Index.
561
N. Africa, 158; Australia, 389- 96, 519-20 ; barring custom, Derbyshire, 38 ; Bedu, 270-82 ; bridal dress not seen by candle- light, Yorks, 226 ; bridegroom's parents turned out, Assam, 303 ; bride race, Alitemnian Libyans, 140 ; bride's home door shut dur- ing wedding, Yorks, 226 ; cake thrown over carriage, Yorks, 226 ; capture, Hausas, 202, Palestine, 272, 279 ; East Africa, 123 ; father's sister in, E. Africa, 123, Oceania, 43-4, 46, 50; in folk-tales, 139-40, Hausas, 201 ; gennas, Assam, 311 ; group inar- riage, Australia, 519-20; lucky dream, Assam, 312 ; marriage changes status, Assam, 304 ; Melanesia, 53-4 ; Nagas, Assam, 298 ; omens, see Omens ; Pales- tine, 265, 270-95 (plate) ; poly- gamy, Africa, 20, Bedu, 276-7, Palestine, 276-7, 282, 295 ; Poly- nesia, 58 ; protecting bridegroom, Deeside, 88 ; purchase, Africa, 353, Albania, 251, Palestine, 272, 276-9, 284-5 > Rajputs, 140 ; S. Nigeria, 394-5 ; tabu, Palestine, 285 ; Thor's hammer in, 71-2 ; Wales, 118 Marshall Bennetts : bones of dead,
534-5 Martyrs, Decollati as, Sicily, 175-6 Maryfort : changeling belief, 198-9 ;
death coach, 192-3 ; mysterious
death, 348-9 Maryland, see Baltimore Masai : folk-tale, 255 ; legend of
origin, 253-4 ; relation to Aki-
kuyu, 252-3 Mascots, sec amulets and talismans Masks : bull-headed, Crete, 133,
143-4; Congo, 2, 9; Egypt, 145;
Maoris, 142-3 ; oscilla, Italy, 142-3 Massim tribes : account of, 532 ;
funeral customs, 533 ; totemism,
532-3
Match : gift on child's first visit, Yorks, 225-6
Mattle Island, 183
May : (see also May Day) ; 29th, Garland Day, Castleton, 20-5
May Day : Beltine Blessing, Heb- rides, 435 ; Peak district, 21
Mayo : [see also Monaster Letter- agh) ; white paternoster, 442
Mayongkhong : birth gennas, 308
Maypole : Oxon, 32 ; in Peak dis- trict, 21, 24-5
Meath, see Kells
Medea legend, 139
Medical folklore : (see also Charms and spells) ;
diseases and injuries treated : — apoplexy, 467 ; boils, 317, 320- I ; brain diseases, 322 ; colic, 314; demon blight, 322; dog- bite, 315, 320-1 ; enlarged glands, 316, 321 ; eye diseases, 315 ; fevers, 315, 467 ; fits, 467 ; hernia, 467 ; hydrophobia, 85- 6, 315-7. 320, 325. 504; jaun- dice, 318, 322 ; legs, pains in, 314; leprosy, 322; nightblind- ness, 315 ; rheumatism, 314, 316-7, 326 ; ribs, pains in, 507 ; ringworm, 316, 319 ; sciatica, 317; sleeping sickness, 464; snakebite, 83, 85, 319, 323, 504 ; spleen, enlargement of, 84 ; stomache-ache, 83 ; sto- mach diseases, 314; swellings, 83-4, 86, 316, 320, 322 ; throat diseases, 313-4; tumours and ulcers, 314 ; urethra diseases, 317 ; warts, 320 ; wounds, 321 ; localities : — Africa, 160, 464, 466- 7 ; India, 83-6, 313-34. 504. 507 ; Wales, 118 ; remedies : — ak, 317-9 ; ashes, 316; bathing, 320, 322; bleed- ing, 319, 464; bread, 85, 315, 320 ; cowdung, 316, 318 ; dhdrek seeds, 326 ; flesh of animal causing disease, 160 ; gaur, 504 ; must not be paid for, ^3-4. 314-S. 318 ; pepper, 85, 464 ; purges, 464, 466 ; salt, 86, 325 ; scarifying, 464 ; spittle, 315, 318; sugar, 317, 320; tomb dust and earth etc., 319-22 ; touching, 313-5, 319- 22 ; wan leaves, 322 ; water, 85. 315. 319-22
Medicine-men, see Wizards
Meetings, 1-7, 129-31, 265-9
Meitheis : 297 ; girls' houses, 299 ; lingua franca, 310 ; men's houses, 299 ; tug-of-war, 300
Mekeo tribe : account of, 532 ; clan badges, 533
Melanesia : (see also Banks' is- lands ; Bismarck Archipelago ;
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