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Kirby (W. F.): on The Forbidden Doors of the thousand and one nights, 112-124

Knife, Cornish proverb on the, 195

Knockers, fairies known as, 188

Knuckle-bones carried as charms, 201

Kulu district, Himalayas, dance by men of, 277-279; similar to those of Greece, 294

Labourers, Greek festivals instituted for benefit of, 292

Ladakh, dances of tribes of, 281-283; similar to those of Greece, 294-295; Spain, 298

Ladder, witches', found in Somersetshire, 1-5, 81-84, 257-259

"Ladies trees" used as protection from fire, Cornwall, 220

"Lady Queen Anne," Cornish children's game, 52

Land tenures, Cornish, 20-21; in Wiltshire, 303

Lang (A.): The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, reviewed, 268-270

Lapwing, red wattle, legend of, 353

Launceston Castle, local name for, 199

Lawyers, story of cuteness of, 111

Leedstown, Cornwall, ghost story at, 20

"Leep the long mare," Cornish boys' game, 60

Legends, Chinese, 124-127; Cornish, 14-45; Irish, 66-68

———— of King Arthur in Cornwall, 87

———— of Buccaboo, Cornish storm god, 106-107

———— of giants, Cornish, 88

———— of mermaid in Cornwall, 98

———— of pixies in Cornwall, 181

———— of spider and Christ, 89

Leland (C. G.): on The witches' ladder, 257-259

Lemon, remedy against vomiting among the Japanese, 155

Letter, superstitions about, 220

Lewis (J. P.): on The evil eye and the evil tongue, 261; on Building superstitions, 260

"Libbety, libbety, libbety-lat," Cornish children's game, 59

Liège Cathedral, dance in, 303

"Little people," race of, in Friesland folk-tale, 336

Liver complaints, Irish cures for, 12, 13

"Looby looby light," children's game called, 326

London, fortune telling in, 72

Luck, omens of, 191, 192, 193, 195, 218, 316

"Lucky bird," custom in Yorkshire, called, 74-75

Lung diseases, Irish plant cures for, 12

Lyonnesse, Cornwall, tradition of flood at, 94-95


Magical ring worn by witches, 196

"Malaga rasins," Cornish children's game, 51

Malay folk-lore, 328-331

"Man who never laughed," Forbidden Door story, 113, 115

Manorial custom at Penzance, 111

Mansfield (M. L): on Chinese legends and superstitions, 124-129

Marazion, apparition at, 15; proverb connected with mayor, 15

Marbles, Cornish boys' games played with, 59, 60

Marjoram, cure for indigestion, 13

Marriage by capture, dance typical of, among hill tribes of Assam, 273-276; see "Capture"

Marriage customs, American children's games connected with, 134-139; Chinese, 226-235; Cornish, at St. Keyne's Well, 93, 215-217

Marriages, superstitions connected with, Cornwall, 210; customs, 215-217; in Culdaff, Donegal, 332; in Sligo, 334

Marrow-bone, payment of, by butchers to bailiff of the manor, 111

Marshmallow, cure for gravel, 12

Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess, on Negro Songs from Barbadoes, 5-10

Martinique, apparition of Père Labat in, 316

Masks worn by dancers in Ladakh valley, 283

May, superstitions connected with, 210-212

May-pole dance, native Indian dance resembling, 247-248

Mayor and corporation of Penzance, custom of, 108

Meadow-sweet, cure for scrofula, 13

Medical plants believed in by Irish peasantry, 11-13

Merlin's Car, rock called, 106

Mermaids, belief in, in Cornwall, 180; by Indians of Guiana, 319

———— carving of, in Zennor Church, 98

Mice, Cornish superstition about, 217