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Marett, R. R., Pre-animistic Religion, 162-82 ; note by A. Lang, 318-9 ; reply by R. R. Marett, 319-21

Marlborough, mock combat, Nov. 5th, 21

Marmaro, seeOy\o

Marmots, caught for magic, Hungary,

255

Marriage customs and beliefs : Australian tribes, 69-77, 1^3 '■> Bella Coola Indians, 302-3 ; Cairo, 381 ; Cyprus, 120-5 ; dances, 27 ; India, 23-4, 219, 405; Llistnau (Tubingen), 220 ; Malay, 306-7 ; Isle of Riigen, 202-3 ; Thompson Indians, 397 ; Wyandot Indians, 192-3

Martinstide, pig hunted or baited, Wtirzburg, 251

Martlos, in Syriac charm, 151

Masai, ideas of deity, 169

Masks : Austrian " Hudlerlaufen " custom, 263 ; Bella Coola Indians, 304 ; clan festivals of N.W. Canada, 62 ; False Face dances of Iroquois, 191 ; hung on trees for fertility, 24 ; Iroquois medicine man, 192 ; witchcraft, connected with, 264-5

Mathura, birthplace of Krishna,

4-5. 7

Matriarchy, see Mother right

Max Miiller, Rt. Hon. F., obituary of, byW. Crooke, 459-60

May-Day, frog sacrificed, Bohemia, 253 ; garlands, Wilton and Salis- bury, 210 ; squirrel hunted, Durs- ley, 251

Measles from slain snake, Merthyr Tydvil, 321

Mech, Assam, ancestor descended in thunderbolt, 35

Mecklenburg, cow's ear cut, to ensure conception, 457 ; fly respected, 240 ; Haas' Riigensche Skizzen re- viewed by E. S. Hartland, 202-3 ! owl respected, 241 ; weasel killed for magic, Aug. -Sept., 255

Medical folklore : [see also Charms and spells) ; crossbill kept captive to attract diseases, Germany, 244 ; doctor's medicine regarded as charm, Wiltshire, 347 ; literary perpetuation of, 160-1

diseases and injuries treated : — •

child's fall, effects of, 447 ; epi- lepsy, 446 ; flatulency in babies,

445; hemicrania, 218; king's evil, 448 ; midge bites, 445 ; poisoning, 380; snake-bite, 121 ; somnambu- lism, 445 ; swollen uvula, 446-7 ; toothache, 445-6 ;

localities : — Bernese Oberland,

201-2 ; Cyprus, 121 ; Devon, 216- 17; Dorset, 112; Hebrides, 444- 48 ; Secunderabad (Deccan), 218

remedies : — angelica, 216 ; bap- tismal water, 445 ; bear's foot plant, 216 ; bread baked on Good Friday, 112; butter, 217; dried seed, 218 ; foxglove, 216-7 I Nile water, when smooth, 380 ; pepper, 447; pulling and tying hair, 446-7; umbilical cord, 445 ; water from cup rubbed with rhinoceros horn, 380 ; water from skull, 446 ; water from well, 445 ; water in which snake's horn has been placed, 121 ; water touched by seventh-son doctor, 448

Medusa form of child-stealing witch, 157-9

Meetings, 38, 39, 41, 182, 184, 225-6,

353 Meletia, in Slavonic charm, 140 Melitena, in Greek charm, 146-8 Melon : water-melon of life, in Greek

folktale, 342 ; why snakes like

water-melons, Cairene folktale, 377 Members deceased, 39, 43, 52-4, 182,

185-7, 226, 353 Members elected, 38, 39, 182, 184,

225, 226, 353 Members resigned, 38, 39, 182, 184,

225 Memory, by tradition alone, among

Mandans, 206-7 Mermaid, Cairene folktale of, 377 ;

in Western Scotland, 422 Merowing dynasty preserved by sanc- tity, 2S6-7 Meryy Suffolk, Master Archie, and

other Tales : a Book of Folklore, by

L. A. Fison, reviewed by E. S.

Hartland, 204-6 Merthyr Tydvil, measles from slain

snake, 321 Meteorites, sacred, 34-7 Metschin, drought caused by burial

of feather cushion with corpse, 437 Mexico, ancient, blue a sacred colour,

29 ; sacred stones, 335 Mexico, modern : (ysee also Charcas);

sacred dance, 27