iv. 235

Debt of civilization to savagery, iii. 421 _sq._

Deccan, the Gaolis of the, vii. 7

Deceiving the spirits of plants and trees, ii. 22 _sqq._; demons and ghosts by substituting effigies for living persons, viii. 94 _sqq._

December, the Saturnalia held in, ii. 311 _n._ 4, ix. 306, 307, 345; the twenty-fifth of, reckoned the winter solstice and the birthday of the Sun, v. 303 _sqq._; annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 145; custom of the heathen of Harran in, ix. 263 _sq._; the last day of, Hogmanay, x. 266; the twenty-first, St. Thomas’s Day, x. 266

Decle, L., on heaps of sticks or stones to which passers-by add, ix. 11 _n._ 1; on a custom of the kings of Uganda, x. 4 _n._ 1

Decline of magic with the growth of religion, i. 374

—— of the civic virtues under the influence of Oriental religions, v. 300 _sq._

_Ded_ or _tet_ pillar, the backbone of Osiris, vi. 108 _sq._

Dedication of girls to the service of a temple, v. 61 _sqq._; of men and women in Africa, v. 65 _sqq._; of children to gods, v. 79

Dee, river in Aberdeenshire, holed stone in the, used by childless women, v. 36 _n._ 4, xi. 187

_Deega_ marriage, ii. 271 _n._ 1

Deer, magic to attract, i. 109; rule as to hamstringing, i. 115; taboos observed during the hunting of, i. 122; imitation of, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155 _sq._; descent of Kalamants from a, iv. 126 _sq._; sacrificed instead of human beings, iv. 166 _n._ 1; flesh of, eaten to prolong life or to avoid fever, viii. 143; not eaten by warriors, viii. 144; treated with respect by American Indians, viii. 240 _sqq._; their bones not given to dogs, viii. 241, 242, 243; Indian custom of cutting out the sinew of the thighs of, viii. 264 _sqq._; souls of dead in, viii. 286, 293 _sq._

—— and the family of Lachlin, superstition concerning, xi. 284

Deer clan among the Moquis, viii. 178

—— -hoofs in homoeopathic magic, i. 155; used to keep out ghosts, ix. 154 _n._

Deffingen, in Swabia, Midsummer bonfires at, x. 166 _sq._

Defiled hands, iii. 174. _See_ Hands

—— persons not allowed to look at corn, ii. 112

Defoe, Daniel, on the Angel of the Plague, v. 24 _n._ 2

Dehon, P., on witches as cats among the Oraons, xi. 312

Deification of deceased mandarins, i. 415

Deified men, sacrifices of, ix. 409

Deir el Bahari, paintings at, ii. 131, 133

_Deiseal_, _deiseil_, _deisheal_, _dessil_, according to the course of the sun, viii. 323, 324; the right-hand turn, in the Highlands of Scotland, x. 150 _n._ 1, 154

Deities duplicated through dialectical differences in their names, ii. 380 _sq._ _See_ Gods

—— of vegetation as animals, viii. 1 _sqq._

Deity, savage conception of, different from ours, i. 375 _sq._; communion with, viii. 325

Dejanira wooed by the river Achelous, ii. 161 _sq._

Delagoa Bay, the Baronga of, i. 152, 267 _sq._, vii. 114, viii. 280; the Thonga of, x. 29

Delaware Indians, their respect for rattlesnakes, viii. 218; their remedies for sins, ix. 263; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 54

Delbrück, B., on mother-kin among the Aryans, ii. 283 _n._ 5

Delena, in British New Guinea, evil magic at, i. 213

Delia, festival at Delos, i. 32 _n._ 2

Delian virgins and youths before marriage offer their hair on the grave of dead maidens, i. 28

Delirium, supposed cause of, iii. 83

Delivery, easy, granted to women by Diana, i. 12; by trees, ii. 57 _sq._; charms to ensure women an, x. 49, 50 _sq._, 52; women creep through a rifted rock to obtain an, xi. 189

Delmenhorst, in Oldenburg, Easter fires at, x. 142

Delos, graves of Hyperborean maidens in, i. 28, 33 _sqq._; Apollo and Artemis at, i. 28, 32-35; new fire brought from, i. 32, x. 138; the temple at, not to be entered after drinking wine, iii. 249 _n._ 2; Theseus at, iv. 75; sacred embassy to, vi. 244; the calendar of, viii. 6 _n._; the Thesmophoria in, viii. 17 _n._ 2

Delphi, Apollo at, i. 28; new fire sent from, i. 32 _sq._; gold and silver offerings at, i. 32 _n._ 1; the common hearth at, i. 33; grave of Apollo at, i. 34; ceremony performed by the king at, i. 45 _sq._; slaughter of the python by Apollo at, iii. 223 _n._ 1; tombs of Dionysus and Apollo at, iv. 3 _sq._, vii. 14; festival of Crowning at, iv. 78 _sqq._; sacred oak at, iv. 80 _sq._; Apollo and the Dragon at, vi. 240; perpetual fire at, xi. 91 _n._ 7; the picture of Orpheus at, xi. 294; Stheni, near, xi. 317

Delphic oracle, as to sacrifices to murdered Phocaeans, iv. 95; on the cause of dearth, iv. 162; as to first-fruits offered at Eleusis, vii. 55, 60; on Athens as “the Metropolis of the Corn,” vii. 58

_Delphinium Ajacis_, the flower of Ajax, v. 314 _n._ 1

_Delubrum_, ancient explanation of the word, viii. 186 _n._

Demeter, her sacred caverns, v. 88; sacred vaults of, v. 278; sorrowing for the descent of the Maiden, vi. 41; the month of, vi. 41; mysteries of, at Eleusis, vi. 90; at the well, vi. 111 _n._ 6; identified with Isis, vi. 117; mother of Dionysus by Zeus, vii. 14, 66; Homeric Hymn to, vii. 35 _sqq._, 70; her search for Persephone, vii. 36, 57; institutes the Eleusinian mysteries, vii. 37; a personification of the corn, vii. 39, 40 _sq._; etymology of her name, vii. 40 _n._ 3, 131; distinguished from the Earth-goddess, vii. 41, 43, 89; associated with the threshing-floor, vii. 41 _sq._, 43, 47, 61 _sq._, 63, 64 _sq._; in art, vii. 43 _sq._, 67 _sq._, 88 _sq._; offerings of first-fruits to, vii. 46 _sqq._; surnamed Proerosia, vii. 51; bestows corn on the Athenians and the Sicilians, vii. 54, 56 _sq._; worshipped in Sicily, vii. 56 _sqq._; sacrifices to her at sowing, vii. 57; associated with seed-corn, vii. 58, 90; her epithets, vii. 63 _sq._; her image at Eleusis, vii. 64; her intrigue with Zeus, vii. 66; her love-adventure in the furrows of a thrice-ploughed fallow-field,