vii. 66, 69;

her ancient worship in Crete, vii. 131; in relation to the pig, viii. 16 _sqq._; horse-headed, of Phigalia, viii. 21, 338; said to have eaten the shoulder of Pelops, viii. 263; rustic prototype of, viii. 334; her mourning for Persephone, ix. 349; the torches of, x. 340 _n._ 1; serpents in the worship of, xi. 44 _n._

Demeter, Black, vii. 263; of Phigalia, viii. 21

—— the Corn Goddess, vii. 41 _sqq._, 56 _sqq._, 63 _sqq._, 77 _sq._

—— the Corn Mother, vii. 53, 58 _sq._, 75, 131, 184, viii. 334

—— and ears of corn, v. 166

——, Eleusinian, at Ephesus, i. 47

——, Green, vii. 42, 63, 89 _n._ 2, 263

—— and Iasion, vii. 208

—— and the king’s son at Eleusis, v. 180

—— and Persephone, vii. 35 _sqq._; their myth acted in the mysteries of Eleusis, vii. 39, 187 _sq._; resemblance of their artistic types, vii. 67 _sq._; their essential identity, vii. 90; associated with death and immortality, vii. 90 _sq._; double personification of the corn as, vii. 208 _sqq._; masked dance in rites of, viii. 339; represented by maskers wearing the heads of animals, viii. 339

—— and Poseidon, v. 280

—— and the snake of Cychreus, iv. 87 _n._ 5

——, Yellow, vii. 41 _sq._

—— and Zeus, viii. 9; their marriage at Eleusis, ii. 138 _sq._, vii. 65 _sqq._

Demeter’s corn, vii. 42

Demetrius Poliorcetes deified at Athens, i. 390 _sq._

Demnat, in the Atlas, New Year rites at, x. 217, 218

Democracy to despotism, social revolution from, i. 371

Democritus, on the generation of serpents, viii. 146; on a cure for scorpion bite, ix. 50 _n._ 1

Demon supposed to attack girls at puberty, x. 67 _sq._; festival of fire instituted to ban a, xi. 3. _See_ Demons

Demon-worship, ix. 94, 96. _See also_ Propitiation

Demonophobia in India, ix. 91

Demons, communion with, by drinking blood, i. 383; of trees, ii. 33 _sq._, 35, 42; abduction of souls by, iii. 58 _sqq._; of disease expelled by pungent spices, pricks, and cuts, iii. 105 _sq._; coco-nut oil a protection against, iii. 201; infants exposed to the attacks of, iii. 235; deceived by substitution of effigies for living persons, viii. 96 _sq._; of disease exorcized by masked devil-dancers, ix. 38; bunged up, ix. 61 _sq._; omnipresence of, ix. 72 _sqq._; thought to cause sickness and disease, famine, etc., ix. 92, 94, 95, 100, 102, 103, 109 _sqq._; propitiation of, ix. 93, 94, 96, 100; religious purification intended to ward off, ix. 104; public expulsion of, ix. 109 _sqq._; of cholera, ix. 116, 117, 123; men disguised as, ix. 170 _sq._, 172, 173, 213, 214, 235; conjured into images, ix. 171, 172, 173, 203, 204, 205; decoyed by a pig, ix. 200, 201; put to flight by clangour of metal, ix. 233; banned by masks, ix. 246; exorcized by bells, ix. 246 _sq._, 251; attack women at puberty and childbirth, x. 24 _n._ 2; expelled at the New Year, x. 134 _sq._; abroad on Midsummer Eve, x. 172; ashes of holy fires a protection against, xi. 8, 17; vervain a protection against, xi. 62; guard treasures, xi. 65. _See also_ Devil, Devils, _and_ Evil Spirits

Demons or ghosts averse to iron, iii. 232 _sqq._; deceived by dummies, viii. 96 _sqq._; repelled by gun-shots, viii. 99

Denderah or Dendereh, inscriptions at, vi. 11, 86 _sqq._, 89, 91, 130 _n._; the hall of Osiris at, vi. 110; sculptures at, vii. 260

_Dendit_ or _Dengdit_, “Great Rain,” the Supreme Being of the Dinkas, iv. 30, 32, viii. 40 _n._, 114 _n._ 2

Déné or Tinneh Indians, their dread and seclusion of menstruous women, x. 91 _sqq._; the Western, tattooing among the, x. 98 _n._ 1 _See also_ Tinneh

_Denham Tracts_, on need-fire in Yorkshire, x. 287 _sq._

Denmark, precautions against witchcraft on Walpurgis Night in, ii. 54; Whitsun bride in, ii. 91 _sq._; oaks in the peat-bogs of, ii. 351; the beechwoods of, ii. 351; the Bronze Age in, ii. 351, 352; the Iron Age in, ii. 352; the Stone Age in, ii. 352; the last sheaf at harvest in, vii. 139 _sq._, 231; the Yule Boar in, vii. 300 _sq._; fires on St. John’s Eve in, x. 171; passing sick children through a hole in the ground in, x. 190, 191; children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets in,