i. 344;

regalia employed as instruments of, i. 363; various modes of, on May morning to discover who should be married first, ii. 67 _sq._; by flowers, ii. 345; by wells, ii. 345; as to love on St. George’s Day among the Slavs, ii. 345 _sq._; by crystals, iii. 56; by shoulder-blades, iii. 229, viii. 234; by knotted threads, iii. 304 _n._ 5; to determine the ancestor who is reborn in a child, iii. 368 _sq._; by tree and water at Delphi, iv. 80; at Midsummer, v. 252 _sq._, x. 208 _sq._; magic dwindles into, vii. 110 _n._, x. 336; by crocodile-hunter, viii. 210; on Christmas Day, ix. 316 _n._ 1; on Twelfth Night, ix. 316; on St. John’s Night (Midsummer Eve), x. 173, xi. 46 _n._ 3, 50, 52 _sqq._, 61, 64, 67 _sqq._; at Hallowe’en, x. 225, 228 _sqq._; by stones at Hallowe’en fires, x. 230 _sq._, 239, 240; by stolen kail, x. 234 _sq._, 241; by clue of yarn, x. 235, 240, 241, 243; by hemp seed, x. 235, 241, 245; by winnowing-basket, x. 236; by thrown shoe, x. 236; by wet shirt, x. 236, 241; by white of eggs, x. 236 _sq._, 238; by apples in water, x. 237; by a ring, x. 237; by names on chimney-piece, x. 237; by three plates or basins, x. 237 _sq._, 240, 244; by nuts in fire, x. 237, 239, 241, 242, 245; by salt cake, or salt herring, x. 238 _sq._; by a sliced apple, x. 238; by eavesdropping, x. 238, 243, 244; by knife, x. 241; by briar-thorn, x. 242; by melted lead, x. 242; by cabbages, x. 242; by cake at Hallowe’en, x. 242, 243; by ashes, x. 243, 244, 245; by salt, x. 244; by raking a rick, x. 247. _See also_ Divining-rod

Divine animal, killing the, viii. 169 _sqq._

—— animals as scapegoats, ix. 216 _sq._, 226 _sq._

“—— consort, the,” ii. 131

—— king, the killing of the, iv. 9 _sqq._

—— kings of the Shilluk, iv. 17 _sqq._

—— men as scapegoats, ix. 217 _sqq._, 226 _sq._

Divine personages not allowed to touch the ground with their feet, x. 2 _sqq._; not allowed to see the sun, x. 18 _sqq._; suspended for safety between heaven and earth, x. 98 _sq._

—— spirit incarnate in Shilluk kings, iv. 21, 26 _sq._

Diviners, ancient, their rules of diet, viii. 143

Divining bones, vi. 180, 181

—— -rod cut on Midsummer Eve, xi. 67 _sqq._; made of hazel, xi. 67 _sq._, 291 _n._ 3; made of mistletoe in Sweden, xi. 69, 291; made of four sorts of wood, xi. 69; made of willow, xi. 69 _n._; made out of a parasitic rowan, xi. 281 _sq._

Divinities, human, bound by many rules, iii. 419 _sq._; of the volcano Kirauea, v. 217

Divinity of the Brahmans, i. 403 _sq._

—— of chief supposed to reside in his eyes, viii. 153

—— claimed by Fijian chiefs, i. 389

—— of kings, i. 48 _sqq._, 372; in the Pacific, i. 386 _sqq._; in Africa, i. 392 _sq._, 396; among the Hovas, i. 397; among the Sakkalava, i. 397 _sq._; among the Malays, i. 398; in India, i. 403; in great historical empires, i. 415 _sqq._; growth of the conception of the, ii. 376 _sqq._; among the Semites, v. 15 _sqq._; among the Lydians, v. 182 _sqq._

Divisibility of life, doctrine of the, xi. 221

Division of labour in relation to social progress, i. 420; between the sexes, vii. 129

Divorce of spiritual from temporal power, iii. 17 _sqq._

Diwali, Hindoo feast of lamps, ii. 160, ix. 145

Dix Cove, in Guinea, crocodiles sacred at, viii. 287

Dixmude, in Belgium, feast of All Souls at, vi. 70

Dixon, Roland B., on the importance of shamans among the Maidu, i. 357

Dixon, Dr. W. E., on hemlock as an anaphrodisiac, ii. 139 _n._ 1

Djakuns of the Malay Peninsula, their mode of making fire, ii. 236

Djuldjul, girl dressed in leaves and flowers at rain-making ceremony, i. 274

Dobischwald, in Silesia, custom at threshing at, vii. 148; need-fire at, x. 278

Dobrizhoffer, Father M., on the reluctance of the Abipones to utter their own names, iii. 328; on changes of language among the Abipones, iii. 360; on the respect of the Abipones for the Pleiades, v. 258 _n._ 2

