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525

deification of, of recent origin, 323 ;

the first, 294, 312 ; women as, 303

Miko, priestesses, (Shinto) Japan, 307-8

Milk bewitched away, 482, et seqq. ; drawn in pail thrown on grass, Hebrides, 270-1 ; unlucky to give to warrior on warpath, India, 434 ; virtues of, in Indian folktales, 419

Milker not to speak to owner of Evil Eye, 270

Milking or churning, wisdom of bless- ing, 270

Milk-hares, Denmark, 460

Milky Way, in Japanese myth, 304

Millers, mocked by Kalikazari, 176

Minch, 261

Miracles, as distinguished from Magic, in Indian folklore, 402 ; said to have befallen Europeans in India, 401 ; working of, India, 3967, 420

Mirrors in magic, 171, 230, sacred, 320

Mirza and Sahiban, Indian folktale,

437 Miscellanea, 114, 251, 362, 478 Misfortune considered as sin, India,

435-7

Mkhitar Gosh, fables of, 473

Moll Finney, in Warwickshire mum- ming plays, 188 et sqq.

Monday, lucky day" for changing house, Hebrides, 267 ; old German birth-augury for, 116

Monkey, the, African folklore, 29 1, why he sleeps in a tree, 292

Monotheism in Egypt, 231

Monsters, {see Kalikazari) the half- head, 171 ; seven-headed, 497 ; in Indian folklore, 413 ; in Japanese myth, 308

Moodgeegally Australian " first Man," 28

Moon, in creation myths, Japan and China, 302 ; private, of Indian Raja, 397 ;

Moon-light and star-light, effect on folk-medicine. Cos, 165

Morality, relative, of Australian natives, 6, 40-45, 55-57

More Australian Lej^eiidary Tales, collected from Various Tribes, by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker, with introduction by Andrew Lang, re- viewed by E. S. Hartland, 231

More notes from Cyprus, by F. O.

Harvey, 365 More, of the Sporades, 151 Moses in Arab folklore, 229, a giant,

230 and Sargon, Japanese parallel to

stories of, 300

supposed Jewish search for,

Greek Isles, 176

Mosquitos, 208

Mother's milk, Indian oath by, 409

Mott, Lewis F., The Nibelung Trea- sure in English, 477

Mountain ash {see Rowan) switches used for the cattle in Germany, 180

Mountain grouse, origin of, 213

Mountains, Kami in Japan, 317

Mudslide caused by Sqaktktquacit, 212

Mulkari, Australian god, attributes of, 33-4

MuUion, Cornwall, Christmas Mum- mers in, 351

Mungan-ngaur, Australian god equi- valent to "Our Father," 10, 21, 23, 49 attributes of, 37

Murring, tribe, Australia, myths of, 32

Music affecting lower animals, Indian folktales, 415

and songs of the Baronga,

221-2

Musical instruments, magical, Indian folktales, 420

Musk in love johiltre, 170

Myrtle in charms, 155

Myth its causes and definition of, 14, 15, 49, 53 ; displaced by fable in Armenia, 473; word as employed by Lang, 347

Myth, Ritual and Religion, by An- drew Lang, reviewed by E. S. Hartland, 346

Naga totems, 414

Nagni, characteristics of, Indian folk- tales, 424-5

Nahgul porcupine-like devil, Australia, origin of, 493

Nails, {see also Iron and Pins), for fixing up horseshoe against witches, 480 : found in skulls, Lincolnshire, 457 ; three-headed, for defence against witches, 483, 486-7

Namdcv and the dog, Indian tale, 410