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Index.

March, H. CoUey, Dorsetshire Folk- lore collected in 1897., 478

Marchen, 45, 50

Marriage, customs and beliefs, African, traces of group-marriage among the Baronga, 225, customs in Zanzibar, 229 ; Australian, 8, 36, of the Arunta tribe, 235 ; English, doors locked during ceremony, 350, woman married in her shift, 476 : Hebridean, lucky day for, 267 ; Indian, 438, divorce in, 409-10, the swayamvara, 429 ; Japanese, ritual of, early, 300

group, tribal and anti-tribal, as

connected with water or fire cus- toms, 143

Married people, binding-spells for, 154, spells to unbind, 157, 159

Mars, 453

Marsh-ragwort, lucky against Evil Eye, Hebrides, 275

Martin Down, problem of its en- trenchment, 94-5

Martyrs, names of worn round neck,

154

Mary-beans, worn as charms, 262

May-Day, garlands and processions on at King's Lynn, 443 ; in con- nection with invisibility charm, Cos, 171 ; switching the cattle, Germany, 180

festivals, oak-leaves in, 102

Ladies at King's Lynn, (foot- note) by Dr. Plowright, {ill. ), 443

May-Pole dances, Dorsetshire, 481, 482

season for divination by the

Voice, 154

the Twenty-first, food carried

from house to house, Calymnos, 181

Mayo, County, folklore of, 122

Meave's army, Irish folklore, 218

Mecklenburg, cattle-switching on May Day, 180

Mediseval folk-poetry and modern, 98

Medicine, {sec Folk-medicine), gods of in Japan, 309

men, N. American Indian,

Japanese parallels, 307

Medical folklore, {see also Diseases), Ague, charms against, Greek Isles, 165, cure for, Suffolk, 365 ; beads or silk worn to keep off diseases, Greek Isles, 154: Burns and scalds

cures for, Kilkenny, 252 ; Con- sumption, snakeskin as cure for, Zanzibar, 231 ; Dislocation spell, 331 ; Erysipelas, charm against, 167 ; Fevers, bears' hairs and claws to prevent, 155 ; Headache to pre- vent, 154 ; King's Evil, toad cure for, 479-80 : Pleurisy, charm against, 331 ; Rheumatism, charm against, Greek Isles, 154, sacred tree, and passing through window in chapel to cure sick child, ib., 181 ; snakes to bring health, ib., 154 ; sudden feeling of sinking, cured by butter in warm milk, 280 ; Sunstroke, charm against, Greek Isles, 166-7 > Wart cure, 479 ; Whooping-cough cure, 488-9 Medical folklore from Cos, 165 Meetings, 58, 59, 60, 257, 294, 324,

383. 443> 444 Meleager, story of, 453 Melkarth of Tyre and parallel, 230 Members deceased, 58, 59, 63, 383,

443 elected, 58, 59, 63, 257, 294,

383. 443

first Honorary, elected, 67

resigned, 58, 59, 257, 294 3S3,

resignation withdrawn, 443 Mermen and maidens, Scandinavian

folklore, 460 Merseburger Gebet, in Finn Songs,

331 Messages from the gods, Japan,

307-8 Metals, {see Copper, Iron, Lead,

Nails, Pins), unlucky to use in

tilth on Friday, Hebrides, 268 Metempsychosis, in Indian folktales,

411, 412, in Scandinavian tales,

455

Metamorphosis, (^see also Shapeshift- ing,), in Indian folktales, 410

Mexican objects presented by Pro- fessor F. Starr, 66, exhibited and explained by him, 445

Michael, the Archangel, 162

Midnight Children, by F. Peacock,

"5 Midnight, the ghosts' hour, India,

395 . . visitors, rules for admitting,

Hebrides, 269 Midsummer, see St. John's Eve and

Day Mikados, the, of Japan, deified, 317