Index.
557
Megara : Athena at, 280
Meitheis : as overlords, 266 ; pro- verb, 474
Mekeo : fission of clans, 371-2, 374
Melanesia, see Banks' islands ; New Guinea
Melbury Osmund : mask, 302
Meleager, 285
Members dead, i, 7
Members elected, 1-2, 7, 129, 273-4, 401
Members, list of, ix-x
Members resigned, 1-2, 7, 129, 274, 401
Menelaos, 283-4
Menstruation, see Catamenia
Merdon : tenures, 295
Merfolk : Clare, 450 ; Wales, 512
Merrick, W. P. : Shilo : a Devon- shire Folk-Tale, 48-9
Meshed : Sykes' The Glory of the Shia World reviewed, 268-70
Metals in folklore, see under names
Metempsychosis, see Transmigra- tion beliefs
Meteors : wishing during flash of, Clare, 54
Mexcala : lance-head, 130
Mexico : (see also Chilpancingo ; Lake Texcuco ; Mexcala) ; ex- hibits, 130
Mianwali Folklore Notes, by A. J. O'Brien, 73-7
Michaelmas Day : feast, Clare, 207 ; hunting, Clare, 206
Middlesex, see London ; Mill Hill ; Teddington
Mid-Lent : wafers, Hants, 324-5
Midsummer : (see also Midsummer Day ; Midsummer Eve) ; sacrifice eaten, Morocco, 148 ; water cere- monies, Morocco, 158
Midsummer Day : Old, fair fixed by, Glos., 236; pattern, Clare,
333 Midsummer Eve : fire customs,
Bretagne, 513-4; Clare, 206-8;
love test, Hants, 325 Migration legends : Bushongo,
43-4. 45-6 Miletos : genealogy, 283 Millet : in folk-tale, Hausas, 469-
70 ; turned into grass by spirits,
A-Kamba, 257 Milk : (see also Churning customs
and beliefs); 'taking,' Clare,
339-40
Mill Hill : exhibits, 6
Milne, F. A. : Folk-Lore Society's
Place of Meeting, 362 Miltown Malbay : mermaid, 450 ;
' rounds,' 334; wells, 210-1, 213,
334 Mini : pilgrimage, 135, 182 Mining customs and beliefs :
Derbyshire, 241 ; Malays, 241 ;
songs, Hesse, 113 Minotaur legend, 229 Minsterley : virgins' garlands, 322,
496 Minutes of meetings, see Meetings Mirror, see Looking glass Mirzapur : folk-tale, 194 Mittagsfrau, Silesia, 248 Mitteilungen des Verbandes Ver-
eine fiir Volkskunde reviewed,
IIO-I
Mktiyu-tree, see Fig-tree
Mndsara : divination, 153 ; Great Feast, 147-8, 165
Mogogodo : notes on, 253
Moharram : loth day, almsgiving on, Morocco, 137, masquerades on, Algeria, 177-8, Morocco, 174- 6, 180 ; reserved sacrifice eaten on, Morocco, 147; 12th, masque- rade, Morocco, 175-6
Moirang : rain-stopping, 348-50
Mole : mole-catchers' appliances, Norfolk, I ; in proverb, Mani- pur, 474
Mole-cricket : Ascension Day cus- tom, Florence, 275
Molione, sons of, 284
Mombasa : origin of A-Kamba, 252
" Momia," a Ceremony of the Jews of Aleppo, by A. M. Spoer,
491-3
Monday : (see also Easter Monday ; Whit Monday) ; cattle cures on, Clare, 339; fair, Oxon., 40
Monkey : in folk-tales, Africa, 260, 467, 469, Assam, 521, Ceylon, 125, Santals, 197 ; in game, E, Indies, 240 ; man-monkey ghost. Staffs., 23 ; sacred, Manipur, 350
Montana, see Blackfeet Indians
Months : (see also under names) ; names, Greeks, 250
Moon: influence of, Glos., 238; new, — bowed to, Clare, 203, charm at, Oregon, 398, money turned at, Clare, 203, unlucky to see through glass, Clare, 203,
