GENERAL INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Lawson, J. C. (John Cuthbert)
Lamiae, 174–6;
character of, 174;
mated with genii, 276
Lamp, in Prytaneum, 513;
‘The Unsleeping,’ 508;
thrown into grave at funeral, 512;
why placed in graves, 505 f.
Language, as evidence of tradition, 35
Law governing evolution of Greek folklore, 206
Leaven, damaged by Evil Eye, 12
Left hand, unlucky, 312
Left to right, lucky direction, 312
Lenormant, on death conceived as a wedding, 601
Leprosy, penalty for eating pig’s flesh, 87;
why named by Aeschylus among penalties of blood-guilt, 453 f.
Lightning, as instrument of God’s vengeance, 73;
persons and objects struck by, 73
Literature, in relation to religion, 2
‘Loosing,’ 397;
equivalent to both ‘absolution’ and ‘dissolution,’ 401
Love, as the bond of feeling between men and deities, 603;
in relation to the doctrine of the Mysteries, 606
Love-charms, 18
Lucian, on offerings to gods, 335
Lycaean Zeus, 352
Lycanthropy, 208, 239 f.;
in children, 380;
infants liable to, 183
Lying-in-state, 497
Madness, 299;
among penalties of blood-guilt, 454
Magic, 15–25;
sympathetic, 16, 521
Maniotes, the, 441
Mankind, of same race as gods, 65, 604
Marriage and death, correlation of, 533
Marriage, arranged by Athenians between Athene and Demetrius Poliorcetes, 587 f.;
as ‘initiation,’ 590;
association of the Mysteries with, 590 f.;
binding-spells to prevent consummation of, 19;