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373
Left-handed persons, fortunate to meet, except on Tuesday, 116
Leicester, wise woman of, indicates a thief in a trance, 244–5
Lending pins unlucky, 117
Lent marriages unlucky, 34
Lew Trenchard House: description of a painting preserved there, 277; haunted by a white lady known as Madame Gould, 330; her steps heard in the house; sometimes seen in Old Oak Avenue, 331; stands by a stream and combs her long hair; man broke his leg in escaping from her, 332; seen sitting in ploughed field three days after her burial, 333; appeared to old woman stealing apples; a carpenter lifted her coffin lid and was chased home, 334; seven persons tried to lay her but failed, ib.; the German story of Dame Holle similar; Madame Gould probably a Saxon goddess after undergoing anthropomorphosis and localization, 335
Linton Church built on knoll of hard sand; raised by two sisters in expiation of their brother’s crime in killing a priest, 297–8
Linton, Worm of; its den still called the Worm-hole; devoured the flocks and herds; coiled itself round an eminence now called Warmistoune or Wormington, 295; Laird of Lariston came to the rescue; thrust a peat dipped in scalding pitch down its throat; the Somerville family claim this champion and bear dragon as crest; description of worm by family chronicler; church has a sculptured representation of the combat, 296—perplexes the antiquaries, 297
Lions breed every seven years, and then pigs are still-born (Sussex), 24
Littledean, Laird of: chases a hare, and mutilates a witch of Maxton, 201
Littledean Tower haunted by old lady until her treasure was found and distributed, 323–4
Loaf: unlucky to turn one upside down—a ship will be wrecked; breaking bodes dissension, 120
Local Sprites, 246–280
Loch Monar, see Monar
Lockerby Penny: a piece of silver used as a charm for madness in cattle, 163
Locker’s Lyra Elegantiarum quoted, 118
Locksaint well in Skye: water drunk as a specific for certain complaints, 231
London, a case of divination by Bible and Key in, 234–5
Longstaffe’s Darlington quoted on the stang, 29
Looking-glass: a child under a year old must not look in it; Swedish maidens dare not use after dark or by candle light, 21
Louping-stone, see Stone
Lover, charms to bring, 172–6
Lucky glass: the last glass in bottle on New Year’s Eve or Day, 73
Ludlow, case of divination by Bible and key at, 235
“Luking” or playing at knor and spell, begins at Easter in West Hiding, 84
Lumbago, yarn charmed by wise woman used in Dundee to cure, 20
Lunacy, Burbeck’s bone a charm for, 165
Lupercalia: the customs passed into those of St. Valentine’s Day, 2
Lusmore, see Foxglove
