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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