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 Imprecations (see also Curses), 387 ff.

Incantation, against whirlwinds, 150

Incorruptibility (see also Vrykolakes), 384; ancient imprecations of, 417 ff.; Apollo's threat of, 421; as punishment of blood-guilt, 456; ecclesiastical view concerning, 396

Inhumation (see also Funeral-rites), 485 ff.; ceremonial substitutes for, 489 f.; combined with cremation, 494; serving same religious end as cremation, 491 ff.; the Pelasgian rite, 491

Initiated, future happiness of the, 563 f.; hopes of the, 578 f.

Ino, parallel to story of, 138

Insanity, popular view of, 299

Inspiration, 299

Interment (see Inhumation)

Intoxication, when permitted, 303, 533

Iphigenia, sacrifice of, 270

Iron, as prophylactic, 140

Islands of the Blest, 520

Itching of hand or foot, as omen, 330

Ixion, 242

Kalándae (festival of the Kalends of January), 221

Ker, 289 f.

Key laid on breast of corpse, 109, 112

Knife, black-handled, as charm, 20, 172

Kore (see also Persephone); as representative of the initiated, 578; story of, how represented on sepulchral monuments, 597 f.

Laceration of checks, etc., at funerals, 346

Lamentation, at funerals, 347

'Lame Demon,' The, 195

Lamia, ancient conception of, 175; of the Sea, 171; responsible for water-spouts, 172

Lamiae, 174-6; character of, 174; mated with genii, 276

Lamp, in Prytaneum, 513; 'The Unsleeping,' 508; thrown into grave at funeral, 512; why placed in graves, 505 f.

Language, as evidence of tradition, 35

Law governing evolution of Greek folklore, 206

Leaven, damaged by Evil Eye, 12

Left hand, unlucky, 312

Left to right, lucky direction, 312

Lenormant, on death conceived as a wedding, 601

Leprosy, penalty for eating pig's flesh, 87; why named by Aeschylus among penalties of blood-guilt, 453 f.

Lightning, as instrument of God's vengeance, 73; persons and objects struck by, 73

Literature, in relation to religion, 2

'Loosing,' 397; equivalent to both 'absolution' and 'dissolution,' 401

Love, as the bond of feeling between men and deities, 603; in relation to the doctrine of the Mysteries, 606

Love-charms, 18

Lucian, on offerings to gods, 335

Lycaean Zeus, 352

Lycanthropy, 208, 239 f.; in children, 380; infants liable to, 183

Lying-in-state, 497

Madness, 299; among penalties of blood-guilt, 454

Magic, 15-25; sympathetic, 16, 521

Maniotes, the, 441

Mankind, of same race as gods, 65, 604

Marriage and death, correlation of, 533

Marriage, arranged by Athenians between Athene and Demetrius Poliorcetes, 587 f.; as 'initiation,' 590; association of the Mysteries with, 590 f.; binding-spells to prevent consummation of, 19; mimetic, as culminating point of Mysteries, 589; mimetic, enacted in many cults, 577-587; of men with deities, 545 ff.; of men with deities, as a religious doctrine, 560 f.; of men with deities, as mystic doctrine (summary), 602 f.; the Sacred ([Greek: hieros gamos]), 591

Marriage-customs, compared with funeral-customs, 554 ff.; transferred to the funeral-rite, 560

Masks worn at popular festivals, 222 ff.

Matrimonial prospects, divination concerning, 303

Meat, excluded from funeral-repasts, 532

Medea, 463, 468

Medicine, popular, 21

Megrim, cure of, 23

Memorial-feasts, 486 ff.; dates of, 534; real purpose of, 534 f.; significance of the dates of, 539

Men elevated to rank of daemons, 211

Messages to the dead, 344 ff.

Metamorphosis (see Transformation)

Metempsychosis, Plato's theory of, 604 f.

Miastor, application of word, 463 f.; meaning of, 477 ff.; original meaning of word, 465

Miastores, 462 ff.

Midday, dangers of, 79

Miracles, expected by common-folk, 59; genuine, 60; sham, 60

Mirrors, superstition concerning, 10

'Mistress, The,' 89; marriage of, 97

'Mistress of the Earth and of the Sea,' 54, 91, 579

Monotheism, compared with polytheism, 40; no popular tendency towards, 3