i. 114;

creeping through narrow opening in, as a cure, xi. 181 _sq._

Dorasques of Panama, their theory of earthquakes, v. 201

Dordrecht, “dew-treading” at Whitsuntide at, ii. 104 _n._ 2

Doreh in Dutch New Guinea, ghosts of the murdered driven away at, iii. 170; the tug-of-war at, ix. 178

Doreh Bay in Dutch New Guinea, i. 125, iv. 288

Dorians, their superstition as to meteors, iv. 59

Dormice, charm against, viii. 281

Dorpat, rain-making at, i. 248

Dos Santos, J., on the divinity of African kings, i. 392; on the method adopted by a Caffre king to prolong his life, vi. 222 _sq._

Dosadhs, an Indian caste, the fire-walk among the, xi. 5

Dosuma, king of, not allowed to touch the ground, x. 3

Douay, procession of the giants at, xi. 33 _sq._

Double, the afterbirth or placenta, regarded as a person’s double, vi. 169 _sq._

Double-axe, Midsummer king of the, x. 194

—— -headed axe, symbol of Sandan, v. 127; carried by Lydian kings, v. 182; a palladium of the Heraclid sovereignty, v. 182; figured on coins, v. 183 _n._

—— -headed bust at Nemi, i. 41 _sq._

—— -headed eagle, Hittite emblem, v. 133 _n._

—— -headed fetish among the Bush negroes of Surinam, ii. 385

—— -headed Janus, explanation of, ii. 384 _sq._

—— -personification of the corn as male and female, vii. 163 _sq._; of the corn in female form as old and young, vii. 164 _sqq._, 209 _sq._; of the corn as mother and daughter, vii. 207 _sqq._

Doubles, spiritual, of men and animals, in ancient Egypt, iii. 28 _sq._

Doubs, Montagne de, bonfires on the Eve of Twelfth Night in the, ix. 316

Dough image of god eaten sacramentally, viii. 86 _sqq._, 90 _sq._

—— images of animals sacrificed instead of the animals, viii. 95 _n._ 2

—— puppets as substitutes for live human beings, viii. 101 _sq._

Douglas, Alexander, victim of witchcraft, ix. 39

Dourgne, in Southern France, crawling through holed stones near, xi. 187 _sq._

Doutté, Edmond, on the invocation of jinn by their names, iii. 390; on sacred prostitution in Morocco, v. 39 _n._ 3; on the blessed influence (_baraka_), of Mohammedan saints, ix. 22

Dove, the ceremony of the fiery, at Easter in Florence, x. 126; a Batta totem, xi. 223

Doves burnt in honour of Adonis, v. 126 _n._ 2, 147; external soul of magicians in, xi. 104; Aeneas led by doves to the Golden Bough, xi. 285, 316 _n._ 1

Doves, sacred, of Aphrodite, v. 33; of Astarte, v. 147, ix. 370 _n._ 1

Down, County, “Winning the Churn” at harvest in, vii. 154 _sq._

Dowries earned by prostitution, v. 38, 59

_Dracaena terminalis_, in magic, i. 159; its leaves used to beat the sick, ix. 265

Dragon, rain-god represented as, i. 297, 298; or serpent of water, ii. 155 _sqq._; the Slaying of the, at Furth, ii. 163 _sq._; effigy of, carried at Ragusa on St. George’s Day, ii. 164 _n._ 1; drama of the slaughter of the, iv. 78 _sqq._, 89; myth of the slaughter of the, iv. 105 _sqq._; slain by Cadmus at Thebes, vi. 241; at Midsummer, effigy of, xi. 37; external soul of a queen in a, xi. 105; of the water-mill, Servian story of the, xi. iii _sqq._

—— and Apollo, at Delphi, iv. 78 _sqq._, vi. 240

—— of Rouen, destroyed by St. Romain, ii. 164 _sqq._, 167

—— of Tarascon, carried in procession on Whitsunday, ii. 170 _n._ 1

—— and Tiger mountains, palace of the head of Taoism on the, i. 413 _sq._

Dragon-crest of kings, iv. 105

—— divinity of stream prayed to for rain, i. 291 _sq._

—— stone thought to confer sharpness of vision, i. 165 _n._ 6

Dragon’s blood, a protection against witchcraft, ii. 164; knowledge of the language of birds learnt through tasting, viii. 146

Dragons, artificial, in rain-making, i. 297; or serpents personated by kings, iv. 82; driven away by smoke of Midsummer bonfires, x. 161; St. Peter’s fires lighted to drive away, x. 195

