Index.
533
Ledaig : game, 224
Leg, human : figure as votive offering,
Spain, 471 {plate) Legend of Merlin, The, by Miss J. L.
Weston, 230-1 Leicester : Black Anna, the cave
haunter, 55 Leicestershire : {see also Charnwood
Forest ; Leicester ; Louth ; Lud-
borough ; Ludford ; and Ludney) ;
Lud as river god, 50 Leinster : {see also Almu ; Carlow ;
Dublin county ; Kildare county ;
Kilkenny county ; King's county ;
Longford ; Meath ; Mugna, plan of ;
Waterford ; Wexford ; and West-
meath) ; kings, 31, 33; Manannan
with three legs, 141-2 ; Nuada
Necht, ancestor of kings, 31 Leitrim county : {see also Doolas
woods ; and Kiltubbrid) ; cure of
elf-shooting, 200-10 Lemon : in "wassail box," Yorkshire,
349 Lent : burned or cast out in effigy
&c., 258 Leprosy, ceremony for, Jews, 260 Lett, Rev. Canon, exhibit by, 7 Letts : marriage custom, 284 Leudonus, King, see King Leudonus Levarcham backfooted, 131-2, 140 Lewis island : game, 228 Liban, wife of Labraid, 149, 167 Libation ceremonies : Greenland, 408 ;
Iceland, 408 Library of Folk-Lore Society, see
Books Libya, ancient : doves and oaks, 327 ;
origin of Arab breed of horses, 15 Liepa : goat sacrificed, 276 Liepe : birds caught, carried, and
freed, Ascension Day, 271 Life-index : ash-trees, Wiltshire, 322 ;
oak of Hays, Errol, 318-9; oak of
Probus, Cornwall, 323 Lightning : Palm-Sunday palm as
amulet against, Spain, 470 ; as
sword of Nuada or Zeus, 30-1 Limousin, see Laguenne ; and Tulle Lion : in fable, Cairo, 196 ; as local
nickname, Palestine, 22 Lion's River, see Amafunze tribe ; a7id
Inadi tribe Lis Logha, see Naas Lis Lughach, see Tara Lis Luighdhech, see Naas Lisnabilla : meaning of name, 172
Lisnafunchin, meaning of, 62 List of Works dealing with the " Early Institutions " side of Folklore Studies, by A. Nutt, 508-12 Lithuania : root cognate to Nuada,
Little Black Princess, A : a True Tale of Life hi the Nrver-Never Land, by Mrs. J. Gunn, reviewed, 254 Livett, R. : cat's cradle, 82-3 Lizard : in crest of Vi Duinn, Ireland, 325 ; if has feet, can kill scorpion, Cairo, 198 ; as local nickname, 22 Llandaff : Nud, bishop of, 42 Llew Llaw Gyffes, tale of, 31 1-3 Lludd Llawereint, as parallel of Nuada, 47-52, 55-6, 57-9, 143, 343 Llyn Llumonwy : tradition of eagles,
5° Llyr, father of Bendigeid Vran, 309
Loch Aweside : strength test, 218
Lochgilphead : games, 103-4, 222-3
Loch Guirr : in folktale, 347
Lochlann, see Norway
Loch Lein, in tale of Oisin, 147
Loch Lomond, see Llyn Llumonwy
Loch Maree, see Inchmaree
Loch na-n Ean, in folktale, 150
Loegaire, King, see King Loegaire
Loire Inferieure, see Nantes
Loki, fire spirit, 389
London : {see also Clapham ; London bridge ; Ludgate ; and St Paul's cathedral) ; in game, Hebrides, 100 ; sanctuary of god Lud, 50 ; string game, 87
London bridge : in nursery rhyme, 56
Londonderry : St Columcille's church in oak grove, 327
Londonderry county, see London- derry
Londonesia, see Lothian
Longford, see Bri-Leith ; aw^Granard
Lopas : costumes, marriage, and songs, 252
Lome : game, 222-3
Lostwithiel : oak in sympathy with king,_ 324
Lot, King, see King Lot
Loth, King, see King Lot
Lothian : Lot eponym of, 51
Lots, casting : lot bowl in Scandi- navian temples, 414
Lough Erne : crystal tree of, 149 ; journey of Conn-eda, 169-70
Lough Foyle : Grianan Aileach tumu- lus, 32
