Dead, souls of the, associated with falling stars, 64 _sqq._; rebirth of the, 70; sacrifices to the, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97; human blood offered to the, 92 _sq._, 104 Dead kings, worship of, 24 _sq._; their spirits thought to possess sick people, 25 _sq._; of Uganda consulted as oracles, 200 _sq._ —— man’s hand used in magical ceremony, 267 _n._1 —— One, the, name applied to the last sheaf, 254 —— Sunday, 239; the fourth Sunday in Lent, 221; also called Mid-Lent, 222 _n._1 Death of the Great Pan, 6 _sq._ —— preference for a violent, 9 _sqq._; natural, regarded as a calamity, 11 _sq._; European fear of, 135 _sq._, 146; indifference to, displayed by many races, 136 _sqq._; the Carrying out of, 221, 233 _sqq._, 246 _sqq._; conception of, in relation to vegetation, 253 _sq._; in the corn, 254; and resurrection of Kostrubonko at Eastertide, 261; and revival of vegetation, 263 _sq._ Death, effigy of, feared and abhorred, 239 _sq._; potency of life attributed to, 247 _sqq._ —— the Angel of, 177 _sq._ De Barros, Portuguese historian, 51 Deer, descent of Kalamants from a, 126 _sq._; sacrificed instead of human beings, 166 _n._.1 Delos, Theseus at, 75 Delphi, tombs of Dionysus and Apollo at, 3 _sq._; festival of Crowning at, 78 _sqq._ Dengdit, the Supreme Being of the Dinka, 30, 32 Deputy, the expedient of dying by, 56, 160 Dictynna and Minos, 73 Dinka, the, of the White Nile, 28 _sqq._; totemism of the, 30 _sq._ Diomede, human sacrifices to, 166 _n._1 Dionysus, the tomb of, at Delphi, 3; human sacrifice consummated by a priest of, 163; boys sacrificed to, 166 _n._1 Dislike of people to have children like themselves, 287 Diurnal tenure of the kingship, 118 _sq._ Divine king, the killing of the, 9 _sqq._ —— kings of the Shilluk, 17 _sqq._ —— spirit incarnate in Shilluk kings, 21, 26 _sq._ Dodge, Colonel R. I., 3 Dog killed instead of king, 17 Doreh Bay in New Guinea, 287 Dorians, their superstition as to meteors, 59 Dragon, drama of the slaughter of the, 78 _sqq._, 89; myth of the, 105 _sqq._ Dragon-crest of kings, 105 Dramatic contests of actors representing Summer and Winter, 254 _sqq._ Dreams, revelations in, 25 Drenching leaf-clad mummer as a rain-charm, 211 Driver, Professor S. R., 170 _n._5, 173 _n._1 Ducks and ptarmigan, dramatic contest of the, 259 Dyak medicine-men, their practice of swinging, 280 _sq._ Dyaks of Sarawak, story of their descent from a fish, 126; sacrifice cattle instead of human beings, 166 _n._1; their sacrifices during an epidemic, 176 _n._1; their custom of swinging, 277 Dying, custom of catching the souls of the, 198 _sqq._ Dying by deputy, 56, 160 Eames, W., 273 Ears of sacrificial victims cut off, 97 Easter, first Sunday after, 249; swinging on the Tuesday after, 283; custom of swinging on the four Sundays before, 284 Easter Eve in Albania, expulsion of Kore on, 265 Eastertide, death and resurrection of Kostrubonko at, 261