Index.
525
deification of, of recent origin, 323 ;
the first, 294, 312 ; women as, 303
Miko, priestesses, (Shinto) Japan, 307-8
Milk bewitched away, 482, et seqq. ; drawn in pail thrown on grass, Hebrides, 270-1 ; unlucky to give to warrior on warpath, India, 434 ; virtues of, in Indian folktales, 419
Milker not to speak to owner of Evil Eye, 270
Milking or churning, wisdom of bless- ing, 270
Milk-hares, Denmark, 460
Milky Way, in Japanese myth, 304
Millers, mocked by Kalikazari, 176
Minch, 261
Miracles, as distinguished from Magic, in Indian folklore, 402 ; said to have befallen Europeans in India, 401 ; working of, India, 3967, 420
Mirrors in magic, 171, 230, sacred, 320
Mirza and Sahiban, Indian folktale,
437 Miscellanea, 114, 251, 362, 478 Misfortune considered as sin, India,
435-7
Mkhitar Gosh, fables of, 473
Moll Finney, in Warwickshire mum- ming plays, 188 et sqq.
Monday, lucky day" for changing house, Hebrides, 267 ; old German birth-augury for, 116
Monkey, the, African folklore, 29 1, why he sleeps in a tree, 292
Monotheism in Egypt, 231
Monsters, {see Kalikazari) the half- head, 171 ; seven-headed, 497 ; in Indian folklore, 413 ; in Japanese myth, 308
Moodgeegally Australian " first Man," 28
Moon, in creation myths, Japan and China, 302 ; private, of Indian Raja, 397 ;
Moon-light and star-light, effect on folk-medicine. Cos, 165
Morality, relative, of Australian natives, 6, 40-45, 55-57
More Australian Lej^eiidary Tales, collected from Various Tribes, by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker, with introduction by Andrew Lang, re- viewed by E. S. Hartland, 231
More notes from Cyprus, by F. O.
Harvey, 365 More, of the Sporades, 151 Moses in Arab folklore, 229, a giant,
230 and Sargon, Japanese parallel to
stories of, 300
supposed Jewish search for,
Greek Isles, 176
Mosquitos, 208
Mother's milk, Indian oath by, 409
Mott, Lewis F., The Nibelung Trea- sure in English, 477
Mountain ash {see Rowan) switches used for the cattle in Germany, 180
Mountain grouse, origin of, 213
Mountains, Kami in Japan, 317
Mudslide caused by Sqaktktquacit, 212
Mulkari, Australian god, attributes of, 33-4
MuUion, Cornwall, Christmas Mum- mers in, 351
Mungan-ngaur, Australian god equi- valent to "Our Father," 10, 21, 23, 49 attributes of, 37
Murring, tribe, Australia, myths of, 32
Music affecting lower animals, Indian folktales, 415
and songs of the Baronga,
221-2
Musical instruments, magical, Indian folktales, 420
Musk in love johiltre, 170
Myrtle in charms, 155
Myth its causes and definition of, 14, 15, 49, 53 ; displaced by fable in Armenia, 473; word as employed by Lang, 347
Myth, Ritual and Religion, by An- drew Lang, reviewed by E. S. Hartland, 346
Naga totems, 414
Nagni, characteristics of, Indian folk- tales, 424-5
Nahgul porcupine-like devil, Australia, origin of, 493
Nails, {see also Iron and Pins), for fixing up horseshoe against witches, 480 : found in skulls, Lincolnshire, 457 ; three-headed, for defence against witches, 483, 486-7
Namdcv and the dog, Indian tale, 410
