Love-charm of arrows, i. 14 Lovers leap over the Midsummer bonfires, i. 165, 166, 168, 174 Low Countries, the Yule log in the, i. 249 Lowell, Percival, his fire-walk, ii. 10 _n._ 1 Lübeck, church of St. Mary at, i. 100 Lucerne, Lenten fire-custom in the canton of, i. 118 _sq._; bathing at Midsummer in, ii. 30 Luchon, in the Pyrenees, serpents burnt alive at the Midsummer festival in, ii. 38 _sq._, 43 Lucian, on the Platonic doctrine of the soul, ii. 221 _n._ 1 Luck, leaping over the Midsummer fires for good, i. 171, 189 Luckiness of the right hand, i. 151 Lunar calendar of Mohammedans, i. 216 _sq._, 218 _sq._ Lungs or liver of bewitched animal burnt or boiled to compel the witch to appear, i. 321 _sq._ Lushais of Assam, sick children passed through a coil among the, ii. 185 _sq._ Lussac, in Poitou, Midsummer fires at, i. 191 Luther, Martin, burnt in effigy at Midsummer, i. 167, 172 _sq._, ii. 23 Luxemburg, “Burning the Witch” in, ii. 116 _Lythrum salicaria_, purple loosestrife, gathered at Midsummer, ii. 65 Mabuiag, seclusion of girls at puberty in, i. 36 _sq._; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, 78 _sq._; girls at puberty in, 92 _n._ 1; belief as to a species of mistletoe in, ii. 79 Mac Crauford, the great arch witch, i. 293 Macassar in Celebes, magical unguent in, i. 14 Macdonald, Rev. James, on the story of Headless Hugh, ii. 131 _n._ 1; on external soul in South Africa, 156 Macdonell, A. A., on Agni, ii. 296 McDougall, W., and C. Hose, on creeping through a cleft stick after a funeral, ii. 176 _n._ 1 Macedonia, Midsummer fires among the Greeks of, i. 212; bonfires on August 1st in, 220; need-fire among the Serbs of Western, 281; St. John’s flower at Midsummer in, ii. 50 Macedonian peasantry burn effigies of Judas at Easter, i. 131 McGregor, A. W., on the rite of new birth among the Akikuyu, ii. 263 Mackay, Alexander, on need-fire, i. 294 _sq._ Mackays, sept of the “descendants of the seal,” ii. 131 _sq._ Mackenzie, E., on need-fire, i. 288 Mackenzie, Sheriff David J., i. 268 _n._ 1 Macphail, John, on need-fire, i. 293 _sq._ Macusis of British Guiana, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 60 Madangs of Borneo, custom observed by them after a funeral, ii. 175 _sq._ Madern, parish of, Cornwall, holed stone in, ii. 187 Madonie Mountains, in Sicily, Midsummer fires on the, i. 210 Madras Presidency, the fire-walk in the, ii. 6 Madura, the Kappiliyans of, i. 69; the Parivarams of, 69 Maeseyck, processions with torches at, i. 107 _sq._ Magic, homoeopathic or imitative, i. 49, 133, 329, ii. 231, 287; dwindles into divination, i. 336; movement of thought from magic through religion to science, ii. 304 _sq._ Magic and ghosts, mugwort a protection against, ii. 59 —— and science, different views of natural order postulated by the two, ii. 305 _sq._ —— flowers of Midsummer Eve, ii. 45 _sqq._