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Midsummer Eve : sowing hempseed in churchyard for love divination, Kennet Valley, 422

Midwinter : a " dead" month, Heb- rides, 40 ; no indigo dyeing at, Hebrides, 40

Milan : Dacius, bishop of, 214

Millet : bride stands in basket of, Berads, 235, or walks over baskets of, N. India, 244

Milne, F. A., Holiday Gleanings, n. Shropshire, 429-30 ; London Folk-Etymolog)', 203-4

Milya-uppa tribe, beliefs of, 18

Mincopies, not in primitive state, 383

Mingulay : charm in, 57

Minikooju tribe : group names, 388

Mirzapur : folk tales, 305-6

Mistletoe : rites not Irish, 325

Modern Commercial Aspect of an Ancient Superstition, The, by E. Lovett, 337, 340-7 (//are?)

Mohammed : Balochis claim descent from uncle of, 256

Mole : forefoot averts rheumatism, St. Briavel's, 173 ; once a fine lady, Kennet Valley, 422

Molucca bean : the nut of Mary, Hebrides, 39

Monday : {see also Easter Monday) ; evil spirit or polongfedon, Malays, 148 ; first in quarter, for casting frith, Hebrides, 47 ; flit with lamb on, Hebrides, 42 : sayings, Heb- rides, 41-2 ; unlucky day to begin on, Hebrides, 41 ; world ends on, Hebrides, 41

Monkey: monkey-dance, Malays, 136; monkey-song. Malay Penin., 161 ; village sobriquet, 385 ; worship of monkey-god, N.W. India, 1S8-9

Monmouthshire, see Whitebrook

Moon : ceremony after birth during eclipse of, Gurdaspur, 66 ; creator of living beings, Dieyeri tribe, 18 ; Madjuit - madjuit regulates tides by, Larrakia tribe, 18 ; new, ceremony for, Hebrides, 33 ; new, Perahera festival fixed by, Kandy, 77-9 ; Nganto-warrina who became the moon, C. Aus- tralian legend, 406-7 ; worship of, 218, 441

Mooniandi, devil, Ceylon, 277-8

Mooramoora, the creator, Dieyerie tribe, 18, 355, or creators, 403-4,

Mori en, A Metrical Romance rendered

into English prose from the Mcdicc-

val Dutch, by Miss J. L. Weston,

reviewed, 222-3

Morpeth : St. Robert of Newminster,

217 Moth : as omen, Hebrides, 50 Mothering Sunday, 107, 174 Mother-in-law, taboo of, 209 Mother-right : among Australian trijjes, 317-8, 351 ; discussed, 207, 445 ; survivals in tribes now inheriting totem in male line,

Mountains, i'^t' Ahnet mountains; and

Tirich Mir Mount Freeling, see Dieyerie tribe Mount Olivet, see Olivet, Mount Mount Remarkable, see Doora tribe Mourning customs, see Death and

funeral customs and beliefs Mouse : cat created to protect

Lazarus from, Outer Hebrides, 34 ;

as totem. New Caledonia, 353 ;

village sobriquet, 385-6 Mozaffargarh : name for child with

improperly shaped head, 68 Mule : village sobriquet, 385 Mummers, Christmas, see Christmas Mumming-Play and other Vestiges of

Folk-Drama in the British Isles,

The, by T. F. Ordish, 296-7 Mungerra tribe : fear of super- natural beings and dead, 19 Munsler : {see also Cork) ; folktales,

220 Mura Mura, see Mooramoora Murder : corpse bleeds if touched by

murderer, Kennet Valley, 422 ;

memorial stone bleeds if pin stuck

in, St. Briavel's, 171 ; weregild for,

Baloches, 271 Murrain, charm to avert, Hebrides,

41 Murray islands : Haddon's Head-

HiDiters, Black, White, and Brown

reviewed, 101-3 Murring tribes : Daramulun a lame

god, 88 Music : musical instruments, Balochi,

253-4, Indian, 254 Musiiuakie beadwork, 25-6 Musri, Exodus from, and not from

Egypt, 219 Mysterious Lake tribe : group names,

388 Mystic Rose, The : a Study of Primi-