mikado of Japan, iii. 2, 4. _See_ Mikado

Dairies, sacred, of the Todas, iii. 15 _sqq._

Dairy, mistletoe used to make the dairy thrive, xi. 86

Dairyman, sacred, of the Todas, iii. 15 _sqq._; his custom as to the pollution of death, vi. 228; bound to live apart from his wife, vi. 229

Daizan, king of Atrae, his treacherous daughter, x. 83

Dajang, Miss, a personification of the rice among the Battas, vii. 196

Dalai Lama of Lhasa, regarded as a living god, i. 411 _sq._; his palace, i. 412

Dalarne, the Yule-ram in, viii. 328

Dalecarlia, observances at turning out the cattle to the summer pastures in, ii. 342

Dalhousie Castle, the Edgewell Tree at, xi. 166

Dalisandos in Isauria, inscriptions at, vi. 213 _n._ 1

Dallet, Ch., on the Corean objection to put the face of the king on coins, iii. 99

Dalmatia, rain-making in, i. 274; belief as to the souls of trees in, ii. 14; the Yule log in, x. 263

Dalsland, in Sweden, observances at turning out the cattle to graze in the forest in, ii. 341 _sq._

Dalton, Colonel E. T., on mock human sacrifices among the Bhagats, iv. 217 _sq._; on the fear of demons among the Oraons, ix. 92 _sq._; on the annual expulsion of demons among the Hos of North-East India, ix. 136 _sq._

Dalyell, J. G., on Beltane, x. 149 _n._ 1

Dama, exorcism of demons of sickness in the island of, viii. 101 _sq._

Damara hunters, ceremony observed by, iii. 220

Damaras or Herero, their fire-customs, ii. 211 _sqq._; their ceremony on return from a journey, iii. 112; their mode of killing their cattle, iii. 247. _See also_ Herero

Damascus, Aramean kings of, v. 15

Damasen, a giant, in a Lydian story, slays a serpent, v. 186

Damatrius, a Greek month, vi. 49 _n._ 1, vii. 46

Damba, island in Lake Victoria Nyanza, crocodiles sacred in, viii. 213

Damia and Auxesia, female powers of fertility at Troezen, i. 39

Dams, continence at making or repairing, iii. 202; in Egypt, the cutting of the, vi. 31 _sq._, 37 _sq._, 39 _sq._

Damun, in German New Guinea, ceremony of initiation at, xi. 193

Danae, the story of, her impregnation by Zeus, x. 73 _sq._

Danakils or Afars of East Africa, their belief as to the rebirth of souls of magicians, iv. 200

Danaus and the suitors of his daughters, ii. 301

Dance at giving of oracles, i. 379; executed as tribute by a human god, i. 394; of milkmaids on May-day, ii. 52; to propitiate souls of slain foes, iii. 166; of women on return of warriors, iii. 170; at driving ghost into grave, iii. 373, 374; of youths and maidens at Cnossus, iv. 75 _sq._; of eunuchs in Corea, v. 270 _n._ 2; of eunuchs at new moon, on the Congo, v. 271 _n._; of hermaphrodites in Pegu, v. 271 _n._; at harvest supper, vii. 134, 135, 145; of harvesters with or round the last sheaf, vii. 135, 141, 145, 160, 219, 220, 294, 297; of masked men before sowing, vii. 186; of Dyaks to secure soul of rice, vii. 188 _sq._; of old women as representatives of the corn-goddess, vii. 205; Pawnee, before human sacrifice, vii. 238; round skulls of human victims, vii. 241, 242; round oak and goat-skin at harvest, vii. 288; of executioners, viii. 63; of Zulu king, viii. 66, 68, 69 _n._ 3; of Pondo chief at festival of new fruits, viii. 67; before the king at ceremony of first-fruits, viii. 70 _sq._; of medicine-man, viii. 72; at harvest festival of Indians of Alabama, viii. 72 _n._ 2; of warriors at festival of first-fruits, viii. 74 _sq._, 79; of men and women, by torchlight, at festival of first-fruits, viii. 79; of Dacota warriors, viii. 145; of Caffre girls after mock funeral of caterpillars, viii. 280; at the burial of the wren, viii. 319; on Twelfth Day, viii. 321; of mummers at Carnival, viii. 333, 334; of mummer wearing a horse-headed mask, viii. 338; at cairns, ix. 29; to ensure a supply of buffaloes, ix. 171; to cause the grass to grow, ix. 238; by men carrying a box and axes at Sipi in Northern India, x. 12; of young women at puberty, xi. 183; in the grave at initiation, xi. 237; in honour of the big or grey wolf, xi. 276 _n._ 2. _See also_ Dances

