Delphi, perpetual fire at, ii. 91 _n._ 7; the picture of Orpheus at, 294; Stheni, near, 317 Demeter, the torches of, i. 340 _n._ 1; serpents in the worship of, ii. 44 _n._ Demnat, in the Atlas, New Year rites at, i. 217, 218 Demon supposed to attack girls at puberty, i. 67 _sq._; festival of fire instituted to ban a, ii. 3 Demons attack women at puberty and childbirth, i. 24 _n._ 2; expelled at the New Year, 134 _sq._; abroad on Midsummer Eve, 172; ashes of holy fires a protection against, ii. 8, 17; vervain a protection against, 62; guard treasures, 65. _See also_ Evil Spirits Déné or Tinneh Indians, their dread and seclusion of menstruous women, i. 91 _sqq._; the Western, tattooing among the, 98 _n._ 1 _See also_ Tinneh _Denham Tracts_, on need-fire in Yorkshire, i. 287 _sq._ Denmark, fires on St. John’s Eve in, i. 171; passing sick children through a hole in the ground in, 190, 191; children passed through a cleft oak as a cure for rupture or rickets in, ii. 170, 172 _Dessil._ _See_ _Deiseal_ Deux-Sèvres, department of, Midsummer fires in the, i. 191; fires on All Saints’ Day in the, 245 _sq._ Devil, the, seen on Midsummer Eve, i. 208 Devil’s bit, St. John’s wort, ii. 55 _n._ 2 Devils, ghosts, and hobgoblins abroad on Midsummer Eve, i. 202 Devonshire, need-fire in, i. 288; animals burnt alive as a sacrifice in, 302; belief in witchcraft in, 302; crawling under a bramble as a cure for whooping-cough in, ii. 180 Dew, rolling in the, at Midsummer, i. 208, with _n._ 1; at Midsummer a protection against witchcraft, ii. 74 Diana and Juno, ii. 302 _n._ 2 Diana, priest of, at Nemi, ii. 315 Diana’s Mirror, the Lake of Nemi, ii. 303 Dieri of Central Australia, their dread of women at menstruation, i. 77; use of bull-roarers among the, ii. 229 _sq._, 232; bleed themselves to make rain, 232 Dijon, Lenten fires at, i, 114 Dingle, church of St. Brandon near, ii. 190 Diodorus Siculus, on the human sacrifices of the Celts, ii. 32 Dioscorides on mistletoe, ii. 318 _n._ 1 Dipping for apples at Hallowe’en, i. 237, 239, 241, 242, 245 Discs, burning, thrown into the air, i. 116 _sq._, 119, 143, 165, 166, 168 _sq._, 172, 328, 334; burning, perhaps directed at witches, 345 Disease, walking through fire as a remedy for, ii. 7; conceived as something physical that can be stripped off the patient and left behind, 172 Diseases of cattle ascribed to witchcraft, i. 343 Dish, external soul of warlock in a, ii. 141 Dishes, special, used by girls at puberty, i. 47, 49 Dislocation, Roman cure for, ii. 177