Draupadi, the heroine of the _Mahabharata_, ii. 7 Dread and seclusion of menstruous women, i. 76 _sqq._; dread of witchcraft in Europe, 342 Dream, guardian spirit or animal acquired in a, ii. 256 _sq._ Dreaming on flowers on Midsummer Eve, i. 175 Dreams, oracular, i. 238, 242; of love on Midsummer Eve, ii. 52, 54; prophetic, on the bloom of the oak, 292; prophetic, on mistletoe, 293 Driving away the witches on Walpurgis Night, i. 160; at Midsummer, 170, 171 Drobede (Draupadi), the heroine of the epic _Mahabharata_, ii. 7 Drömling district, in Hanover, need-fire in, i. 277 Drought attributed to misconduct of young girls, i. 31 Druid, etymology of the word, i. 76 _n._ 1 Druidical custom of burning live animals, ii. 38; the animals perhaps deemed embodiments of witches, 41 _sq._, 43 _sq._; festivals, so-called, of the Scotch Highlanders, i. 147, 206 —— sacrifices, W. Mannhardt’s theory of the, ii. 43 Druidism, so-called, remains of, i. 233, 241; and the Christian Church in relation to witchcraft, ii. 42 Druid’s Glass, the, i. 16; prediction, the, 229 Druids’ Hill, the, i. 229 Druids, their superstition as to “serpents’ eggs,” i. 15; their human sacrifices, ii. 32 _sq._; in relation to the Midsummer festival, 33 _sqq._, 45; their worship of the mistletoe and the oak, 76 _sq._, 301; their cycle of thirty years, 77; catch the mistletoe in a white cloth, 293 —— of Ireland, i. 157 Drynemetum, “the temple of the oak,” ii. 89 Duck baked alive as a sacrifice in Suffolk, i. 304 Duck’s egg, external soul in a, ii. 109 _sq._, 115 _sq._, 116, 119 _sq._, 120, 126, 130, 132 Duk-duk, secret society of New Britain, i. 11, ii. 246 _sq._ Duke of York Island, ii. 199 _n._ 2; Duk-duk society in, 247; exogamous classes in, 248 _n._ Duke Town, on the Calabar River, ii. 209 Dukkala, New Year customs in, i. 218 Dumbartonshire, Hallowe’en in, i. 237 _n._ 5 Dunbeath, in Caithness, i. 291 Dunkeld, i. 232 Dunkirk, procession of giants on Midsummer Day at, ii. 34 _sq._ Durandus, G. (W. Durantis), his _Rationale Divinorum Officiorum_, i. 161 Durham, Easter candle in the cathedral of, i. 122 _n._ Durris, parish of, Kincardineshire, Midsummer fires in the, i. 206 _sq._ Dusk of the Evening, prayers to the, i. 53 Düsseldorf, Shrove Tuesday custom in the district of, i. 120 Dutch names for mistletoe, ii. 319 _n._ 1 Dwarf-elder at Midsummer detects witchcraft, ii. 64 Dyaks of Borneo, trees and plants as life indices among the, ii. 164 _sq._; their doctrine of the plurality of souls, 222; of Landak and Tajan, marriage custom of the, i. 5; birth-trees among the, ii. 164; of Pinoeh, their custom at a birth, ii. 154 _sq._ Eagle, sacrifice to, i. 152 —— bone, used to drink out of, i. 45 —— clan, ii. 271, 272 _n._ 1 —— -hawk, external soul of medicine-man in, ii. 199 —— -spirits and buried treasures, i. 218