Komatis of Mysore, their worship of serpents, i. 81 _sq._
Koniags of Alaska, their magical uses of the bodies of the dead, ii. 106
Konkaus of California, their dance of the dead, ii. 53
_Kosio_, a dedicated person, i. 65, 66, 68
Kosti, in Thrace, carnival custom at, ii. 99 _sq._
Kotas, a tribe of Southern India, their priests not allowed to be widowers, ii. 230
Kretschmer, Professor P., on native population of Cyprus, i. 145 _n._ 3; on Cybele and Attis, 287 _n._ 2
Kubary, J., on the system of mother-kin among the Pelew Islanders, ii. 204 _sqq._
Kuki-Lushai, men dressed as women to deceive dangerous ghosts or spirits among the, ii. 263
Kupalo, figure of, passed across fire at Midsummer, i. 250 _sq._; a deity of vegetation, 253
Kupole's festival at Midsummer in Prussia, i. 253
Laconia, subject to earthquakes, i. 203 _n._ 2
Lactantius, on the rites of Osiris, ii. 85
Lagrange, Father M. J., on the mourning for Adonis as a harvest rite, i. 231
Laguna, Pueblo village of New Mexico, ii. 54 _n._ 2
Lamentations of Egyptian reapers, i. 232, ii. 45; of the savage for the animals and plants which he eats, 43 _sq._; of Cherokee Indians "after the first working of the crop," 47; of the Karok Indians at cutting sacred wood, 47 _sq._
Laments for Tammuz, i. 9 _sq._; for dead kings of Judah, 20; for Osiris, ii. 12
Lampblack used to avert the evil eye, ii. 261
Lamps lighted to show the dead the way, ii. 51 _sq._; for the use of ghosts at the feast of All Souls, 72, 73
Lane, E. W., on the rise of the Nile, ii. 31 _n._ 1
Lanzone, R. V., on the rites of Osiris, ii. 87 _n._ 5
Larnax Lapethus in Cyprus, Melcarth worshipped at, i. 117
Larrekiya, Australian tribe, their belief in conception without cohabitation, i. 103
Lateran Museum, statue of Attis in the, i. 279
Latham, R. G., on succession to husband's property among the Kocchs, ii. 215 _n._ 2
Laurel, gold wreath of, worn by priest of Hercules, i. 143; in Greek purificatory rites, ii. 240 _sq._
---- -bearing, a festival at Thebes, in Boeotia, ii. 241
Leake, W. M., on flowers in Asia Minor, i. 187 _n._ 6
Leaping over Midsummer fires to make hemp or flax grow tall, i. 251
Leaves and flowers as talismans, ii. 242 _sq._
Lebanon, the forests of Mount, i. 14; Aphrodite of the, 30; Baal of the, 32; the charm of the, 235