Dieri, the, of Central Australia, i. 106, ii. 151 Digger Indians, the, ii. 164 Digging-sticks used by women, i. 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128 Dijon, harvest custom near, i. 290 Dinka, the, ii. 37 _sqq._, 114 Diocles, i. 37 Diodorus Siculus, on worship of Demeter and Persephone, i. 56 _sqq._ Dionysus, i. 1 _sqq._; god of the vine, 2 _sq._; god of trees, 3 _sq._; a god of agriculture and corn, 5; and the winnowing-fan, 5 _sqq._; as Zagreus, 12; horned, 12; son of Zeus by Persephone, Demeter, or Semele, 12, 14; death and resurrection of, 12 _sqq._, 32; ritual of, 14 _sq._; grave of, 14; as a bull, 16 _sq._, 31; as a goat, 17 _sq._; torn to pieces at Thebes, 25; his marriage to the Queen of Athens, 30 _sq._; son of Zeus and Demeter, 66; and the bull-roarer, 110 _n._ 4; his relation to Pan, Satyrs, and Silenuses, ii. 1 _sqq._; as a bull, 3 _sq._; live animals rent in rites of, 16; the Foxy, 282 Dittenberger, W., i. 77 _n._ 4 Dius, a Macedonian month, i. 46 _n._ 2 Divination, ii. 210; magic dwindles into, i. 110 _n._; by shoulder-blade, ii. 234 Diviners, ancient, their rules of diet, ii. 143 Dodwell, E., at Eleusis, i. 64 Dog, corn-spirit as, i. 271 _sqq._; of the harvest, 273; feast on flesh of, ii. 256; sacrifice of the White, 258 _n._ 2; transmigration of sinner into, 299 —— -eating Spirit, i. 21 —— -star, i. 261 Dog’s flesh or liver eaten to acquire bravery, ii. 145 Dogs devoured in religious rites, i. 20, 21, 22; sacrificed, ii. 196, 202; not allowed to gnaw bones of slain animals, 225, 238 _sqq._, 243, 259; bones of deer not given to, 241, 242, 243 Doll made of last corn at harvest, i. 140, 151, 153, 155, 157, 162 D’Orbigny, A., quoted, i. 120 Dormice, charm against, ii. 281 Door of house protected against fiends, ii. 96 Dough image of god eaten sacramentally, ii. 86 _sqq._, 90 _sq._ —— images of animals sacrificed instead of the animals, ii. 95 _n._ 2 —— puppets as substitutes for live human beings, ii. 101 _sq._ Dragon’s blood, ii. 146 Drama, modern Thracian, at the Carnival, i. 25 _sqq._; magical, 187 _sq._ Dramatic representations of the corn-spirit, ii. 325 —— rites practised with magical intention, i. 1 Dreams as a source of belief in immortality, ii. 260 _sq._ Drinking juices of dead kinsfolk, ii. 163 _n._ 3 Dryas, son of Lycurgus, i. 24, 25 Du Pratz, Le Page, ii. 77 _sqq._ Duke of York Islands, ii. 252 Dumbartonshire, harvest customs in, i. 157 _sq._ Dummies to avert attention of ghosts or demons, ii. 96 _sqq._ “Dumping” people on harvest field, i. 226 _sq._ Dumplings in human form at threshing, i. 148; in form of pigs, 299 Duplication of deities, i. 212 _sq._ Durham, harvest customs in, i. 151 Dyaks, the, i. 313, 314, ii. 100, 101, 102, 152; their ceremonies to secure the rice-soul, i. 188 _sq._; of Borneo, ii. 122, 144, 209, 211; of Sarawak, 279 Dying and Reviving God, i. 1, 33 Eagle-owl worshipped by the Aino, ii. 199