472
Index.
legend, 412-3 ; village sobriquet, Angouleme, 384
Lochlomond : sheep dung drunk, 75
London : {see also Chelsea : Fulham ; Hammersmith ; and Putney) ; cow- dung poultices, 73-4 ; patients should not be washed, 72-3 ; St. Erkenwald, 214
London Folk-Etymolog}', by F. A. jNIilne, 203-4
Long Compton : in folklore of Roll- right Stones, 292-3 ; witch's blood drawn, 290
Long Ju-ju," 166-70, {plate)
Looe : trees whisper future on 21st of month, 429
Lost, charm against being, Hebrides,
37
Lots, casting : Baloches, 264
Love divination, see Divination
Love songs, see Folk songs
Lovett, E., The Modern Commercial Aspect of an Ancient Superstition, 337j 340-7, (plate) ; Tallies and their Survivals, I ; The Vessel Cup,
3. 94-5 Lucca : Frigdianus, bishop of, 216 Lucky and unlucky days and deeds :
Hebrides, 29, 37, 41-2, 48, Kennet
Valley, 425 ; at marriage, 241 : St.
Briavel's, 172 ; Shropshire, 430 Ludlow : 'heaving' custom, 247-8 Lunds, Balochi tribe, 258 Lupercalia : barren women touched
at, 25 Lustrations, ceremonial : in ' lifting '
custom, 252, Ludlow, 247-8
Mabinogion, The, by L B. John, re- viewed, 330-1
Mabuiag Island : totemisni, 102-3
Macintosh, cat good omen for, Heb- rides, 49
Mackenzie, yellow horse omen of, Hebrides, 49
Macpherson, cat good omen for, Heb- rides, 49
Macumba country, in Yaurorka le- gend, 411
Macumba river, in Wonkanguru and Urabunna legend, 413-4
Madagascar : dreams from good spirits. 22 ; palanquin bearer in- jured by woman stepping over pole, 237-S
Mad dogs, cakes for, Germany, 96
Madjuit-madjuit, regulator of tides, Larrakia tribe, 18
Madonna, The, see Virgin Mary
Madras : fire-walking, 89-90
Madras Presidency, see Allandur ; Ganjam ; Godavari ; Khonds ; Ma- dras ; Nellore ; North Arcot ; Sa- lem : and Tinnevelly
Madu Sami, road or river god, Cey- lon, 77, 277-8
Marchen, see Folktales
Magh, month of : firstborn not mar- ried in, nor mother eats first-fruits in, Punjab, 278
Magic : {see also Amulets and talis- mans ; Charms and spells ; Incan- tations ; rt«^ Witchcraft) ; firstborn has magical powers, Punjab, 278 ; among Hebrews, 218 ; among Kur- nai tribes, 19-20 ; among Malays, 136, 145-54, 157-S, 163-4; nigro- mancy taught at Toledo by devil, 120 ; " pointing the bone," Central Australia, 406 ; as related to religion, J. G. Frazer's views on, i4-6,_ 315, 323 ; rice spoon used in, Malays, 164 ; spirit invoked, lying on tomb, Touaregs, 285
Magic squares in Eastern charms, 190
Magpie : omens from, St. Briavel's, 171
Mahabharata : father-and-son com- bat, 445
Mailros : St. Wallevus, 217
Maintz : St. Boniface, 216
Mairs : firstborn son sacrificed, 63
Major, A. F. : short notices by, Clark Hall's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, 223 ; Faraday's The Edda : I. The Divine Mythology of the North, 223-4
Making of Religion, The, discussed by E. W. Brabrook, 16-23
Malabar : fire-walking, 90 ; marriage rites, Namburis, 245
Malacca cane, ceremonies by col- lectors of, Malays, 163
Malay archipelago : prophetic dream, 22
Malay Peninsula : (^see also Besisi ; Jakuns ; Kedah : Kelantan ; Pa- tani ; Penang ; Perak ; Selangor ; rt;/(/Trengganu) ; collection of folk- lore, 307-10 ; crocodiles as kinsmen, 366; spiritualism, 115, 134-65
