Index.
545
Assam, 394-5 ; hair cut during wax, Worcestershire, 342 ; Judas as man in the moon, 515; male, Eskimo &c. , 377 ; moon-raking taunt, Stafifordshire, 355 ; new, — knife in pocket lucky, and money turned, Worcestershire, 343 ; origin of, Eskimo, 377-8 ; a person, Andamans, 266 ; place of departed spirits, Lower Congo, 54, 59-60 ; planet Venus the wife of, Lower Congo, 477
Moon goddesses, 514
Moonraking type of folktales, 220, 355
Mop : thrown at hunter &c. for luck, Norway, 321
Morgan-le-Fay, in Hebrew Arthur romance, 281-2, 498
Morocco, see Mogador
Morris dances, see Dances
Mortar : in folk-tale, Assam, 389 ; mortar stone in New Year custom, Fordyce, 482
Mothering Sunday : Cheshire, 206 ; simnel cakes, Bury, 203
Motherin-law : tabu on meeting &c., Lower Congo, 310
Mother-of-pearl shell, see j9a-shell
Mother-right : child belongs to mother's family, Lower Congo, 33
Mountains : {.see also zinder names) ; goddesses of, Japan, 251-2; myth of origin, Australia, 341
Mount Barker : folklore, 340-2
Mount Johnston : myth of origin,
341 Mouse : charm against, Japan, 384 ;
holes the exits of ghosts. Lower
Congo, 476 Moye tribe : fetish figures, 312 Mpalabala : 45 ; nkimba society, 198 Mud-fish : origin of man, Greeks,
424 Mummers : Cheshire, 206-7 '■> New
Year's Day, Scotland, 481-2 Murder : superstition discourages,
242 ; turf sinks on murderer's
grave, Staffordshire, 220 Murderer : blasts by glance, Norway,
336 ; not sold as slave, Lower
Congo, 47 Murgo5i, Mrs A. : Roumanian
Easter Eggs, 295-303 (plates) Murrain, cure for, Ireland, 96 Murray river : linguistic relations with
Papuans, 94-5 Musgjerd : tale of strength-belt, 335
Musical instruments : (see also Drum ;
Flute ; and Marimba) ; Lower
Congo, 1 98 (plate) Mutton, see Sheep Mvita, see Mombasa Myers, C. S. : review by, — Sharp's
English Folk- Song, 97-101
Naga Hills District : tree burial, 132-3
Nagas : (see also Kabul Nagas ; iVIaikel ; Mao Nagas ; a«^/Quoireng Nagas) ; bachelors' hall, 420 ; folk- tales, 419 ; head-hunting, 132-43 (plate) ; omens from buffalo, I40 ; origin from cave, 417
Nail fetishes : Congo, 3, 36
Nails, human : cut. Good Friday, Worcestershire, 346
Names : certain names necessitate dances &c. , Lower Congo, 465-6; in charm for whooping cough, Gainford, 72 ; of dead not spoken, Lower Congo, 61 ; given after circumcision. Lower Congo, 305 ; of husband tabued to wife. Lower Congo, 310; named children not fed with corn polluted by goat, Nandi, 247 ; new names given to ndembo initiates. Lower Congo, 195 ; surnames not understood, Norway, 316 : unlucky to repeat for brothers &c., Worcestershire, 346
A^andi, The : their Language and Folklore, by A. C. Hollis, reviewed, 246-8
Nanga cult, Fiji, 253-4
Nantes, see La Ballerie
Naples: amulets, 70- 1 (plate)
Narwhal : in myth, Eskimo, 378
Natiirsagen : Eine sammhing natur- deutender sageii ntdrcheyifabeln und legenden, by O. Dahnhardt, re- viewed, 514-5
Ndembo society. Lower Congo, 189- 198, 307
Needfire against witchcraft, Norway, 322-3
Needle : in blood-brotherhood cere- mony. Lower Congo, 38 ; in game, Lower Congo, 458-9
Nesja, folklore from, 314 (plate), 321, 322-3, 330-2, 336
Neville's Cross : in charm, Durham,
New Guinea : (see also Papuans) ; Dukduk society, 104
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