viii. 265

Loudoun, in Ayrshire, fires on St. Peter’s Day in the parish of, x. 207

Louhans, in Sâone-et-Loire, the Fox at harvest at, vii. 296 _sq._

Louis XIV. as King of the Bean, ix. 313; at Midsummer bonfire in Paris, xi. 39

Louisiade Islands sacred trees in the, ii. 17

Louisiana, festival of new corn in, viii. 77 _sqq._

——, the Indians of, kept bones of beavers and otters from dogs, viii. 239; lamented the death of the buffaloes which they were about to kill, viii. 242

Lous, a month of the Syro-Macedonian calendar, iv. 113, 116, vii. 258, 259, ix. 355, 358

Love, magical images to procure, i. 77; cures for, i. 161, ix. 3; illicit, thought to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 _sqq._

Love charm, footprints and marigolds in a, i. 211; of arrows, x. 14

—— -charms practised on St. George’s Day, ii. 345 _sq._; by means of hair, iii. 270

“—— Chase” among the Kirghiz, ii. 301

Lover’s Leap, a cape in the island of Leucas, human scapegoats at the, ix. 254

Lovers won by knots, iii. 305; term applied to the Baalim, v. 75 _n._; leap over the Midsummer bonfires, x. 165, 166, 168, 174

—— of goddesses, their unhappy ends, i. 39 _sq._, vi. 158 _sq._

—— of Semiramis and Ishtar, their sad fate, ix. 371 _sq._

Low, Sir Hugh, on Dyak belief as to souls of dead in trees, ii. 30 _sq._; on Dyak treatment of heads of slain enemies, v. 295

Low Countries, the Yule log in the, x. 249

Lowell, Percival, his fire-walk, xi. 10 _n._ 1

Loyalty Islands, recall of a lost soul in the, iii. 54

Lua and Saturn, vi. 233

Luang-Sermata Islands, belief as to cauls in the, i. 188

Luangwa, district of Northern Rhodesia, prayers to dead ancestors in, vi. 175 _sq._

Luba, in Busoga, pretended human sacrifice at, iv. 215

_Lubare_, god, in the language of the Baganda, i. 395

Lübeck, church of St. Mary at, immortal lady in the, x. 100

Lucan, on the Druids, i. 2 _n._ 1

——, the Thessalian witch in, iii. 390

Lucerne, Lenten fire-custom in the canton of, x. 118 _sq._; bathing at Midsummer in, xi. 30

Luchon, in the Pyrenees, serpents burnt alive at the Midsummer festival in, xi. 38 _sq._, 43

Lucian, on hair offerings, i. 28; on the procedure of a Syrian witch, iii. 270; on the names of the Eleusinian priests, iii. 382; on the death of Peregrinus, iv. 42, v. 181; on religious prostitution, v. 58; on image of goddess at Hierapolis-Bambyce, v. 137 _n._ 2; on dispute between Hercules and Aesculapius, v. 209 _sq._; on the ascension of Adonis, v. 225 _n._ 3; old scholium on, viii. 17; as to the rites of Hierapolis, ix. 392; on the Platonic doctrine of the soul, xi. 221 _n._ 1

Lucina, how she delayed the birth of Hercules, iii. 298 _sq._ _See also_ Juno Lucina

Lucius, E., on the Assumption of the Virgin, i. 15 _n._ 1

Luck, bad, transferred to trees, ix. 54; leaping over the Midsummer fires for good, x. 171, 189

Luckau, races at harvest-festival near, vii. 76

Luckiness of the right hand, x. 151

Lucky names, men with, chosen by Romans to open enterprises of moment, iii. 391 _n._ 1

Lucretius, on the origin of fire among men, ii. 257 _n._

Ludhaura, marriage of the _tulasi_ to the _Salagrama_ at, ii. 27

Ludlow in Shropshire, the tug-of-war at, ix. 182

Lug, Celtic god, i. 17 _n._ 2; legendary Irish hero, iv. 99, 101

Lugaba, the supreme god of the Bahima, vi. 190

Lugg, river, in Radnorshire, ix. 183

Lugnasad, the 1st of August, in Ireland, iv. 101

Lules or Tonocotes of the Gran Chaco, their behaviour in an epidemic, ix. 122 _sq._

Lumholtz, C., on agricultural ceremonies of the Tarahumare Indians of Mexico, vii. 227 _sq._; on the transference of fatigue to sticks or stones, ix. 10; on the dances of the Tarahumares of Mexico, ix. 236 _sqq._; on Huichol superstition as to the growth of corn, ix. 347 _n._ 3

_Lumi lali_, consecrated rice-field, among the Kayans of Borneo, vii. 93, 108

Lunar calendar corrected by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 314 _sq._, 315 _sq._; of Mohammedans, x. 216 _sq._, 218 _sq._

—— months of Greek calendar, vii. 52 _sq._, 82; observed by savages, vii. 117, 125

Lunar and solar years, attempts to harmonize, iv. 68 _sq._, vii. 80 _sq._, ix. 325 _sq._, 339, 341 _sqq._

—— sympathy, the doctrine of, vi. 140 _sqq._

—— year equated to solar year by intercalation, ix. 325, 342 _sq._

Lüneburg, district of, harvest custom in the, vii. 230; the Harvest-goat at, vii. 283

Lunéville, calf killed at harvest at, vii. 290

Lung-fish clan among the Baganda, vi. 224

Lung-wong, Chinese rain-god, i. 299

Lungs or liver of bewitched animal burnt or boiled to compel the witch to appear, x. 321 _sq._

Luritcha tribe of Central Australia, their custom of killing and eating children, iv. 180 _n._ 1; their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, v. 99; destroy the bones of their enemies to prevent them from coming to life again, viii. 260

Lusatia (Lausitz), custom of “Carrying out Death” in, iv. 239, 247, 249; the “Witch-burning” in, ix. 163. _See also_ Lausitz

Luschan, Professor F. von, on kings of Dahomey and Benin in animal forms, iv. 85 _n._ 3, 86 _n._ 1; on images stuck with nails, ix. 70 _n._ 1

Lushais of Assam, men dressed as women, women dressed as men, among the, vi. 255 _n._ 1; their belief in demons, ix. 94; sick children passed through a coil among the, xi. 185 _sq._

Lussac, in Vienne, death of the Carnival on Ash Wednesday at, iv. 226; Midsummer fires at, x. 191

Lute-playing, charm for, i. 152

Luther, Martin, burnt in effigy at Midsummer, x. 167, 172 _sq._, xi. 23

Luxemburg, “Burning the Witch” in, xi. 116

Luxor, paintings at, ii. 131, 133; reliefs in temple at, iii. 28; temples at, vi. 124

Luzon, in the Philippine Archipelago, the Ilocans of, i. 142, 179, ii. 18,