Dead, rebirth of the, i. 84; fear of the, ii. 36 _sq._; souls of the, 64; festival in honour of, at end of harvest, 110; buried in the houses, 115; bones of the, 153 _sq._; mourners rub themselves with the fat or putrefying juices of the, 162 _sq._; souls of the human, supposed to be in caterpillars, 275 _sq._; and in other animals, 285 _sqq._ —— men mutilated in order to disable their ghosts, ii. 271 _sqq._ —— spirits of the, supposed to influence the crops, i. 104; give rain, ii. 109 _sq._; first-fruits offered to, 109 _sq._, 111 _sqq._, 115, 116, 119, 121, 123, 124 _sqq._; prayers to, 112, 113, 124 _sq._; in trees, 113 Deane, Mrs. J. H., ii. 319 _n._ 2 Death and resurrection of the gods, i. 1, 12 _sqq._, 15 —— pollution of, ii. 85 _n._ 3 Deer, flesh of, eaten to prolong life or to avoid fever, ii. 143; not eaten by warriors, 144; treated with respect by American Indians, 240 _sqq._; their bones not given to dogs, 241, 242, 243; Indian custom of cutting out the sinew of the thighs of, 264 _sqq._; souls of dead in, 286, 293 _sq._ _Deiseil_ or _deiseal_, according to the course of the sun, ii. 323, 324 Deities of vegetation as animals, ii. 1 _sqq._ Deity, communion with, ii. 325 Delagoa Bay, i. 114, ii. 280 Delaware Indians, ii. 218 Delphi, grave of Dionysus at, i. 14 Delphic oracle, i. 55, 58 Demeter, mother of Dionysus by Zeus, i. 14, 66; Homeric Hymn to, 35 _sqq._, 70; a personification of the corn, 39, 40 _sq._; distinguished from the Earth-goddess, 41, 43; at the threshing-floor, 41 _sq._, 47; in art, 43 _sq._, 88 _sq._; offering of first-fruits to, 46 _sqq._; surnamed Proerosia, 51; bestows corn on the Athenians, 54; worshipped in Sicily, 56 _sqq._; bestows corn on the Sicilians, 56 _sq._; sacrifices to her at sowing, 57; associated with seed-corn, 58; her epithets, 63 _sq._; her image at Eleusis, 64; her intrigue with Zeus, 66; etymology of name, 131; in relation to the pig, ii. 16 _sqq._; horse-headed, of Phigalia, 21, 338; rustic prototype of, 334 —— and Iasion, i. 208 —— and Pelops, ii. 263 —— and Persephone, i. 35 _sqq._; resemblance of their artistic types, 67 _sq._; their essential identity, 90; associated with death and immortality, 90 _sq._; double personification of the corn as, 208 _sqq._ —— and Zeus, ii. 9; marriage of, i. 65 _sqq._ —— Black, i. 263; of Phigalia, ii. 21 —— Green, i. 42, 263 —— Yellow, i. 41 _sq._ Demeter’s corn, i. 42 Democritus, ii. 146 Demons or ghosts deceived by dummies, ii. 96 _sqq._; repelled by gun-shots, 99 Dendereh, sculptures at, i. 260 Dengdit, high god of the Dinka, ii. 40 _n._, 114 _n._ 2 Denmark, harvest customs in, i. 139 _sq._, 231; the Yule Boar in, i. 300 _sq._ De Smet, J., i. 239 _n._ 1 Descent of Persephone, i. 46, ii. 17 Devonshire reapers, cries of, i. 264 _sqq._ Diasia, an Athenian sacrifice, ii. 95 _n._ 2