Doctrine of lunar sympathy, vi. 140 _sqq._

_Dôd_, “beloved,” v. 19 _n._ 2, 20 _n._ 2

Dodge, Colonel R. I., on exorcism of strangers among North American Indians, iii. 105; on the death of the Great Spirit, iv. 3

Dodola, girl clad in grass and herbs at rain-making ceremony, i. 273

Dodona, oracular spring at, ii. 172; Zeus at, ii. 177; Zeus and Dione at, ii. 189; bronze gongs at, ii. 358 _sq._; Zeus and his oracular oak at, ii. 358, xi. 89 _sq._

Dodwell, E., on image of Demeter at Eleusis, vii. 64

Dog, sacrificed to war-god, i. 173; used in rain-making, i. 302; used in stopping rain, i. 303; sacrificed to tree-spirit, ii. 36; sacrificed on roof of new house, ii. 39; prohibition to touch or name, iii. 13; killed instead of king, iv. 17; corn-spirit as, vii. 271 _sqq._; of the harvest, vii. 273; feast on flesh of, viii. 256; Iroquois sacrifice of white, viii. 258 _n._ 1, ix. 127, 209; transmigration of sinner into, viii. 299; sickness transferred to, ix. 33; cough transferred to, ix. 51; fever transferred to, ix. 51; sacrifice of, in time of smallpox, ix. 121; as scapegoat, ix. 209 _sq._; not allowed to enter priest’s house, x. 4; beaten to ensure woman’s fertility, x. 69; charm against the bite of a mad, xi. 56; a Batta totem, xi. 223. _See also_ Dogs

——, black, sacrificed for rain, i. 291; used to stop rain, i. 303

——, white, sacrifice of, viii. 258 _n._ 2, ix. 127, 209

Dog-demon of epilepsy, ix. 69 _n._

—— -eating Spirit, vii. 21

Dog Star, red-haired puppies sacrificed to the, vii. 261; supposed to blight the crops, vii. 261; supposed by the ancients to cause the heat of summer, x. 332. _See_ Sirius

Dog’s ghost feared by women, viii. 232 _n._ 1

Dogrib Indians will not taste blood, iii. 241; do not pare nails of female children, iii. 263

Dogs crowned, i. 14, ii. 125 _sq._, 127 _sq._; sacrificed at the marriage of Sun and Earth, ii. 99; witches turn into, ii. 334; sacrificed and hung on trees of sacred grove, ii. 365; bones of game kept from, iii. 206; unclean, iii. 206; tigers called, iii. 402, devoured in religious rites, vii. 19, 20, 21, 22; their flesh or liver eaten to acquire bravery, viii. 145; sacrificed at bear-feasts, viii. 196, 202; not allowed to gnaw bones of slain animals, viii. 225, 238 _sqq._, 243, 259; bones of deer not given to, viii. 241, 242, 243; the resurrection of, viii. 256 _sq._; pairing, fertilizing virtue of stick which has been used to separate, ix. 264 _sq._; imitated by dancers, ix. 382. _See also_ Dog, Hounds

Dolac, need-fire at, x. 286

Doliche in Commagene, Jupiter Dolichenus at, v. 136

Doll made of last corn at harvest, vii. 140, 151, 153, 155, 157, 162. _See also_ Dolls

Dollar-bird associated with rain, i. 287 _sq._

Dolls or puppets employed for the restoration of souls to their bodies, iii. 53 _sqq._, 62 _sq._ _See also_ Doll, Puppets

Dolmen, sick children passed through a hole in a, xi, 188

Domalde, a Swedish king, sacrificed for good seasons, i. 366 _sq._

Domaszewski, Professor A., on the rites of Attis at Rome, v. 266 _n._ 2

_Dominica rosae_, the fourth Sunday in Lent, iv. 222 _n._ 1

Domitian and the oak crown, ii. 177 _n._

Dommartin, Lenten fires at, x. 109

Domovoy, Russian house-spirit, ii. 233 _n._ 1

Doms of India, their primitive beliefs, ii. 288 _n._ 1

_Don Quixote_, as to edible acorns, ii. 356

“Donald of the Ear,” magic effigy of, i. 69

Donar or Thunar, the German thunder god, the oak of, ii. 364

Door, the words for, in Aryan languages, ii. 384; of house protected against fiends, viii. 96; certain fish and portions of animals not to be brought into house through the, viii. 189 _sq._, 193, 196, 242 _sq._, 256; separate, for girls at puberty, x. 43, 44. _See also_ Doors

Doorie, hill of, at Burghead, x. 267

Doorposts, blood of sacrificial victims smeared on, iii. 15, iv. 97, 175, 176 _n._ 1

Doors, Janus as a god of, ii. 383 _sq._; opened to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296, 297; opened to facilitate death, iii. 309; separate, used by menstruous women, x. 84

Doorway, to stand or loiter in the, forbidden under certain circumstances,