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Ladder : as witch's horse, Monniouth- shire, 80
Lagos : royal succession in, 98
Lai de Bisclaveret, 63-5
Lai de AklioJi, 63-5
Laius, King, see King Laius
Laius, myth of, 389
Lakes, see latder 7iames
Lamb, see Sheep
Lameness in kings, Greece, 375
Lamia : month called Apellaios, 420
Lancashire : {see also Rochdale ; aiid Roche river) ; relative nigrescence in, 234
Landnama hoc, the, 19
Lang, A.: commef/Js ofi B^intu Totem- ism, 204: Dr. Durkheim on "Social Origins," 100-2, 216
Language in relation to folklore, 1 14-5
Laodicea (Syria) : foundation sacri- fice, 441
Lapps : bibliography of folklore of,
479
Lark: myth of origin of, Greeks, 388-
Laurel-tree: crowns from in Pythian games, 404, 424; Daphnephoria, Boeotia, 409-10; on grave of King Amycus, 378 ; laurel-bearing, The- bes, 411; name related to that of oak, 423 ; of Tempe, in myth of Pythian Apollo, 404; on vase, Vulci, 411
Lebadea : Trophonius styled Zeus, 301; Zeus of the rain, 266
Lebffia: story of king of, 306
Lecture committee, 7-8
Leechcraft, see Medical folklore
Left: duppy must be struck first with left hand, Jamaica, 94; duppy seen over left shoulder, Jamaica, 207; hand to cross against devil, Sicily, 128
Legs : duppy can be seen by looking between, Jamaica, 89, 208, and kills looker, Jamaica, 212
Leicestershire : the seven whistlers, 478
Leinster: {see also Dublin county ; Kildare; Louth; Meath; Ti]3perary; and Westmeath) ; the raid of Queen Meave, 235-8
Leitrim : folktales, 336-41
Lelante, myth of, 389
Leonteus, suitor of Helen, 425
Leprechaun, the, 340-1
Lepreum : Zeus of the white poplar, 297, 419
Lerna : Hydra, myth of, 284 Letto-Slavonic peoples, god of, 264 Leuce, the white poplar nymph, 297,
421 Levarcham, nurse of Deirdrc, 25-7,
.29-34 Libanza the creator, Congo, 326-31 Libethrius, Mount, see Galaxium Libya, see Africa Libyan Oasis, see Ammonium Life-index : fetish horn as. Upper
Congo, 327-8; tree as, 45, 58 Lightning god : Basutos, 246, 247 ;
Zeus conjectured to be, 265 Lightning hurled by tiger, Korea,
449
Lilith, especially dangerous at child- birth, Jerusalem, 186, 194
Liloa, King, see King Liloa
Lime juice added to money to pro- tect. Jamaica, 94
Limerick county : wise woman only can make butter, 459-60
Limpopo river, see Seleka tribe
Lincolnshire, see Stamford
Linnet : myth of, Greeks, 388
Lion : connected with sun, 425 ; in folktales, Somales, 323-5
" Lion "-tree : Argo made from, 424
Lips : omens from twitching of, Jamaica, 2IO, 450, 454
Lityerses, myth of, 379
Lizard : form taken by .shot duppy, Jamaica, 94 ; omen from cry of, Jamaica, 211
Llandicefn : harvest custom, 195-6
Llan-Shipping : headless ghost, 196
Lloyd, Aliss L. C, Bantu Totemism, 203-4
Loaf, see Bread
Lochcarron, see Kishorn
Lock, in charm necklace, Yemen Jews, 191 {plate)
Locri (Italy) : Euthymus deified, 401
Locris, see Thermopylae
Loki, myths of, 366-7
London: {see also Y^e.Xi%\Ti<g\.ow') ; Guy Fawkes' Day, i, 106-7 j waxen image melted, 102-3
Lonka-lonka, shell ornament, Austra- lia, 159, 163
Looking glass : breakage seven years sorrow, Jamaica, 207, 212, 455 ; reverse or cover on death, Jamaica, 206
Lotus : Buddhist emblem, 333
Louisiana : folktales, 125
