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 Index.

493

Knight de la Tour Landry, Book of

the, 17-8 Knockainy : in folktale, 31 Knotting: at marriage, Gallas, 321 Knucklebones, see Astragali Konde : word ilyosi, 238 Kongo : Ntotela or king of, 235 ;

word nika, 238 Koreish : ancient practice continued

in Ramadan fast, 417 Koryaks : mourning customs, 406 Krebs, W. : Opening Windows to

Aid the Release of the Soul,

215

Kronos ; Melkart identified with, 127

Kuar month : 1 5 days sacred to wor- ship of dead, Oudh, 401

Kuinmurbura tribe : betrothal cere- mony, I79> 315

Kunibert's well, Cologne, 268

Kurnai tribe : All Father belief, 468 ; marital &c. terms, 174-6, 178, 181, 183, 310-3

Kurnandaburi tribe : marriage cus- toms, 184

Kwakiutl tribe : social organization,

lOI

Kynon, see Calogrenant

Lady of the Fountain, The, 35, 38-9,

44-9, 51.

Ladybird : brings babies' souls, Ger- many, 269

Laeghaire, King, see King Laeghaire

Lake Eyre, see Dieyeri tribe

Lake Garda : lime-tree near, 50

Lakes : {see also under names') ; babies thrown into, Aztecs, 276 ; kelpie, Ireland, 226

Lamb, see Sheep

Lanarkshire, see Avon

Lancashire, j-f^ Jenny Greenteeth; and Ribble river

Lance, in Grail romances, 287, 289- 90, 294, 296, 298, 303

Lancelot romances, 298

Lang, A. : Breaking the Bough in the Grove of Diana, 89-91 ; ' Death's Deeds,' a Bi-located Story, 362, 376-90 ; The Native Tribes of South- East Australia, 93 ; review by^ — Hoffmann's La Notion de C Eire Supreme chez les Petipies Non- Civilisis, 467-9

Langholm Marches : customs at rid- ing of, 335-6

Lapps : bathing rite, 264 ; fasting, ceremonial, 393 ; wizard's purifica- tion, 393

Lapwing : stolen from Annwn, 145

L'Ar ; or the Transference of Tradi- tional Curses in Morocco, by Dr. E. Westermarck, 250

Laragh : burial of amputated leg,

83

Lata, All Father, Reef islands, 468

Latin folklore, see Romans, ancient

Latium, see Aricia

Laume, deity, Lithuanians &c. , 275

Lavandieres de nuit, 1 1 1

Lead : revenge image, Greece, 67

Lebanon county : Grumbine's Folklore and Superstitious Beliefs of L.C. (Penn.), short notice of, 356-7

Leinster : (see also Kildare county ; Louth ; Meath ; and Wicklow) ; Mesgegra, brain ball of, 228-9

Lemnos : he-goat gives milk, 213

Lent : fast as preparation for com- munion, 393, originally 40 hours only, 409-10 ; Lent Monday sports, Sweden, 337-8 ; marriages arranged shortly before, W. Ireland, 78 ; week before, south wind blows, Greek islands, 331

Leopard : descent of, Bavili, 236 ; in folktales, Lusiba, 240, Sierra Leone, 240 ; mother of all animals, Bavili, 236 ; sacred animal, Bantu, 239 ; Human Leopard Society, 363, 425-6 [plate) ; skin only worn by chiefs, Bantu, 239 ; substituted names for, Bantu, 239 ; teeth imi- tated in necklace, Mendiland, 362

Lepers, in Tristan legends, 234

Leviathan, legend of, 72

Libations, when drinking, Palestine, 67

Library of Folk -Lore Society, see Books

Ligan Lumina of the Fianna, 27

Lightning : hissed &c., Sierra Leone, 87 ; slays child born in thunder- storm, Hesse, 278

Liguria : folktale, 193

Lilith, jinn descend from, Palestine,

71 Limerick county, see ICnockainy Lime-tree : in Arthurian &c. romances,

50 ; babies come from, Nierstein,

268 Limestone revenge image, Palestine,

67