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Index.
Marshall Bennetts ; Mortlock is- land ; New Guinea ; New Heb- rides ; Santa Cruz ; Solomon is- lands ; Torres islands ; Tro- briands) ; madness, treatment of, 160 ; Melanesians and Poly- nesians, by G. Brown, reviewed, 536-7 ; The Melanesians of British New Guinea, by C. G. Selig- mann, reviewed, 532-5
Melanges d'Histoire des Religions, by H. Hubert and M. Maus, re- viewed, 523-5
Members deceased, 1-3, 129, 269
Members elected, 1-3, 8, 129, 131, 265, 269
Members resigned, 1-2, 8, 129, 131, 269
Mending clothes : unlucky while wearing, Argyll, 89
Men's Houses : Assam, 298-9, 303 ; Carolines, 535-6
Menstruation, see Catamenia
Mercia : possessions of ealdorman, 27-S
Merfolk : County Clare, 183,
341-3
Merlav : marriage customs, 50
Merseburg : charm, 438
Metals in folklore, see under metals
Metamorphosis, see Shape-shifting
Meteors : omen from, Yorks, 227
Method and Minotaur, by A. Lang, 132-46
Methrd : belief about, 217
Mexico, see Mexico City ; Mon- terey ; Zacualco
Mexico City : Janvier's Legends of the City of Mexico reviewed, 537
Miana Chah : folk-medicine, 317-8
Michaelmas : phooka spoils black- berries, Clare, 481
Micklestane Moor, stones of, 154
Micronesia, see Caroline islands
Middlesex, see London
Mide Indians : migis, 149
Midsummer Night : burning wheel rolled, Glamorgan, 118
Milk : omen from spilling, Yorks, 225
Milpreve, Cornwall, 161
Miltown : mermaid, 342-3 ; peist, 478
Minehead : amulet, 7
Mining customs and beliefs : Derby- shire, 22, 38 ; Yorkshire, 226
Minos, King, see King Minos
Minotaur, The, 131-46
Miracles : of Decollati, Sicily, 171-
2, 174-5 Mirror, see Looking glass Mirzapur : folklore, 158 Mist spirits, Wales, 117-8 Mithras cult, 11 1-2 MjoUnir, Thor's hammer, 70-1 Mock mayor rites : Oxon, 32 Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion, by J. C. Lawson, reviewed, 529-32 Mohernagartan : meaning, 184 Mohernaglasha : meaning, 184 Mohinddinpur Thirana : folk-medi- cine, 314 Mole : feet as amulets, Sussex, 7 Monaster Letteragh : sunken mon- astery, 485 Monday : (_see also Plough Mon- day) ; in cult of Decollati, Sicily, 172 ; horn dance. Abbot's Brom- ley, 26 ; magic herb gathered, England, 377 Mongan, as cuckoo hero, 230-5 Monkey : (see also Wer-beasts) ; in
folk-tale, Africa, 362, 495-6 Monomotapa : executed criminals,
relics of, 179 Monte Amiata : folk-tales, 250,
349-50
Montelius, O. : The Sun-God's Axe and Thor's Hammer, 60-78 (plates)
Monterey : legends, 538
Montfort, Simon de, 176
Montgomery (Panjab) ; folk-medi- cine, 324, 333
Moon : friend of mankind, India, 126; male, Bantu, 255; new, rites at, Palestine, 289 ; origin of variations, India, 126 ; wife of sun, E. Africa, 255
Moon Creek : corroboree songs, 86-8
Moone : in Lorica, 437
Morning star : moon's wife, E. Africa, 255 ; origin of, India, 126
Morocco : Moorish Beliefs and Cus- toms, by E. Westermarck, 269
Morris dances, see Dances
Mortlock island : amulet, 3
Moses the Prophet : in charm, India, 506
Mosquito : in folk-tale, Togo,. 258
Mota : birth customs, 47-8 ; hus-
