Divination on St. John’s Night (Midsummer Eve), i. 173, ii. 46 _n._ 3, 50, 52 _sqq._, 61, 64, 67 _sqq._; at Midsummer in Spain and the Azores, i. 208 _sq._; at Hallowe’en, 225, 228 _sqq._; by stones at Hallowe’en fires, 230 _sq._, 239, 240; by stolen kail, 234 _sq._, 241; by clue of yarn, 235, 240, 241, 243; by hemp seed, 235, 241, 245; by winnowing-basket, 236; by thrown shoe, 236; by wet shirt, 236, 241; by white of eggs, 236 _sq._, 238; by apples in water, 237; by a ring, 237; by names on chimney-piece, 237; by three plates or basins, 237 _sq._, 240, 244; by nuts in fire, 237, 239, 241, 242, 245; by salt cake, or salt herring, 238 _sq._; by the sliced apple, 238; by eavesdropping, 238, 243, 244; by knife, 241; by briar-thorn, 242; by melted lead, 242; by cabbages, 242; by cake at Hallowe’en, 242, 243; by ashes, 243, 244, 245; by salt, 244; by raking a rick, 247; magic dwindles into, 336. _See also_ Divining-rod Divine personages not allowed to touch the ground with their feet, i. 2 _sqq._; not allowed to see the sun, 18 _sqq._; suspended for safety between heaven and earth, 98 _sq._ Divining-rod cut on Midsummer Eve, ii. 67 _sqq._; made of hazel, 67 _sq._, 291 _n._ 3; made of mistletoe in Sweden, 69, 291; made of four sorts of wood, 69; made of willow, 69 _n._; made out of a parasitic rowan, 281 _sq._ Divisibility of life, doctrine of the, ii. 221 Dobischwald, in Silesia, need-fire at, i. 278 Dodona, Zeus and his sacred oak at, ii. 49 _sq._ Dog not allowed to enter priest’s house, i. 4; beaten to ensure woman’s fertility, 69; charm against the bite of a mad, ii. 56; a Batta totem, 223 —— Star, or Sirius, supposed by the ancients to cause the heat of summer, i. 332 Dolac, need-fire at, i. 286 Dolmen, sick children passed through a hole in a, ii. 188 Dommartin, Lenten fires at, i. 109 Door, separate, for girls at puberty, i. 43, 44 Doorie, hill of, at Burghead, i. 267 Doors, separate, used by menstruous women, i. 84 Doorway, creeping through narrow opening in, as a cure, ii. 181 _sq._ Dosadhs, an Indian caste, the fire-walk among the, ii. 5 Dosuma, king of, not allowed to touch the ground, i. 3 Douay, procession of the giants at, ii. 33 _sq._ Double-axe, Midsummer king of the, i. 194 Dourgne, in Southern France, crawling through holed stones near, ii. 187 _sq._ Dove, the ceremony of the fiery, at Easter in Florence, i. 126; a Batta totem, ii. 223 Doves, external soul of magicians in, ii. 104; Aeneas led by doves to the Golden Bough, 285, 316 _n._ 1 Dragon at Midsummer, effigy of, ii. 37; external soul of a queen in a, 105; of the water-mill, Servian story of the, 111 _sqq._ Dragons driven away by smoke of Midsummer bonfires, i. 161; St. Peter’s fires lighted to drive away, 195 Draguignan, in the department of Var, Midsummer fires at, i. 193