GENERAL INDEX
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Lawson, J. C. (John Cuthbert)
in theory preferable to inhumation, 488 f.;
in recent times, 503;
introduced by Achaeans, 491;
motives for, 502 f.;
preferred to inhumation, 500 f.;
revival of, 502;
serving same religious end as inhumation, 491 ff.
Crockery broken at funerals, 520
Crow, 309;
exception to ordinary rules of divination, 310
Curses, 387 ff., 409;
diagnosed by their effects, 396;
executed by demonic agents, 448;
fixity of, 417;
in Euripides, 418;
in Sophocles, 419;
operation of, 447;
parental, 391 ff.;
revoking of, 388 f.
Custom-dues, for passage of soul to other world, 285
Customs-officers, celestial, 284
Cybele, rites of, 586
Daemons, Plutarch’s theory of, 583 f.
Danaids, as types of unmarried women, 592
Dances, 34
Dead, messages to the, 345;
worship of the, 529 note 1
Dead persons, as messengers to the other world, 344 ff.;
what kinds of food presented to, 533 f.
Deadly sins, 425 ff.
Death, as penalty for bloodguilt, 455;
conceived as a form of marriage, by Sophocles, 549 ff.;
conceived as a form of marriage, in modern dirges, 546 ff.;
conceived as a wedding with Persephone, 595;
how personified in the Alcestis, 115;
in correlation with marriage, 553;
represented as a wedding on sepulchral monuments, 597 f.;
sudden or violent, 408, 427
Death-struggle, 288, 289;
how eased, 389