Lincoln: ballad of Hugh of Lincoln, 280
Lincolnshire: (see also Barnetby; Brocklesby; Grimsby; Kirton-in-Lindsey; Lincoln; and Stamford); poaching licensed, Guy Fawkes' Day, 438; volume on folklore of, 9
Lion: associated with Melkart and Sandan, 221; in Cuchulainn saga, 44-5; in fable, 17; in folktale, Bemba, 240; in story of Iwain, 37, 43-4
Lithuania: folktale, 193; Laume, baby-stealing deity, 275
Livonia, see Riga
Livre d'Artus, 51 -2
Lizar : bite of samiomitis averted by tree gum, Greek islands, 329; syglos only killed by vinestick, Greek islands, 331
Lieu, the sun god, 143
Llyr as king of Hades, 140
Loango, see Bavili
Loch Fraoch: death of Fraoch, 26
Loch Guirr: in folktale, 26
Lochlann, see Norway
Lochleven: St. Serfs island, 33
Loch Mai: in Highland poem, 24, 26
Locust: charm against, Italy, 188-9
Lodi, K. H.: Folk Traditions of the Mughal Emperors, 427-32
Lombardy, see Lake Garda
Lones, T. E.: Folklore of Aristotle, 212-5
Loritja tribe: All Father belief, 468; ancestral spirits, 468
Lorraine: "lavandières de nuit," 111
Lotus-tree: sacred after fortieth year, Palestine, 70
Lough Derg: St. Patrick's Purgatory, 164
Louth county, see Monasterboice
Love charms: goby in, Aristotle, 215; Greek islands, 330
Lowalangi, All Father, Nias, 468
Loyalty islands, see Uvea island
Lucca: relic at, 302
Lucerne, Canton of, see Entlebuch
Lucky and unlucky days and deeds: Bavili, 239; Bohemia, 261; Greeks, 330-1; Ireland, 81; jātakas, 22; Palestine, 72-3; Sierra Leone, 86-8; Silesia, 261
Lugh, Irish sun god, 131
Lugudunum, see Lyons
Lunacy: fruit of mandrake the "apples of the insane," Arabs, 68; insane are God's fools, Palestine, 57; result of adventures amongst jinn, Palestine, 57; treated at wells, England, 253-4
Luned, see Lunete
Lunete, in Arthurian romances, 41-4, 48-9, 52
Lusiba: folktale, 240
Lustration, ceremonial: (see also Baptism); Armenia, Georgia, &c. 267; jātakas, 22
Lydia: Atys, 222; people of, 223; Sandon-Hercules, 223
Lyons: associated with Lugh, 131; genius of, 131
Mabinogion, the, 35, 143, 145, 149-50
MacDatho's Boar, tale of, 230
Macdonald, A.: Some Former Customs of the Royal Parish of Crathie, Scotland, 84-6
M'Kenzie, Dr. D.: Children and Wells, 251, 253-82
Mackenzie river, see Eskimo
Macusis: taboos at puberty, 408
Madness, see Lunacy
Madonna, The, see Virgin Mary
Madras Presidency, see Badaga tribe; Bellary; Harpanahalli Taluq; Kanara; Kandhs; Kistna; Nilgiri Hills; and Sandur State
Mael Duin the voyager, 34, 157-61
Mafki, river gods, Russia, 273
Magh Mell or "Honey Plain," Ireland, 128, 132, 13s, 149, 151, 154, 340, 446
Magic: (see also Amulets and talismans; Charms and spells; Incantations; and Witchcraft); curses, Connaught, 347-8; fasting associated with, 392-3; for rain, India, 332-3; influence on social relationships, 355; rites religious in form but anti-religious in their ends, 461-2; sympathetic, India, 333, Norfolk, 436
Magicians, see Wizards
Mag mör, the great plain, 135
Magnet as amulet, 249-50
Magpie: cures incontinence of urine, Greek islands, 330; in folktale, 17-8
Mahānipāta, the, 14-5
Mahāvastu, the, 16
Mahavrata, Vedic sun-spell, 223
Mahrattas, see Deccan
