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27-47 ; Midsummer Day, 250, 284-5 ; Midsummer Eve, 29, 31, 44, 65; Moharram, 40- 1 ; Mon- day, 81 ; New Year, 38, 40-2 ; New Year's Day, 91, 210-6; New Year's Eve, 40-2 ; Night, 273 ; Parilia, 316; Pentecost, 43 ; Popli- fugia festival, 328 ; Regifugium festival, 330-1 ; Sacra Nonalia, 331 ; St. Anthony's Day, 155 ; St. Bar- tholomew's Day, 67 ; St. James's Day, 180-2 ; St. John's Day, 466 ; St. John's Eve, 466 ; St. John's Feast, 54 ; Saturnalia, 324 ; Sep- tember, 182, 245, 257, 454; Shrove- tide, 204 ; Thursday, 81; Tuesday, 81 ; Wednesday, 81, 464-5 ; Whit- sunday, 43; Whitsuntide, 178-9; W^hit- Wednesday, 464-5
Dead, cult of, connected with Yule beliefs, N. Europe, 366
Death and funeral customs and beliefs : {see also Graves ; and Omens) ; anniversary of death celebrated, S. Nigeria, 434-5 ; burial customs, S. Africa, 356, Iceland. 359; burial in church wall, Monmouthshire, 175 ; Charon, modern Greeks, 21 ; Cornelia gens, funerals of, Rome, 304 ; corpse, back not wetted in washing, Jamaica, 70 ; corpse, if back wetted, opens eyes, Jamaica, 73 ; corpse buried in plaid. Isle of Man, 210; corpse carried feet first, and face to east, Monmouthshire, 66 ; corpse can frown and smile, Jamaica, 74 ; corpse, looking at through fork shows sex, Jamaica, 73 ; corpse-present, Scotland, 209-10; corpse, salt or turf laid on, Monmouthshire, 66 ; corpse should not be seen by person with sores, Jamaica, 73 ; dead return if not bid farewell, Jamaica, 74 ; dead return on third or every night, Jamaica, 70, 74, and finally leave on ninth, Jamaica, 70, 74 ; death caused by evil being from beneath the earth, Aranda tribe, 430 ; dirt not swept from house with corpse, Jamaica, 71 ; eagle released at pyre of Augustus, Rome, 312 ; funeral cakes, Monmouthshire, 66 ; future life, beliefs about, 236, Bavili, 373, Bushmen, 354, Masai, 235-6 ; looking at corpse through fork breaks own neck, Jamaica, 73 ;
prayers for dead, 475 ; sloth skin worn as mourning, Congo, 380 ; totemism in, Solomon islands, 114
December : {see also Christmas ; and Larentalia) ; funeral offerings of Junius Brutus, Rome, 298 ; time of rainy Jove, 267
Decius, prayer of, 321
Deity, conceptions of: Australian tribes, 105-6, no, 222-4; Masai, 235
Deluge legends, 118, 236
Demeter, the goddess, 264 ; as saint, Eleusis, 24
Demnat : Berber tribes, 27 ; fire in charm. New Year, 40- 1 ; mar- riage charm, 41
Demons and evil spirits : {see also Devil) ; 475 ; of Aranda tribe, Australia, 430; Ashmedai, 415, 417-8 ; cause diseases, Australia, 430 ; dead changed into, Solomon islands, 1 1 5 ; God's name drives away, Jamaica, 74 ; imps, Cam- bridgeshire, 188-9; live in stomachs of witches, Loango, 382 ; posses- sion, see Possession, demon ; parent of Merlin, 412-3, 415 ; wood, hair offered to, Malabar and New Zea- land, 467
Denbighshire, see Pentrevoelas
Denmark : Yule, 367
Dennett, R. E. : Bavili Notes, 242, 371-406 {plates) ; Notes from South Nigeria, 242, 434-9
Dennis, L. J., Fin MacCoul's Pebble, 186 {plate)
Derbyshire, see Burbage ; Buxton ; and Fairfield
Devil : as black beast, Glencoe, 61 ; Devil in Glencoe, The, and other Stories, by Miss D. Bailey, 1,61-2; in folktale. Wye valley, 174; places named after. Wye valley, 174-5 ' spoils brambles, Sept., 454; as stone-thrower, Monmouthshire, 164
Devonshire : corn ornaments, 2
Diana : {see also Artemis) ; asso- ciated with Dianus, 276, 288-90, 292, or Janus, 277-9, 288-9 5 Augusta, Aquileia, 288 ; as beech- wood goddess, 283; birthday, Aug. Ides, Rome, 332 ; cock asso- ciated with, 148, 153 ; emblems of, 155 ; of Ephesus, crescents always face downward, 141 ; on hair-pin, Fiume, 148, 153; Nemi lake as mirror of, 289 ; Nemorensis, 288-9,
