ii. 170, 172

_Dessil._ _See_ _Deiseal_

Deux-Sèvres, department of, Midsummer fires in the, i. 191; fires on All Saints’ Day in the, 245 _sq._

Devil, the, seen on Midsummer Eve, i. 208

Devil’s bit, St. John’s wort, ii. 55 _n._ 2

Devils, ghosts, and hobgoblins abroad on Midsummer Eve, i. 202

Devonshire, need-fire in, i. 288; animals burnt alive as a sacrifice in, 302; belief in witchcraft in, 302; crawling under a bramble as a cure for whooping-cough in, ii. 180

Dew, rolling in the, at Midsummer, i. 208, with _n._ 1; at Midsummer a protection against witchcraft, ii. 74

Diana and Juno, ii. 302 _n._ 2

Diana, priest of, at Nemi, ii. 315

Diana’s Mirror, the Lake of Nemi, ii. 303

Dieri of Central Australia, their dread of women at menstruation, i. 77; use of bull-roarers among the, ii. 229 _sq._, 232; bleed themselves to make rain, 232

Dijon, Lenten fires at, i, 114

Dingle, church of St. Brandon near, ii. 190

Diodorus Siculus, on the human sacrifices of the Celts, ii. 32

Dioscorides on mistletoe, ii. 318 _n._ 1

Dipping for apples at Hallowe’en, i. 237, 239, 241, 242, 245

Discs, burning, thrown into the air, i. 116 _sq._, 119, 143, 165, 166, 168 _sq._, 172, 328, 334; burning, perhaps directed at witches, 345

Disease, walking through fire as a remedy for, ii. 7; conceived as something physical that can be stripped off the patient and left behind, 172

Diseases of cattle ascribed to witchcraft, i. 343

Dish, external soul of warlock in a, ii. 141

Dishes, special, used by girls at puberty, i. 47, 49

Dislocation, Roman cure for, ii. 177

Divination on St. John’s Night (Midsummer Eve), i. 173, ii. 46 _n._ 3, 50, 52 _sqq._, 61, 64, 67 _sqq._; at Midsummer in Spain and the Azores, i. 208 _sq._; at Hallowe’en, 225, 228 _sqq._; by stones at Hallowe’en fires, 230 _sq._, 239, 240; by stolen kail, 234 _sq._, 241; by clue of yarn, 235, 240, 241, 243; by hemp seed, 235, 241, 245; by winnowing-basket, 236; by thrown shoe, 236; by wet shirt, 236, 241; by white of eggs, 236 _sq._, 238; by apples in water, 237; by a ring, 237; by names on chimney-piece, 237; by three plates or basins, 237 _sq._, 240, 244; by nuts in fire, 237, 239, 241, 242, 245; by salt cake, or salt herring, 238 _sq._; by the sliced apple, 238; by eavesdropping, 238, 243, 244; by knife, 241; by briar-thorn, 242; by melted lead, 242; by cabbages, 242; by cake at Hallowe’en, 242, 243; by ashes, 243, 244, 245; by salt, 244; by raking a rick, 247; magic dwindles into, 336. _See also_ Divining-rod

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

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

Divisibility of life, doctrine of the, ii. 221

Dobischwald, in Silesia, need-fire at, i. 278

Dodona, Zeus and his sacred oak at, ii. 49 _sq._

Dog not allowed to enter priest’s house, i. 4; beaten to ensure woman’s fertility, 69; charm against the bite of a mad, ii. 56; a Batta totem, 223

—— Star, or Sirius, supposed by the ancients to cause the heat of summer,