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Index.

Lowestoft : amulets, 7

Low Sunday : communion, Wor- cester, 263

Lucky and unlucky days and deeds : Bucks, 223 ; Scotland, 89- 90; U.S.A., 6; Yorkshire, 225-7

LudhiSna : folk-medicine, 85, 315,

317 Lug, Irish god, 231, 404, 477 Lukuledi river, see under tribes Lulemba-lemba : in rain-bringing,

Congo, 468 Lumbuzii : in fetish charm, Congo,

459

Lunacy : amulet against mad dog, Minehead, 7 ; cause of, Greeks, 151, Melanesia, 160; cures for, Congo, 462, 464, Melanesia, 160

Lung diseases : amulet, Congo, 130 ; caused by fetish and witch- craft, Congo, 460, 462, 467

Lushais : dialect, 296 ; exhibits, 9 ; folk-tales, 8 ; men's house, 299 ; reincarnation beliefs, 300-1

Luxemburg, see Echternach

Luzon, see Agoo

Lyctii, see Mt Lyttos

Lycurgos, sun god, Thrace, 66

Mabinogion, The, 112, 237-46

Mabuiag island : magic, 3

Macdonald. A. : Scraps of Scottish Folklore^ 88-9

Macmahons : origin of name, 181

MacNamaras : origin of name, 181

Madeley : singing games, 15

Madness, see Lunacy

Madonna, The, see Virgin Mary

Maelduin, voyage of, 484

Magic : (see also Amulets and talis- mans ; Charms and spells ; Witch- craft) ; animism as related to, 522 ; Banks' islands, 2 ; same fetishes for black and white magic, Congo, 447, 450-2, 471 ; The Force of Initiative in Magi- cal Conflict, by W. R. Halliday, 147-67 ; kurman vine in, Torres Straits, 3 ; magic and religion, 522 ; magic bowl, Persia, 131 ; mana the essence of, 334 ; origin of, 524 ; sorcerer's book, Suma- tra, 2 ; sympathetic, against witchcraft, 150, basis of, 148, 165-6, Congo, 468, Essex, 223, India, 217, 322, 332-3, Mexico, 129 ; time as represented in, 524

Magic squares : as amulets, India,

333

Magpie : in folk-tale, Armenia, 370-1

Maheshai : folk-medicine, 323

Maid Marian : in dance. Abbot's Bromley, 39-40

Maikel : birth gennas, 308 ; village groups, 297-8

Maize : sleight-of-hand tricks, To- go, 258

Makonde : marriage customs, 123 ; social organization, 123

Makua, 123

Malabar : (see also Calicut ; Mup- pans) ; exhibits, 269

Malacca : game, 372

Malak Afghanan : folk-medicine,

319 Malay Archipelago : head-hunting,

177 Malay Peninsula, see Malacca ;

Malays ; Selangor Malays : bark at wild dogs, 162-3 ;

playing the wer-beast, 371-4 ;

rash imprecations, 154 Malbay : fifth wave of Erin, 339 ;

mermaid, 343 Mama Khaira : folk-medicine, 327 Mana : in charms, Ireland, 446 ;

discussed, 147-53, 5^2 ; " virtue "

in the cure of disease, India, 313-34 Manakwal : folk-medicine, 317 Manchester : firstfooting, 224 ;

omens of visitors, 226 Mangat : folk-medicine, 327 Mangunga : exhibits from, 2 Manipur : (see also Gwa Kaithel ;

Imphal) ; age and dietary, 302 ;

exhibits, 9 ; hair dressing, 303 ;

test for raja's son, 303 Manipur Festival, by J. Shake- spear, 79-82 (plate) Mantras, see Charms and spells Maolong : food tabus, 309 ; gennas,

309, 311 Mao Nagas : village groups, 297-8 ;

warder of heaven, 300 Maoris : Grace's Folktales of the

Maori reviewed, 128; masks,

142-3 Maram Nagas : food tabu, 306 Marcross : eye-well, 121 ; Green

Lady, 121 Marett, R. R. : communication

from, 86-8 Marriage customs and beliefs :

answering questions dangerous,