INDEX
397
Leipzig, carrying out the effigy of Death in, i. 268
Lent customs, ii. 247-249
Leopard, ceremony at the killing of a, ii. 114
Leper, custom at the cleansing of a, ii. 151
Lerwick wind-sellers, i. 27
Leti, expulsion of diseases to sea by the, ii. 92
Leucadian scapegoat, ii. 213
Lewis, wind selling in the island of, i. 27
Lhoosai, harvest festival of the, i. 69
Libchowic, Mid-Lent custom in the neighbourhood of, i. 93
Licence, periods of, ii. 204
Life of a person bound up with that of a plant, ii. 328-330
Life plants, ii. 329, 330
Lille, harvest ceremonies at, ii. 25, 26
Linus, the name given to the Phoenician lament at vintage time, i. 365
—— song, i. 398, 399
—— identified with Adonis, i. 399
Lion, ceremony at the killing of a, ii. 114; Arabic belief in the properties of lion’s fat, ii. 86
Lithuania, sun worshippers in, i. 24, 25; tree worshippers in, i. 58; superstition concerning the felling of sacred groves in, i. 66, 67; May customs in, i. 83, 84; custom after a funeral in, i. 177; harvest custom in, i. 340, 341; ceremony at threshing time in, i. 372, 373; ceremonies by the peasants at the eating of the new corn in, ii. 69, 70
Little leaf man, i. 88
Lityerses compared with harvest customs, i. 366, 367; story of, i. 392-395; relation of, to Attis, i. 396, 397
—— the name given to a song by the Phrygian reapers, i. 365, 366
Liver, the, thought to be the seat of the soul, ii. 88
Livonia, sacred grove in, i. 65
Llandebie, sin eating in, ii. 155
Loango, king of, deposed when the harvest fails, i. 47; supernaturally endowed kings of, i. 116; a capital offence to see the king eat, i. 161; the king confined to his palace after coronation, i. 164; food left by the king buried, i. 166; food restrictions in, i. 207, 208; girls secluded at puberty in, ii. 226
London, midsummer pageants in, ii. 281
Longnor, harvest custom at, ii. 25
Lost children, superstition concerning, i. 63
Loucheux Indians, abstinence from the sinew of the thigh by the, ii. 127, 128
Luchon, midsummer fire ceremony at, ii. 282
Lumley, Sir J., excavation of the site of the Diana Nemorensis by, i. 2 note
Lüneberg, harvest custom in, i. 377
Lusatia, ceremony of carrying out Death in, i. 259, 264
M‘Bengas, life of a child supposed to be bound up with that of a tree by the, ii. 328, 329
Macusis of British Guiana, treatment of girls at the age of puberty by the, ii. 232 sq.
Madagascar, power ascribed to the souls of the dead in, i. 132; blood of nobles may not be shed in, i. 181; crocodile not killed in, ii. 109, 110
Madenassana bushmen, the goat sacred to the, ii. 56
Madi tribe, burying of the parings of the nails by the, i. 202; lamb killed sacramentally by the, ii. 137, 138
Magic, sympathetic, i. 9-12
—— use of cut hair, i. 198-200
Maiden, a name given to the last handful of corn, i. 344, 345
Maize, mother of the, i. 350-352
Makololo, burning or burying of cut hair by the, i. 205
Malabar, reverence for the cow in, ii. 200
Malagasy, vehicle used by the, for the transference of ills, ii. 149, 150
Malay poem, the external soul in a, ii. 325, 326
Malays and the soul, i. 124; ii. 331; do not touch a man’s head, i. 189
Maldives, cuttings from the hair and nails buried by the natives of the, i. 200
Mamilian tower, ii. 67
Mamurius Veturius or the old Mars, ii. 208-210
Man in cow-skin, ii. 145, 146
—— gods in the South Sea Islands, i. 38, 39
Mandan Indians, and their portraits, i. 148; expulsion of devils by the, ii. 183, 184
Maneros, the name given to the lament of the Egyptian reapers at the cutting of the first sheaf, i. 364
Mangaia, priests called gods in, i. 33; spiritual and temporal government
