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
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