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Mezaiyyara, white lady who strangles solitary night travellers, Egypt,
Mice, precaution against, in house with newly born child, 221
Michael, the Archangel, in Rumania, 131-3, 138-9, 154, 201
Midas type of folktales, 234
Middlesex, see Barnet
Midge bites, baptismal water mixed with wine to protect against, Hebrides, 445
Midrasch Deuteronontinin Rabba Par. IX. und XI., 2-10, iteber den Tod Moses, by Dr. M. Rosenfeld, re- viewed by M. Gaster, 200-1
Midsummer fires, animals burnt in, 257 ; jumping over protects from fleas, 221
Miduch, in Syriac charm, 151
Midwinter festival of Iroquois, 190
Migraine, cure for, Secunderabad, 218
Miha, see Avezuha
Milestone, black, a Fiji idol, 33-4
Milk, of man-eating hind, in Greek folktale, 341-2 ; unlucky to drink on Wednesday, Cairo, 381
Millet cultivation, origin and decline of, 228
Millet grain. Devil changes into, 140
Milne, A. E., Customs in the London Building Trade, 457-8
Mining customs and beliefs, of Malays, 305, 308
Miscellanea, 107-26, 2II-2I, 325-47, 439-60
Moduga trees and Hanuman, 218
Mold, mounted man in golden armour buried at, 347
Mole, caught before St. George's Day, 255 ; dying in hand, gives power of healing, 245 ; if killed, must be buried, 245 ; tabooed at Chemnitz, 242 ; transformed human being, Germany, 236
Mole in boy, sign of good man, Cairo, 381
Monday, ploughing season never begins on, Hebrides, 439 ; Ru- manian charm pronounced on, 131 ; unlucky day to begin any- thing, Hebrides, 439
Monkeys originally men, Deccan, 218
Montaigne noire, weasel respected, 242
Montgomeryshire : [see also Llan- fechain ; Llanidloes ; and Pennant
Melangell) ; blackbird respected, 239 Month-names, by W. R. Baton, 209 Month rhymes, Coptic, 382-3 Moon, new, how to gain luck when first seen, Cairo, 380 ; Rumanian charm pronounced during decrease of, 131 ; in mythology of Thompson Indians, British Columbia, 398 More Snake Lore, by ]\I. Peacock,
321 Morgani, negro treasure-guardian in
Karnak folktale, 387 Morrha, see Gylo Moscow, pigeon respected, 241 Moses, legends of death of, 200-1 Mosques, Cairo, column licked to free from breast pains or diseases, 382 ; two columns closed on wicked man, 382 Mosquito, in Cairene folktale, 378 Moth : death's-head, death follows bringing caterpillar into house, Wiltshire, 344 ; fox, larva gives power of healing scalds and burns, Hebrides, 448 ; form of soul, 235 ; human being as, 236 Mother and child, divine, 4 Mother kinship characterises Kshat-
riya caste, 405 Mother-right in Australian tribes, 70-1, 73, 75 ; traces among Thompson Indians, British Co- lumbia, 397 ; in Wales, 401 Mouelta, in Syriac charm, 151 Mount of Olives, in Rumanian charm,
'32-3.
Mountains : Kilimanjaro the house of Ngai, Masai belief, 169 ; Korean beliefs about, 327-31 ; tops, tribal deities of Thompson Indians, British Columbia, 398 Mouse : foretells death, Wiltshire &c., 344 ; form of soul, 235 ; in Greek folktale, 244 ; kept captive for luck, Bohemia, 244 ; mouse-mask in Austrian " Hudlerlaufen " cus- tom, 263 ; white, respected, Schonhirde, 241 Mummers, Christmas, see Christmas Munda girls (India), hunt on festival,
20 Mungan-ngaur, Australian deity,
discussed, 173 Miinsterland, quail respected, 241 Murli-dhara, title of Krishna, 6 Musical Bow, The Natural History
