DARAMULUN (Australian deity), 27, 66, 71
Darwin, cited, 6
Dasius, story of the martyrdom of, 79, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114,
115, 121, 182, 185, 298, 301
Davis, Mr. John Moore, on Australian native sacrifice of
the first-born, 54
Dawson, Mr. ('Aborigines of Australia'), on native religious worship,
33, 34
Deputy gods, 39
Devils, expulsion of, savage licence following, 187
Diana, grove of (near Aricia): the golden bough in, 207 _et seq._
Diana of the Chersonese, 208
Dieri, the (Central Australian tribe): ancestral spirit
worship, 50, 56, 62, 63, 64
Dio Chrysostom, on the festival of Sacæa, 79, 120 and note, 121, 132,
147, 185, 186, 199, 302
Divine scapegoats, 189 _et seq._
Dodge, Colonel, on North American beliefs, 88, 89
Donnelly, Mr. W. A., discovery of stones marked with cup and ring,
_&c_, 245, 246
Dos Santos, on Caffre beliefs, 97 and note, 234, 235
Druid: origin of the word, 215 note
Druid circles, 242
Druids, gathering mistletoe, 215
Dumbuck (Scotland): marked stones at, 245, 246, 253
Dunbuie (Scotland): stones marked with rings at, 245. 246, 247, 253
Duncan. Hon. L. M.: fire-walking, 277
Dyaks, their superstition regarding new-born children, 261
EABANI (feast of), 164, 165, 166, 178, 180, 181
Eddaic myth of Balder, 213-217
Egyptian Book of the Dead, 72; gods, tombs and mummies, 90;
King of Unreason, 105; sacrifice of red-haired men, 128
Ellis, Sir A. B., 13; theory of borrowed gods, 42; on Ashanti harvest
festival, 188
Erech, Eabani feast at, 164, 165
Esther, Book of, 147, 180; theories concerning, 161-181
Ethiopian kings of Meroe: worshipped as gods, killed by priests, 96
Evolution of gods, 82 _et seq._
Euhemerism, 90
European influences on savage beliefs, 11
Euthyphro, cited, 59, 60
Everard, Mr. H. S. C, cited, 211
Eyeos, sacrifice of king of, 98, 221
Eyre, Mr., on the Australian blacks' idea of origin of creation, 40, 41
Ezekiel, 151, 176
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