Index.
399
Lincolnshire superstitions, by Rev. R.
M. Heanley, iS6 Lindholme, large stone at, 275 Lindorm, in Danish folklore, 213,
,215 Lions as spirits of departed people,
Africa, 308 Lithuanian folklore, Perkunas the
rain-god of, 279 Living persons immured, 367, 368 Loaf-kissing in Calabria, 258 Loathly Lady theme in tales of Diar-
mid and Gawain, 270 Lodge, Oliver W. F., junior, Easter
eggs and dolls, 365 Loegaire, the name, 60 Lohasur Devi, Dravidian goddess,
169 Loki, survival of cult, in Lincolnshire,
186 Lolling, his work summarized by
Frazer, 175 Lombard campaign against a snail,
267 Longinus, lance of, found by the
Crusaders, 359, 360 Lowestoft, fishing dole at, 245, 248,
250 Lucian, cited on shrouding the dead,
123 Lucifer and Jack the Giant-Killer,
238 Lucky and unlucky days and deeds,
258, 341 Lumberdar, in Indian weddings, 145 Lycaon, why turned into a wolf,
Lucomids, their recitations, 180
Mahinogion, the, 181 ; value to folk- lore, 42 ; primitive figures of, 356
MacGregor, Sir W., his report on British New Guinea, cited, 255
Mackerel fishing-dole, 247-250
McNair, Major, and T. L. Barlow, Customs and Ceremonies observed at Betrothal, or " Mangavah," and at a wedding or "Viah" (also called *' Shadee ") by moderately well-off Mohammedans of the farmer class, in and about the district near Ghazi, in the Punjab,
MacNeill, his duty, as chief, to
widows, 104 MacPhail, Malcolm, Folklore from
the Hebrides, IIL, 84
Madden, Sir F., cited on the Gawain legend, 167, 168
Madness, the, of Nebuchadnezzar, and parallels, 179 ; Scotch cure for, 377 ; Syrian treatment of, 12
Magic {see Sorcery a^td Witchcraft), evolution of mimetic, 78 ; Indian mimetic and sympathetic, 279
Magic Dresses, 128, 129
Magpies, rhyme concerning, 287
Mahdhhdrata, the, cited on tribal meetings, 108, on the breaking of Siva's bow, 132
Maidstone, effigy of medical officer of health burned, 256
Maina, towers of, 179
Maisieres, Paien de, author of the Mule sans Frein, 268
Majhwar wedding dresses, 124, 125
Males excluded from dyeing, Ireland, 124
Malory's Morte (T Arthur, 181
Manchu wedding head-cloth, 125
Manetho, cited on animal worship in Egypt, 165
Mar Elias, oath by, 18
Marathon, ghostly warriors of, and parallels, 179
Marie, Lais of, and other lais, 266
Marigold flowers sacred in India, 185
Market-place, Sparta, closed on death of king, 117
Marriage-customs ; bed of Odysseus, 131 ; in Australia, 322, 323 ; capture, 325 ; elopement and exogamic, 298 ; Beena marriage 104; Basuto, 112; Confarreatio 325; European "jus primce noctis," 366 ; general, bow-bend- ing or other contest for bride, 133 ; group-marriage, 254 ; Homeric, 104, 112; Greek, later, 112; Nereid wife, 341 ; Indian, 127 ; Dusadh, 17 1 ; Hindu, in ; North- westProv., 170, 171 ; Punjab, 136; Kalmuck, 112; Norwegian, 127; primitive, 162 ; prohibited degrees in, origin of, 251-254 ; Scotch, the Rowhope wedding, 132 ; Sinha- lese, 112; wedding dresses and veils of various nations, 125-127 ; demons in connection with, 125
Martinmas, 3S0
Master Maid, tale and parallels, 121 ; Thief cycle, 100, and parallels, 233
