—— story of a girl who was forbidden to see the sun, i. 70 _sqq._ _Danserosse_ or _danseresse_, a stone, i. 110 Danube, worship of Grannus on the, i. 112 Danzig, the immortal lady of, i. 100 _Daphne gnidium_ gathered at Midsummer, ii. 51 Dapper, O., on ritual of death and resurrection at initiation in the Belli-Paaro society, ii. 257 _sqq._ Daramulun, a mythical being who instituted and superintends the initiation of lads in Australia, ii. 228, 233, 237; his voice heard in the sound of the bull-roarer, 228. _See also_ Thrumalun and Thuremlin “Darding Knife,” pretence of death and resurrection at initiation to the, ii. 274 _sq._ Darling River, the Ualaroi of the, ii. 233 Darma Rajah, Hindoo god, ii. 6 Darowen, in Wales, Midsummer fires at, i. 201 Darwin, Charles, on the cooling of the sun, ii. 307 Darwin, Sir Francis, on the Golden Bough, ii. 318, 319 _n._ 3 Dashers of churns, witches ride on, ii. 73 _sq._ Date of Chinese festival changed, i. 137 Dathi, king of Ireland, and his Druid, i. 228 _sq._ Davies, J. Ceredig, as to witches in Wales, i. 321 _n._ 2 Dawn of the Day, prayers to the, i. 50 _sq._, 53; prayer of adolescent girl to the, 98 _n._ 1 Dawson, James, on sex totems in Victoria, ii. 216 Dead, festival of the, i. 223 _sq._, 225 _sq._; souls of the, sit round the Midsummer fire, 183, 184; sacrifice of reindeer to the, ii. 178; incarnate in serpents, 211 _sq._; bull-roarers sounded at festivals of the, 230 _n._; first-fruits offered to the souls of the, 243 “Death, carrying out,” i. 119; “the burying of,” 119; effigies of, burnt in spring fires, ii. 21 _sq._; omens of, 54, 64; customs observed by mourners after a death in order to escape from the ghost, 174 _sqq._; identified with the sun, 174 _n._ 1 Death and resurrection, ritual of, ii. 225 _sqq._; in Australia, 227 _sqq._; in New Guinea, 239 _sqq._; in Fiji, 243 _sqq._; in Rook, 246; in New Britain, 246 _sq._; in Ceram, 249 _sqq._; in Africa, 251 _sqq._; in North America, 266 _sqq._; traces of it elsewhere, 276 _sq._ _Debregeasia velutina_, used to kindle fire by friction, ii. 8 December, the last day of, Hogmanay, i. 266; the twenty-first, St. Thomas’s Day, 266 Decle, L., quoted, i. 4 _n._ 1 Dee, holed stone used by childless women in the Aberdeenshire, ii. 187 Deer and the family of Lachlin, superstition concerning, ii. 284 Deffingin, in Swabia, Midsummer bonfires at, i. 166 _sq._ Dehon, P., on witches as cats among the Oraons, ii. 312 _Deiseal_, _deisheal_, _dessil_, the right-hand turn, in the Highlands of Scotland, i. 150 _n._ 1, 154 Delagoa Bay, the Thonga of, i. 29 Delaware Indians, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 54 Delivery, charms to ensure women an easy, i. 49, 50 _sq._, 52; women creep through a rifted rock to obtain an easy, ii. 189 Delmenhorst, in Oldenburg, Easter fires at, i. 142 Delos, new fire brought from, i. 136