—— of water, folk-tales of virgins sacrificed to, ii. 155

Draguignan, in the department of Var, Midsummer fires at, x. 193

Drama, sacred, of the death and resurrection of Osiris, vi. 85 _sq._; modern Thracian, at the Carnival, vii. 25 _sqq._; magical, vii. 187 _sq._

Dramas, magical, to promote vegetation, ii. 120; for the regulation of the seasons, v. 4 _sq._; to ensure good crops, vii. 187 _sq._

——, sacred, as magical rites, ix. 373 _sqq._

Dramatic contests of actors representing Summer and Winter, iv. 254 _sqq._

—— exhibitions sometimes originate in magical rites, ii. 142

Dramatic performance instituted in time of plague to appease the god, ix. 65

—— representation of the resurrection of Osiris in his rites, vi. 85; of the corn-spirit, viii. 325

—— rites practised with magical intention, vii. 1

—— weddings of gods and goddesses, ii. 121

Draupadi or Krishna, the wooing of the princess, ii. 306; the heroine of the _Mahabharata_, xi. 7

Dravidian tribes of Northern India forbid a menstruous woman to touch house-thatch, i. 179 _n._ 1; their cure for epilepsy, ix. 259 _sq._

Drawing on wood or sand forbidden in absence of hunters, i. 122

Dread and seclusion of menstruous women, x. 76 _sqq._; dread of witchcraft in Europe, x. 342

Dream, guardian spirit or animal acquired in a, xi. 256 _sq._

Dreaming on flowers on Midsummer Eve, x. 175. _See_ Dreams

Dreams, modes of counteracting evil, i. 172 _sq._; the telling of, a charm to calm a storm, i. 321; the interpretation of, i. 344; absence of soul in, iii. 36 _sqq._; belief of savages in the reality of, iii. 36 _sq._; omens drawn from, iii. 161, 163, 404, 406; spirits of the dead appear to the living in, iii. 368, 374, vi. 162, 190; revelations in, iv. 25; women visited by a serpent in dreams in a sanctuary of Aesculapius, v. 80; revelations given to sick people by Pluto and Persephone in, v. 205; as causes of attempted transformation of men into women, vi. 255 _sqq._; as a source of belief in immortality, viii. 260 _sq._; and their fulfilment in time of sickness, ix. 121; festival of, among the Iroquois, ix. 127; oracular, x. 238, 242; of love on Midsummer Eve, xi. 52, 54; prophetic, on the bloom of the oak, xi. 292; prophetic, on mistletoe, xi. 293

_Dreikönigstag_, Twelfth Day in Germany and Austria, ix. 329

Drenching of people with water as a rain-charm, i. 250, 251, 269 _sq._, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277 _sq._, ii. 77; of trees as a rain-charm, ii. 47; of leaf-clad mummer as a rain-charm, iv. 211; of last corn cut with water as a rain-charm, v. 237 _sq._

Drinking, modes of, practised by tabooed persons, iii. 117 _sqq._, 120, 143, 146, 147, 148, 160, 182, 183, 185, 189, 197, 198, 256; juices of dead kinsfolk, viii. 163 _n._ 3

Drinking out of a king’s skull in order to be inspired by his spirit, vi. 171

—— and eating, taboos on, iii. 116 _sqq._

_Drischila_, a threshing cake in West Bohemia, vii. 150

Driver, Professor S. R., on the prae-Israelitish inhabitants of Canaan, iv. 170 _n._ 5; on the consecration of the firstling males, iv. 173 _n._ 1

“Driving out the Witches” on Walpurgis Night in Bohemia, ix. 162; on Walpurgis Night in Voigtland, x. 160; at Midsummer in Switzerland, x. 170, 171

Drobede (Draupadi), the heroine of the epic _Mahabharata_, xi. 7

Drömling, in Brunswick, dramatic contest between Summer and Winter at, iv. 257

Drömling district, in Hanover, need-fire in, x. 277

Drops of water in homoeopathic magic, i. 173

Dropsy, ancient Greek mode of preventing, i. 78; ceremony to prevent, in India, i. 79

Drought, funeral of, a rain-making ceremony, i. 274; supposed to be caused by unburied dead, i. 287; violence done to the rain-powers in time of, i. 296 _sqq._; magical ceremony for causing, i. 313; and dearth, chiefs and kings punished for, i. 352 _sqq._; rain-makers killed in time of, ii. 2, 3; supposed to be caused by sexual crime, ii. 110, 111, 113; supposed to be caused by a concealed miscarriage, iii. 153 _sq._; kings answerable for, v. 21 _sq._; attributed to misconduct of young girls, x. 31

