Knife, divination by, i. 241; soul of child bound up with, ii. 157; “Darding Knife,” honorific totem of the Carrier Indians, 273, 274 _sq._ _Kobong_, totem, in Western Australia, ii. 219 _sq._ Köhler, Joh., lights need-fire and burnt as a witch, i. 270 _sq._ Köhler, Reinhold, on the external soul in folk-tales, ii. 97 _n._ Kolelo, in East Africa, ii. 313 Konz on the Moselle, custom of rolling a burning wheel down hill at, i. 118, 163 _sq._, 337 _sq._ Kooboos of Sumatra, their theory of the afterbirth and navel-string, ii. 162 _n._ 2 Koppenwal, church of St. Corona at, ii. 188 _sq._ Koran, passage of, used as a charm, i. 18 Koryaks, their festivals of the dead and subsequent purification, ii. 178; their custom in time of pestilence, 179 Koshchei the Deathless, Russian story of, ii. 108 _sqq._ Koskimo Indians of British Columbia, use of bull-roarers among the, ii. 229 _n._ Kreemer, J., on the Looboos of Sumatra, ii. 182 _sq._ Kroeber, A. L., quoted, i. 41 _sq._ Kruijt, A. C., on Toradja custom as to the working of iron, ii. 154 _n._ 3 _Kuga_, an evil spirit, i. 282 Kuhn, Adalbert, on need-fire, i. 273; on Midsummer fire, 335; on the divining-rod, ii. 67 Kühnau, R., on precautions against witches in Silesia, ii. 20 _n._ Kukunjevac, in Slavonia, need-fire at, i. 282 Kulin nation of South-Eastern Australia, sex totems in the, ii. 216 —— tribe of Victoria, ii. 226 _n._ 1 Kumaon, in North-West India, the Holi festival in, ii. 2 Kupalo, image of, burnt or thrown into stream on St. John’s Night, i. 176; effigy of, carried across fire and thrown into water, ii. 5, 23 Kupalo’s Night, Midsummer Eve, i. 175, 176 Kurnai, a tribe of Gippsland, sex totems and fights concerning them among the, ii. 215 _n._ 1, 216 Küstendil, in Bulgaria, need-fire at, i. 281 Kwakiutl, Indians of British Columbia, their story of an ogress whose life was in a hemlock branch, ii. 152; pass through a hemlock ring in time of epidemic, 186 Kylenagranagh, the hill of, in Ireland, i. 324 La Manche, in Normandy, Lenten fire-custom in, i. 115 La Paz, in Bolivia, Midsummer fires at, i. 213; Midsummer flowers at, ii. 50 _sq._ Lacaune, belief as to mistletoe at, ii. 83 Lachlan River, in Australia, ii. 233 Lachlins of Rum and deer, superstition concerning, ii. 284 Ladyday, ii. 282 Lahn, the Yule log in the valley of the, i. 248 Lamb burnt alive to save the rest of the flock, i. 301 Lammas, the first of August, superstitious practice at, i. 98 _n._ 1 _Lamoa_, gods in Poso, ii. 154 Lancashire, Hallowe’en customs in, i. 244 _sq._ Landak, district of Dutch Borneo, i. 5, ii. 164 Lanercost, Chronicle of, i. 286 Lang, Andrew, on the fire-walk, ii. 2 _n._ 1; on the bull-roarer, 228 _n._ 2 Language of animals learned by means of fern-seed, ii. 66 _n._ _L’ánṣăra_ (_El Anṣarah_), Midsummer Day in North Africa, i. 213, 214 _n._ Lanyon, in Cornwall, holed stone near, ii. 187