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of culture, 30; racial affinities, 141

Melos: beetle belief, 218; healing well, 219

Members dead, 1, 7, 145, 273

Members elected, 1, 3, 4, 7, 145, 147, 273

Members knighted, 9, 15

Members, List of, i-xvii

Members resigned, 1-4, 7, 145

Memphis: Isis-Hathor, 276

Menhirs: Glos., 339-40

Mentone: cave interments, 28

Metals in folklore, see Silver

Metempsychosis, see Transmigration beliefs

Meteorites, 123

Methode der Ethnologie, by F. Graebner, reviewed, 502-4

Michaelmas: circuiting burial ground, Gaels, 500; hiring fair, Hunts, 352

Middlesex, see Hampstead

Mid-Lent Sunday, see Mothering Sunday

Mikirs: prejudice against cows, 284

Milk: tabooed, Africa and Asia, 283, 2S5-90; thunderbolts associated with, 123

Milky Way: origin of, Bushmen, 260

Millet: in funeral customs, Muppans, 42; as offering, Muppans, 42-3

Milne, F. A.: elected secretary, 6; notices by, 224, 479

Miltown: dolmens, 93

Min, god, Egypt, 71

Minchinhampton: calendar customs, 197, 201-2, 443-6, 450-1, 455-6; camp, 336-7; church removal, 337, 484-5; common lands, 337-8; cromlech, 338; first-foot, 443; folk-medicine, 339; folk-tale, 341; Guy, 418; hidden treasure, 341-2; menhirs, 339-40; town removal, 337; well, 335

Mirdita: communal justice, 225

Mirrors, see Looking glass

Mirzapur: fire custom, New Year, 425-6

Mists: charm against, Japan, 190

Mobangi river, see Congo Cannibals

Mock mayor: Glos., 447-9

Modern Folklore to Explain Structures of Forgotten Origin, by T. E. Lones, 485-6

Modern Greek Folk-Tales and Ancient Greek Mythology, by W. R. Halliday, 486-9

Modern Russian Popular Songs, by M. Trophimoff, 427-42

Mohammedanism: its civilisation, 396-7; magic adopted into, 399-400

Mohave-Apache: account of, 172; "dreamers," 172-4

Moirang: in folk-tale, 178

Mole: as amulet, 231

Moluccas: myths, 141

Monday: (see also Easter Monday); in unlucky deed, Ireland, 214

Mongolia: marriage, 105; Mongol objects to portraiture, 270

Monkey: Colobus M. Clan, Baganda, 134; as totem, India, 498

Monmouthshire, see Newport

Monsembe: Weeks' Among Congo Cannibals reviewed, 509-14

Mont Saint-Michel: folk-tales, 393

Montenegro: bridal customs, 228; fire put out symbolically, 224-5; mourning custom, 225

Monuments, see Churchyard

Moon: abode of good, Congo, 217; lunar mythology, Austronesia, 141-2, 520-1; new, customs at, Barra, 499, Quebec etc., 345; omens from, Manipur, 184; not pointed at, Japan, 195; rites to, Bushmen, 260

Moravia: folk-tale, 489

Morayshire, see Burghead

Morocco: Carnival, 397 400; Midsummer fires, 400; Moslem civilisation, 397

Morris-dancing, 385, 410-1

Morrison, Miss S.: Dooinney-Oie, the Night-Man: a Manx Folk-Tale, 342-5

Mortars, stone: tabooed, India, 498

Moses, death of: Palestine, 514

Mosquito: amulet against, Japan, 194

Moss: as amulet, 234

Moth: omen from, Borneo, 408; soul as, Celts, 125