Drowned, souls of the, thought to pass into trees, animals, or fish, ii. 30; in holy spring, the sacred bull Apis, viii. 36

Drowning as a punishment for sexual crimes, ii. 109, 110, 111; sacrifice by, ii. 364; as a mode of executing royal criminals, iii. 242, 243

Drowning girls in rivers as sacrifices, ii. 151 _sq._

—— human victims as sacrifices to water-spirits, ii. 157 _sqq._

_Drowo_, gods, in the language of the Ewe-speaking peoples of West Africa, ix. 74

Druid, purification performed by an Irish, ii. 116; etymology of the word, x. 76 _n._ 1

Druid’s Glass, certain beads called the, x. 16; prediction, the, x. 229

Druidical festivals, so-called, of the Scotch Highlanders, x. 147, 206; custom of burning live animals, xi. 38; the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, xi. 41 _sq._, 43 _sq._

Druidical sacrifices, W. Mannhardt’s theory of the, xi. 43

Druidism, so-called, remains of, x. 233, 241; and the Christian Church in relation to witchcraft, xi. 42

Druids, Lucan on the, i. 2 _n._ 1; oak and mistletoe worshipped by the, ii. 9, 358, 362, xi. 76 _sq._, 301; female, ii. 241 _n._ 1; derivation of the name, ii. 363; the Irish, ii. 363; their superstition as to “serpents’ eggs,” x. 15; their human sacrifices, xi. 32 _sq._; in relation to the Midsummer festival, xi. 33 _sqq._, 45; their cycle of thirty years, xi. 77; catch the mistletoe in a white cloth, xi. 293

—— of Gaul, their sacrifices of white bulls, ii. 189

—— of Ireland, their custom of driving cattle between two fires at Beltane (May Day), x. 157

Druids’ Hill, the, in County Sligo, x. 229

Drum, eating out of a, as a sacrament in the rites of Attis, v. 274

Drumconrath, near Abbeyleix, in Ireland, cut hair kept against the Day of Judgment at, iii. 280 _sq._

Drums, homoeopathic magic at the making of, i. 134 _sq._; beaten as a charm against a storm, i. 328; human sacrifice for royal, vi. 223, 225; beaten to expel demons, ix. 111, 113, 116, 118, 120, 126, 146, 204

Drunkard, corpse of, in rain-charm, i. 285

Dry food eaten, on principle of homoeopathic magic, i. 114, 144; food to be eaten by rain-doctor when he wishes to avert rain, i. 271

Dryas, killed by his father King Lycurgus, vii. 24

—— and Clitus, their contest for a bride, ii. 307

Drynemetum, “the temple of the oak,” in Galatia, ii. 363, xi. 89

Du Chaillu, P. B., the Ashira dispute for the clippings of his hair, iii. 271 _sq._

Du Pratz, Le Page, on the fire-temples of the Natchez, ii. 263; on the festival of the new corn among the Natchez Indians, viii. 77 _sqq._

Duala tribe of the Cameroons, their story of the type of Beauty and the Beast, iv. 130 _n._ 1

Duals, a tribe of Garos, their harvest festival, viii. 337

Dublin, Whitsuntide custom near, ii. 103; custom on May Day at, ii. 141 _sq._

Dubrajpur, in Bengal, rain-making at, i. 278

Dubrowitschi, a Russian village, expulsion of spirit of plague at, ix. 173

Duchesne, Mgr. L., on the origin of Christmas, v. 305 _n._ 4; on the date of the Crucifixion, v. 307

Duck, gripes transferred to a, ix. 50; baked alive as a sacrifice in Suffolk, x. 304

Duck’s egg, external soul in a, xi. 109 _sq._, 115 _sq._, 116, 119 _sq._, 120, 126, 130, 132

Ducks and frogs imitated in rain-making, i. 255

—— and ptarmigan, dramatic contest of the, iv. 259

Dudilaa, a spirit who lives in the sun, flesh of pig offered to, ix. 186

Dudulé, boy decked with ferns and flowers at rain-making ceremony, i. 274

Dugong, magical models of, i. 108; skulls and bones of, preserved, viii. 258 _n._ 2

Dugong fishing, taboos in connexion with, iii. 192

Duk-duk, a disguised man representing a cassowary, xi. 247

Duk-duk, secret society of New Britain, New Ireland, and Duke of York Island, x. 11, xi. 246 _sq._

Duke Town, on the Calabar River, crocodile animated by soul of chief at,