Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Excerpt: ... alive of child, Denmark, 360, do. in dyke, of would-be destroyer, Groningen, 361: Burial on Friday not right, Hebrides, 268; human sacrifices, Egypt, 229, Japan, 322; Dead men's bones as dice, India, 418, Sati, 412; Funeral proces- sion seen after sunset, Ireland, 363, Lights on graves, do., 362; Build- ing set apart for corpse, Japan, 300, Washing of mourners after interment, ib., 302, Wreaths hung in mortuaries, ib., 321; Nails in skulls. Lincolnshire, 457: Burial customs, London, 254, 477; do., Northumberland, 254 forecasts, Omens or Warnings, Black lamb if the first seen, 121, clock striking 12, during creed, 480; Dead coach, 119, 122; fowls flying about, 264; pigeon entering house, 122, 123, 248. 333; rain- bow 364; seeing faces in well on Easter morning, 480: spirits going to and from church, 481; tap on window, 122, 123 savage difficulty in believing in, 338 temporary, Indian tolklore, 396 Death-warnings, M. Peacock, 248 Deaths, successive, Hebrides, 272 Deddjal (Antichrists, 230 Deer in Indian folktales, 415, 416, 434; Hira the deer, 416: un- grateful, 416; with twisted horns, 439 Deification of the Mikados, recent origin of, 323 Deirdre, 220 Deity, Indian peasant ideas of, 440 Deluge, (see also Flood), pyramids as means of escape from, 230 Demeter worship, supposed modem survival of in Sicily, 252 Demon bound by Archangel Michael, his list of names, 162 Demon-expelling ceremony, Japan, 32i Demons, animal forms assumed by, 262; controlled by wizards, 152; good, 154; Half-head and paral- lels, 172; in Indian folktales, 412, sqg. Denmark, folklore of, 459, burial of animals in buildings, 360, burial of child in wall, ib., the Ellekone, VOL. X. 2 or hollow-backed fairy, 173, 459; Milk-hares, 460 Dennett, R. E., "Notes on the Folk- lore of the Fjort," with Errata, "3 Deo in In...