The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)
iii. 44;
Bontoc in, ii. 30, vii. 240; the Apoyaos of, vii. 241; rice-fields guarded against wild hogs in, viii. 33; the Catalangans of, viii. 124; the Irayas of, viii. 124; exorcism in, ix. 260
Lyall, Sir Alfred C., on the opposition between religion and magic, i. 224 _n._ 1
Lyall, Sir Charles J., on the system of mother-kin among the Khasis, vi. 202 _sq._
Lycaeus, Mount, rain-making spring on, i. 309; rain-charm practised by the priest of Zeus on, ii. 359; sanctuary of Zeus on, iii. 88; festival of Zeus on, iv. 70 _n._ 1; human sacrifices on, iv. 163, ix. 353
Lycaonian plain, v. 123
Lyceum or Place of Wolves at Athens, viii. 283, 284
Lycia, Patara in, ii. 135; flowers in, v. 187 _n._ 6; Mount Chimaera in, v. 221; mother-kin in, vi. 212 _sq._
Lycian language, question of its affinity, vi. 213 _n._ 1
—— men dressed as women in mourning, vi. 264
_Lycium europaeum_, L., ix. 153 _n._ 1
Lycomedes, king of Scyros, Achilles at the court of, ii. 278
Lycopolis, in Egypt, the wolf, the beast-god of, viii. 172
Lycosura, in Arcadia, taboos observed in the sanctuary of the Mistress at, iii. 227 _n._, 314, viii. 46; statue of Demeter or Persephone in the sanctuary of the two goddesses at, viii. 339
Lycurgus, king of the Edonians in Thrace, put to death to restore fertility to land, i. 366; torn in pieces by horses, vi. 98, 99, vii. 241; slew his son Dryas, vii. 24, 25
Lycus, valley of the, at Hierapolis, v. 207
Lydia, female descent of kingship in, ii. 281 _sq._; prostitution of girls before marriage in, v. 38, 58; the lion-god of, v. 184; the Burnt Land of, v. 193 _sq._; traces of mother kin in, vi. 259; the burning of kings in, ix. 391
Lydian kings held responsible for the weather and the crops, i. 366, v. 183; their divinity, v. 182 _sqq._; traced their descent from Ninus and Hercules, ix. 391
Lydians celebrate a festival of Dionysus in spring, vii. 15
Lydus, Joannes, on Phrygian rites at Rome, v. 266 _n._ 2; on the expulsion of Mamurius Veturius, ix. 229 _n._ 1
Lyell, Sir Charles, on hot springs, v. 213 _n._ 4; on volcanic phenomena in Syria and Palestine, v. 222 _n._ 1
Lying-in women, widespread fear of, iii. 150 _sqq._; sacred, iii. 151
Lynxes not called by their proper name, iii. 398
Lyons, the harvest Cat in the neighbourhood of, vii. 280
Lyre as instrument of religious music, v. 52 _sq._, 54 _sq._; the instrument of Apollo, v. 288
Lysimachus scatters the bones of the kings of Epirus, vi. 104
_Lythrum salicaria_, purple loosestrife, gathered at Midsummer, xi. 65
Ma, goddess of Comana in Pontus, v. 39, 265 _n._ 1, ix. 421 _n._ 1
Ma-hlaing, district of Burma, rain-making in, i. 288
Maass, E., on the identification of Donar with Jupiter, iii. 364 _n._ 3
Mablaan, chief of the Bawenda, revered as rain-maker, i. 351
Mabuiag, island in Torres Straits, use of magical images in, i. 59; rain-making in, i. 262; charms to raise the wind in, i. 323 _sq._; the fire-drill in, ii. 209; seclusion of girls at puberty in, iii. 147, x. 36 _sq._; continence observed during turtle-season and before hunting dugong in,