“Dance, the Angel,” viii. 328

——, Ariadne’s, iv. 77

——, the Green Corn, viii. 76

—— of King, iii. 123; before the ghosts of his ancestor, vi. 192

——, the rattle-snake, to ensure immunity from snake-bites, i. 358

——, sacred, at the Sed festival, vi. 154

Dancers personate spirits, ix. 375

Dances, for rain, i. 250, 255, 268, 273, 274, 284, 284 n., iii. 154, iv. 32, 62, ix. 236 _sq._, 238; for wind, i. 321; as means of inspiration, i. 408 _n._ 1; round sacred trees, ii. 47, 55; at harvest, ii. 48; round the May-pole, ii. 65, 67, 69, 74 _sq._; round bonfires on the Eve of St. John (Midsummer Eve), ii. 65; performed by parents of twins to fertilize gardens, ii. 102; for a good harvest, ii. 106; on graves, ii. 183 _n._ 2; round an oak, ii. 371; of manslayers, iii. 168; of victory, iii. 169, 170, 178, 182; at sowing, vii. 95, ix. 234 _sqq._; at human sacrifices, vii. 246, 247; at the reappearance of the Pleiades, vii. 307, 309, 311, 312, 317; in imitation of totemic animals, viii. 76; and processions in connexion with offerings of first-fruits, viii. 111, 113, 115, 116, 126, 131, 134; of men personifying deities, viii. 179; round dead tigers, viii. 216; of the Koryak at the slaughter of bears or wolves, viii. 223; in honour of slain leopards, viii. 228; to amuse the souls of dead sea-beasts, viii. 248; of the Karoks for salmon, viii. 255; to make the crops thrive, viii. 326, 328, 330 _sq._, ix. 232 _sqq._, 347; of mummers on Plough Monday, viii. 329 _sqq._; at cairns, ix. 26, 29; Etruscan, in time of plague at Rome, ix. 65; at harvest, ix. 134; at the expulsion of demons, ix. 139; of the witches, ix. 162; with burning besoms on fields to drive away witches, ix. 163; of women at expulsion of demons, ix. 200; of the Salii, ix. 232, 233; of the Tarahumare Indians of Mexico, ix. 236 _sqq._; taught by animals, ix. 237; solemn Mexican, ix. 279, 285; of Castilian peasants in May, ix. 280; to make hemp grow tall, ix. 315; round bonfires on the Eve of Twelfth Night, ix. 317; in churches at the Festival of Fools, ix. 335, 336; accompanying the Boy Bishop, ix. 338; as dramatic performances of myths, ix. 375 _sqq._; bestowed on men by spirits, ix. 375; in imitation of animals, ix. 376, 377, 381, 382; of fasting men and women at festival, x. 8 _sq._; of Duk-duk society, x. 11; of girls at puberty, x. 28, 29, 30, 37, 42, 50, 58, 59; round bonfires, x. 108, 109, 110, 111, 114, 116, 120, 131, 142, 145, 148, 153 _sq._, 159, 166, 172, 173, 175, 178, 182, 183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 191, 193, 194, 195, 198, 246, xi. 2, 39; of novices at initiation, xi. 258, 259. _See also_ Dance

Dances, masked, of the Kayans at the festival of sowing, vii. 95 _sq._, 111, 186; of the Kaua and Kobeua Indians of Brazil, vii. 111 _sq._; of the Chambioa Indians of Brazil, viii. 208 _n._ 1; at carnival, viii. 333, 334; in ritual, of Demeter and Persephone, viii. 339; of devil-dancers, ix. 38; to promote fertility, ix. 236; of savages, ix. 374 _sqq._; supposed to be derived from guardian spirits, ix. 375 _sqq._; to ensure good crops, ix. 382; bull-roarers used at, xi. 230 _n._

