ii. 189

Czechs cull simples at Midsummer, ii. 49

Dacotas or Sioux, ritual of death and resurrection among the, ii. 268 _sq._

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

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

Daizan, king of Atrae, i. 83

Dalhousie Castle, the Edgewell Tree at, ii. 166

Dalmatia, the Yule log in, i. 263

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

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

Danae, the story of, i. 73 _sq._

Dance at Sipi in Northern India, i. 12; of young women at puberty, ii. 183; in the grave at initiation, 237; in honour of the big or grey wolf, 276 _n._ 2

Dances of fasting men and women at festival, i. 8 _sq._; of Duk-duk society, 11; of girls at puberty, 28, 29, 30, 37, 42, 50, 58, 59; round bonfires, 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, ii. 2, 39; masked, bull-roarers used at, 230 _n._; of novices at initiation, 258, 259

Dancing with the fairies at Hallowe’en, i. 227

Dandelions gathered at Midsummer, ii. 49

Danger apprehended from the sexual relation, ii. 277 _sq._

Dangers thought to attend women at menstruation, i. 94

Danish stories of the external soul, ii. 120 _sqq._

—— story of a girl who was forbidden to see the sun, i. 70 _sqq._

_Danserosse_ or _danseresse_, a stone, i. 110

Danube, worship of Grannus on the, i. 112

Danzig, the immortal lady of, i. 100

_Daphne gnidium_ gathered at Midsummer, ii. 51

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

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

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

Darling River, the Ualaroi of the, ii. 233

Darma Rajah, Hindoo god, ii. 6

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

Darwin, Charles, on the cooling of the sun, ii. 307

Darwin, Sir Francis, on the Golden Bough, ii. 318, 319 _n._ 3

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

Date of Chinese festival changed, i. 137

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

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

Dawn of the Day, prayers to the, i. 50 _sq._, 53; prayer of adolescent girl to the, 98 _n._ 1

Dawson, James, on sex totems in Victoria, ii. 216

Dead, festival of the, i. 223 _sq._, 225 _sq._; souls of the, sit round the Midsummer fire, 183, 184; sacrifice of reindeer to the, ii. 178; incarnate in serpents, 211 _sq._; bull-roarers sounded at festivals of the, 230 _n._; first-fruits offered to the souls of the, 243

“Death, carrying out,” i. 119; “the burying of,” 119; effigies of, burnt in spring fires, ii. 21 _sq._; omens of, 54, 64; customs observed by mourners after a death in order to escape from the ghost, 174 _sqq._; identified with the sun, 174 _n._ 1

Death and resurrection, ritual of, ii. 225 _sqq._; in Australia, 227 _sqq._; in New Guinea, 239 _sqq._; in Fiji, 243 _sqq._; in Rook, 246; in New Britain, 246 _sq._; in Ceram, 249 _sqq._; in Africa, 251 _sqq._; in North America, 266 _sqq._; traces of it elsewhere, 276 _sq._

_Debregeasia velutina_, used to kindle fire by friction, ii. 8

December, the last day of, Hogmanay, i. 266; the twenty-first, St. Thomas’s Day, 266

Decle, L., quoted, i. 4 _n._ 1

Dee, holed stone used by childless women in the Aberdeenshire, ii. 187

Deer and the family of Lachlin, superstition concerning, ii. 284

Deffingin, in Swabia, Midsummer bonfires at, i. 166 _sq._

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

_Deiseal_, _deisheal_, _dessil_, the right-hand turn, in the Highlands of Scotland, i. 150 _n._ 1, 154

Delagoa Bay, the Thonga of, i. 29

Delaware Indians, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 54

Delivery, charms to ensure women an easy, i. 49, 50 _sq._, 52; women creep through a rifted rock to obtain an easy, ii. 189

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

Delos, new fire brought from, i. 136

Delphi, perpetual fire at, ii. 91 _n._ 7; the picture of Orpheus at, 294; Stheni, near, 317

Demeter, the torches of, i. 340 _n._ 1; serpents in the worship of, ii. 44 _n._

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

Demon supposed to attack girls at puberty, i. 67 _sq._; festival of fire instituted to ban a, ii. 3

Demons attack women at puberty and childbirth, i. 24 _n._ 2; expelled at the New Year, 134 _sq._; abroad on Midsummer Eve, 172; ashes of holy fires a protection against, ii. 8, 17; vervain a protection against, 62; guard treasures, 65. _See also_ Evil Spirits

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

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

Denmark, fires on St. John’s Eve in, i. 171; passing sick children through a hole in the ground in, 190, 191; children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets in,