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Index.
Lithuania, harvest festival, 260 ;
mummers, Dec. 24th, 263 Little Red Hen, 106, 316 Litton Cheney, Dorset, fear of over- looking, 112 Lizard, caught before St. George's
Day, 255 ; respected locally, 240 ;
transformed man, Germany, 236 Llanfechain, hare hunted, October,
250 Llanidloes, butterfly respected, 239 ;
white butterflies fed, coloured
killed, 244, 256 Llansainttfraid, raven respected, 241 Lleyn, chief with horse's ears at, 234 Loch Carloway (Lewis), well never
whitens linen, 446 Looking-glass not shown to Hindu
children, 218 Lord's Prayer, in charms against
disease, Hebrides, 449-50 Lost, remedies for being, Devon,
212 Loup-garou, Normandy, 426 Louth (Lin.), bumble-bee as famihar
spirit, 438 Low Countries, giants in pageants,
105 Lubbenau, snake respected, 241 Lucky and unlucky days and deeds,
Cairo, 380-1 ; Dorset, 112 ; Hebrides, 439 Lucky animals, 246-7 lAistnau, sunwise procession. 220 Lying-in women, charms to protect,
129-62 Lynar, counts of, respect snakes, 241
Mac-a-Rusgaich, his adventures as- cribed to Grettir, 407
MacPhail, M., Folklore from the Hebrides, IV., 439-50
Madaga sept of Kafirs, Hindu Kush, ancestors descended in thunderbolt,
35 Madras Government Museuvi Bul-
letin, vol. iii.. No. i, reviewed by
E. S. Hartland, 398-9 Madras, Reddi swinging rites, 23 ;
swing worshipped to avert cholera,
24 Maeren, sacrifices at, 280 ; twelve
priests at, 281 -2, 300 Maghs, tug-of-war between villages,
19
Magical formulas, divine names in,
135-7
Magical powers derived from animals,
245
Magpie, carried in procession, 258 ; caught before St. George's Day, 255 ; human being as, 236 ; human shape assumed, Perthshire, 236 ; killed, Erfurt, Good Friday, 256 ; respected locally, 241 ; shot to avert flies, Oldenburg, 255 ; trans- formed human being, 236
Mahabharata, early relations with Christianity implied in, 4 ; references to Krishna, 2-3, 5
Maize, Malay planting customs and beliefs, 306
Malabar, Nambutiris of, 399
Malagasy use of term "god," 169
Malas or pariahs and Hanuman, 218
Malay Alagic ; being an Introditction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula, by W. W. Skeat, reviewed by J. Abercomby, 305-8
Mallard, eaten, Jan. 14th, Oxford,
259 Malvitha, in Syriac charm, 15 1 Mamantios, in Greek charm, 148 Man, feels cold otherwise than
woman, Cairo, 381 Manaton, Devon, sunwise procession,
220 Mandans, traditional memory among,
206-7 Mandhata, black Lingam at, 33 Manitous, as totems, 59-64, 67-8 ;
strange fish as, 177 Manntan's porridge, made annually
from remnant of seed - corn,
Hebrides, 440 Manuscripts, suggested legacy to
Folk-Lore Society, 437 Maori behefs, 180 Marathi beliefs, 99 Marathi Proverbs, collected by Rev.
A. Manwaring, reviewed by W.
Crooke, 98-9 March, magpie shot, to avert flies,
Oldenburg, 255 ; raven taken for
medicine, Tirol, 255 ; ist, crow
shot to hang in cowhouse, Linda,
255 : hare taken, 255 March Amheirchion. lord of Castell
March, with horse's ears, 234 March, H. C. , Customs relating to
Iron, 105-6 ; Dorset Folklore,
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