Dances, Mexican, viii. 88; solemn, ix. 280, 284, 286, 287, 288, 289; of salt-makers, ix. 284

——, religious, of dancing girls in India, v. 61, 65; of inspired novices on the Slave Coast, v. 68; at festivals of the dead, vi. 52, 53, 55, 58, 59; at the new moon, vi. 142

—— of Shrovetide Bear, viii. 325 _sq._

—— of women while men are away fighting, i. 131-134; at bear-festival, viii. 185, 186 _sq._, 191, 195; at catching a crocodile, viii. 211; at slaughter of whales, viii. 232 _sq._

Dancing as a fertility charm, i. 137 _sqq._, ii. 106; for salmon, viii. 255; to obtain the favour of the gods, ix. 65, 236; with the fairies at Hallowe’en, x. 227

—— -girls in India, harlots and wives of the gods, v. 61 _sqq._

Dandaki, King, and the ascetic, story of, ix. 41 _sq._

Dandelions gathered at Midsummer, xi. 49

Danes, female descent of the kingship among the, ii. 282 _sq._

Danger of being overshadowed by certain birds or people, iii. 82 _sq._; supposed, of portraits and photographs, iii. 96 _sqq._; supposed to attend contact with divine or sacred persons, such as chiefs and kings, iii. 132 _sqq._, 138; apprehended from women in childbed, iii. 150 _sqq._; thought to attend women at menstruation, x. 94; apprehended from the sexual relation, xi. 277 _sq._

Danger Island, snares set for souls by sorcerers in, iii. 69; the Pleiades worshipped in, vii. 312

Danh-gbi, python-god, on the Slave Coast, v. 66

Danish magic of footprints, i. 211

—— story of a girl who was forbidden to see the sun, x. 70 _sqq._; of the external soul, xi. 120 _sqq._

_Danserosse_ or _danseresse_, a stone in the wood of St. Antony near Epinal, x. 110

Danube, worship of Grannus on the, x. 112

Danzig, disposal of cut hair at, iii. 276 _sq._; the siege of, iii. 279 _n._ 4; the last sheaf at harvest at, vii. 133, 218 _sq._; the immortal lady of, x. 100

_Daphne gnidium_ gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51

Daphnephoria, Greek festival, ii. 63 _n._ 2. _See_ Laurel-bearing

Daphnis and the magic knots, in Virgil, iii. 305

_Daphnis_, play by Sositheus, vii. 217

Dapper, O., on ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in the Belli-Paaro society, xi. 257 _sqq._

Daramulun, a mythical being who instituted and superintends the initiation of lads in Australia, xi. 228, 233, 237; his voice heard in the sound of the bull-roarer, xi. 228. _See also_ Thrumalun _and_ Thuremlin

“Darding Knife,” pretence of death and resurrection at initiation to the, xi. 274 _sq._

Dardistan, custom of swinging in, iv. 279

Dards, their belief that a storm follows the troubling of a spring, i. 301

Darfur, power of extinguishing fire ascribed to chaste women in, ii. 240 _n._ 3; tampering with a man’s shadow in, iii. 81; the sultan of, veils his face, iii. 120; etiquette at the court of the sultans of, iv. 39; the people of, believe the liver to be the seat of the soul, viii. 147 _sq._

Dargle Vale, Whitsuntide custom at, ii. 103 _n._ 3

Darien, the Indians of, concealment of personal names among, iii. 325

Darius, King, would not pass through a gate over which was a tomb, iii. 257

“Dark” moon and “light” moon, ix. 140, 141 _n._ 1

Darling River, funeral custom of tribes on the, i. 90; custom as to extracted teeth among the tribes of the, i. 176; the Karamundi nation on the, i. 257; tributaries of the, iv. 180; the Ualaroi of the, xi. 233

