Leprosy caused by eating a sacred animal, ii. 25 _sqq._
Letts, swinging among the, i. 107; their sacrifices to wolves, ii. 284
Libanius, on human life before Demeter, i. 43
Liber, Father, i. 12; Roman sacrifice of new wine to, ii. 133
License, periods of, ii. 62, 63, 66 _sqq._
Lightning, eating flesh of bullock that has been struck by, ii. 161; treatment of men, animals, and houses that have been struck by, 161
_Liknites_, epithet of Dionysus, i. 5, 27
Linus or Ailinus, i. 216, 257 _sq._, 263, 264
---- flesh or heart eaten to make eater brave, ii. 141, 142 _sq._, 147
Lions, men inspired by, ii. 213; respected, 228; souls of dead chiefs in, 287 _sq._
Lithuania, ii. 327; harvest customs in, i. 133, 145, 148; custom at threshing in, 223 _sq._; old Lithuanian ceremonies at eating the new corn, ii. 49 _sq._
Little Deer, chief of the deer tribe, ii. 241
Lityerses, i. 216 _sqq._; his relation to Attis, 255 _sq._
Liver of deer eaten, ii. 143; of dog eaten to acquire bravery, 145; of serpent eaten to acquire language of animals, 146; regarded as the seat of the soul, 147 _sq._; regarded as the seat of valour, 148; of brave men eaten, 151 _sq._; of bear, used as medicine, 187 _sq._
Loaf made of corn of last sheaf, i. 148 _sq._
Loaves in shape of a boar, i. 300; in human shape, ii. 48 _sq._, 94, 95
Lobeck, Chr. A., ii. 17 _n._ 5, 18 _n._ 1, 20, 21
Locusts, superstitious precautions against, ii. 276, 279, 281
Lothringen (Lorraine), harvest customs in, i. 223, 273, 288
Louisiana, festival of new corn in, ii. 77 _sqq._; Indians of, 239, 242
_Lumi lali_, consecrated rice-field, i. 93, 108
Lunar calendar corrected by observation of the Pleiades, i. 314 _sq._, 315 _sq._
---- months observed by savages, i. 117, 125
---- months of Greek calendar, i. 52 _sq._, 82
---- and solar time, attempts to harmonise, i. 80 _sq._
Lyceum or Place of Wolves at Athens, ii. 283, 284
Lycosura, in Arcadia, ii. 46; sanctuary of the two goddesses at, 339
Lycurgus, a Thracian king, his death, i. 24, 25
McTaggart, Dr. J. McT. Ellis, ii. 309 _n._ 1
Madagascar, ii. 116; crocodiles respected in, 214 _sq._; belief in transmigration among the tribes of, 289 _sq._
Madder-harvest, Dutch custom at, i. 231, 235 _sq._
Madi or Moru tribe of Central Africa, ii. 314