Labyrinths in churches, 76; in the north of Europe, 76 _sq._ Lada, the funeral of, 261, 262 Laevinus, M. Valerius, 96 Laius and Oedipus, 193 “Lame reign,” 38 Lammas, the first of August, 99, 100, 101, 105 Lampson, M. W., 146 _n._1, 273 Lancelot constrained to be king, 120 _sq._, 135 Lang, Andrew, 130 _n._1 Laodicea in Syria, human sacrifices at, 166 _n._1 Laos, a province of Siam, 97 Laphystian Zeus, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165 Last sheaf called “the Dead One,” 254 Latin festival, the great (_Feriae Latinae_), 283 —— mode of reckoning intervals of time, 59 _n._1 Latins, sanctity of the woodpecker among the, 186 _n._4 Latinus, King, his disappearance, 283 Laughlan Islanders, 63 Laurel, sacred, guarded by a dragon, 79 _sq._; chewed by priestess of Apollo, 80 Laurel-Bearer at Thebes, 88 _sq._ —— -Bearing Apollo, 79 _n._3 —— -bearing, festival of the, at Thebes, 78 _sq._, 88 _sq._ —— wreath at Delphi and Thebes, 78 _sqq._ _Laws of Manu_, 188 Learchus, son of King Athamas, 161, 162 Lechrain, Burial of the Carnival in, 231 Leipsic, “Carrying out Death” at, 236 Lengua Indians, 11; of the Gran Chaco, 63; their practice of killing firstborn girls, 186; their custom of infanticide, 197 Lent, the fourth Sunday in, called Dead Sunday or Mid-Lent, 221, 222 _n._1, 233 _sqq._, 250, 255; personified by an actor or effigy, 226, 230; fifth Sunday in, 234, 239; third Sunday in, 238; Queen of, 244; symbolised by a seven-legged effigy, 244 _sq._ Leonidas, funeral games in his honour, 94 Leopard Societies of Western Africa, 83 Leopards related to royal family of Dahomey, 85 Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius, 96 Lepsius, R., 17 _n._2 Lerida in Catalonia, funeral of the Carnival at, 225 _sq._ Lerpiu, a spirit, 32 Letts, celebration of the summer solstice among the, 280 Leviathan, 106 _n._2 Liebrecht, F., 7 _n._2 Life, human, valued more highly by Europeans than by many other races, 135 _sq._ _Limu_, the Assyrian eponymate, 117 Lion, king represented with the body of a, 85 Lisiansky, U., 117 _sq._ “Little Easter Sunday,” 153, 154 _n._1 Logan, W., 49 Lolos, the, 65 Lombardy, the Day of the Old Wives in, 241 “Lord of the Heavenly Hosts,” 149, 150, 155, 156 Lostwithiel in Cornwall, temporary king at, 153 _sq._ Lous, a Babylonian month, 113, 116 Lucian, 42 Lug, legendary Irish hero, 99, 101 Lugnasad, the first of August, 101 Lunar and solar time, attempts to harmonise, 68 _sq._ Luschan, F. von, 85 _n._5, 86 _n._1 Lussac, Ash Wednesday at, 226 Lycaeus, Mount, Zeus on, 70; human sacrifices on, 163 Macahity, an annual festival in Hawaii, 117 Macassars of Celebes, their custom of swinging, 277 Macdonald, Rev. J., 183 _n._2 Maceboard, the, in the Isle of Man, 258 Macgregor, Sir William, 203 _n._2 Macha, Queen, 100 McLennan, J. F., 194 _n._1 Magic, the Age of, 2; homoeopathic or imitative, 283, 285