Darma Rajah, Hindoo god, fire-festival in honour of, xi. 6

Darmesteter, James, on the Fravashis, vi. 67 _n._ 2; his theory as to the date of the _Gathas_, vi. 84 _n._

Darowen, in Wales, Midsummer fires at, x. 201

Darwin, Charles, and Empedocles, viii. 306; on the cooling of the sun, xi. 307 _n._ 1

Darwin, Sir Francis, on double-headed bust at Nemi, i. 42 _n._ 1; on _rhamnus_ (buckthorn), ix. 153 _n._ 1; on the Golden Bough, xi. 318, 319 _n._ 3

Dashers of churns, witches ride on, xi. 73 _sq._

_Dâsî_, dancing-girl in India, v. 63

Dasius, St., martyrdom of, ix. 308 _sqq._ _See_ St. Dasius

Dassera festival in Nepaul, iii. 316, ix. 226 _n._ 1; swings and kites at the, iv. 277

Dastarkon in Cappadocia, Cataonian Apollo at, v. 147 _n._ 3

Date of Chinese festival changed, x. 137

Date month when date-palms are artificially fertilized, ii. 25

—— -palm, artificial fertilization of the, ii. 24 _sq._, ix. 272 _sq._

Dates forbidden to worshippers of Cybele and Attis, v. 280

Dathi, king of Ireland, and his Druid, x. 228 _sq._

Daughter of a god, v. 51

—— of a king, succession to kingdom by marriage with a, ii. 271, 277 _sqq._

—— -in-law, her name not to be pronounced, iii. 338; in ritual, viii. 121 _sq._

Daughters of chiefs entrusted with the sacred fire among the Herero, ii. 215, 228

Dauphiné, the Bridegroom of the Month of May in, ii. 93; the harvest Cat in, vii. 280 _sq._

Daura, a Hausa kingdom, sick or infirm kings killed in, iv. 35; custom of succession to the throne in, iv. 201

David, King, his conquest of Ammon, iii. 273, v. 19; and the brazen serpent, iv. 86; in relation to the old kings of Jerusalem, v. 18 _sq._; his taking of a census, v. 24; as a harper, v. 52, 53, 54

—— and Goliath, v. 19 _n._ 2

—— and the King of Moab, iii. 273

—— and Saul, v. 21

Davies, J. Ceredig, as to witches in Wales, x. 321 _n._ 2

Davies, Professor T. Witton, on the date of the Book of Esther, ix. 360 _n._ 2

Davis, Mr. R. F., on harvest custom in Nottinghamshire, v. 238 _n._

Dawkins, R. M., on a carnival custom in Thrace, vii. 25 _n._ 4, 29 _n._ 2

Dawn of the Day, prayers of adolescent girls to the, i. 70, x. 50 _sq._, 53, 98 _n._ 1

——, the rosy, in mythology, i. 334

Dawson, James, on the difference of language between husbands and wives among the aborigines of Victoria, iii. 347 _sq._; on the constellations observed by the aborigines of Victoria, vii. 308; on sex totems in Victoria, xi. 216

Day of Blood in rites of Attis, v. 268, 285

—— of Stones, in Behar and Bengal, i. 279

Days of the Cross in Esthonia, i. 325

De Barros, Portuguese historian, on the custom of killing kings at Passier, iv. 51

De Goeje, M. J., on the rite of stone-throwing at Mecca, ix. 24 _n._ 1

De Groot, J. J. M., on the authority of the Chinese emperors, i. 416 _sq._; on the Chinese belief in tree-spirits, ii. 14; on the Chinese theory of names, iii. 390

De Mortival, Roger, on the Boy Bishop at Salisbury, ix. 338

D’Orbigny, A., on the division of labour between the sexes among the South American Indians, vii. 120

De Plano Carpini, on the funeral customs of the Mongols, v. 293

De Ricci, S., on the Celtic month Equos, ix. 343 _n._

De Smet, J., on the sacrifice of a Sioux girl, vii. 239 _n._ 1

Dea Dia, a Roman goddess of fertility, vi. 239

Dead, hair offered to the, i. 31; pretence of new birth at return of supposed dead man, i. 75; belief of the Central Australian aborigines in the reincarnation of the,