Lightning and thunder, the Yule log a protection against, i. 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264; mountain arnica a protection against, ii. 57 _sq._ Lillooet Indians of British Columbia, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 52 _sq._ Limburg, processions, with torches in, i. 107 _sq._; Midsummer fires in, 194; the Yule log in, 249 Lime-kiln in divination, i. 235, 243 —— -tree, the bloom of the, gathered at Midsummer, ii. 49; mistletoe on limes, 315, 316 —— -wood used to kindle need-fire, i. 281, 283, 286 Lincolnshire, the Yule log in, i. 257; witches as cats and hares in, 318; calf buried to stop a murrain in, 326; mistletoe a remedy for epilepsy and St. Vitus’s dance in, ii. 83 _sq._ Lindenbrog, on need-fire, i. 335 _n._ 1 Lint seed, divination by, i. 235 Liongo, an African Samson, ii. 314 Lion, the sun in the sign of the, ii. 66 _sq._ Lismore, witch as hare in, i. 316 _sq._ Lithuania, Midsummer fires in, i. 176; sanctuary at Romove in, ii. 91 Lithuanians, their custom before first ploughing in spring, i. 18; their worship of the oak, ii. 89; their story of the external soul, 113 _sqq._ Lives of a family bound up with a fish, ii. 200; with a cat, 150 _sq._ Living fire made by friction of wood, i. 220; the need-fire, 281, 286 Livonia, story of a were-wolf in, i. 308 Livonians cull simples on Midsummer Day, ii. 49 _sq._ Lizard, external soul in, ii. 199 _n._ 1; sex totem in the Port Lincoln tribe of South Australia, 216; said to have divided the sexes in the human species, 216 Loaf thrown into river Neckar on St. John’s Day, ii. 28 Loango, rule as to infants in, i. 5; girls secluded at puberty in, 22 Loch Katrine, i. 231 —— Tay, i. 232 Lock and key in a charm, i. 283 Locks opened by springwort, ii. 70; and by the white flower of chicory, 71; mistletoe a master-key to open all, 85 Locust, a Batta totem, ii. 223 Log, the Yule, i. 247 _sqq._ Logierait, in Perthshire, Beltane festival in, i. 152 _sq._; Hallowe’en fires in, 231 _sq._ Loiret, Lenten fires in the department of, i. 114 Loki and Balder, i. 101 _sq._ Lokoja on the Niger, ii. 209 Lombardy, belief as to the “oil of St. John” on St. John’s Morning in, ii. 82 _sq._ London, the immortal girl of, i. 99; Midsummer fires in, 196 _sq._ Longridge Fell, _leeting_ the witches at, i. 245 Looboos of Sumatra creep through a cleft rattan to escape a demon, ii. 182 _sq._ Looking at bonfires through mugwort a protection against headache and sore eyes, ii. 59 _Loranthus europaeus_, a species of mistletoe, ii. 315, 317 _sqq._; called “oak mistletoe” (_visco quercino_) in Italy, 317 —— _vestitus_, in India, ii. 317 Lord of the Wells at Midsummer, ii. 28 Lorne, the Beltane cake in, i. 149 Lorraine, Midsummer fires in, i. 169; the Yule log in, 253; Midsummer customs in, ii. 47 Loudoun, in Ayrshire, i. 207 Louis XIV. at Midsummer bonfire in Paris, ii. 39