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Index.

Marshall Bennetts ; Mortlock is- land ; New Guinea ; New Heb- rides ; Santa Cruz ; Solomon is- lands ; Torres islands ; Tro- briands) ; madness, treatment of, 160 ; Melanesians and Poly- nesians, by G. Brown, reviewed, 536-7 ; The Melanesians of British New Guinea, by C. G. Selig- mann, reviewed, 532-5

Melanges d'Histoire des Religions, by H. Hubert and M. Maus, re- viewed, 523-5

Members deceased, 1-3, 129, 269

Members elected, 1-3, 8, 129, 131, 265, 269

Members resigned, 1-2, 8, 129, 131, 269

Mending clothes : unlucky while wearing, Argyll, 89

Men's Houses : Assam, 298-9, 303 ; Carolines, 535-6

Menstruation, see Catamenia

Mercia : possessions of ealdorman, 27-S

Merfolk : County Clare, 183,

341-3

Merlav : marriage customs, 50

Merseburg : charm, 438

Metals in folklore, see under metals

Metamorphosis, see Shape-shifting

Meteors : omen from, Yorks, 227

Method and Minotaur, by A. Lang, 132-46

Methrd : belief about, 217

Mexico, see Mexico City ; Mon- terey ; Zacualco

Mexico City : Janvier's Legends of the City of Mexico reviewed, 537

Miana Chah : folk-medicine, 317-8

Michaelmas : phooka spoils black- berries, Clare, 481

Micklestane Moor, stones of, 154

Micronesia, see Caroline islands

Middlesex, see London

Mide Indians : migis, 149

Midsummer Night : burning wheel rolled, Glamorgan, 118

Milk : omen from spilling, Yorks, 225

Milpreve, Cornwall, 161

Miltown : mermaid, 342-3 ; peist, 478

Minehead : amulet, 7

Mining customs and beliefs : Derby- shire, 22, 38 ; Yorkshire, 226

Minos, King, see King Minos

Minotaur, The, 131-46

Miracles : of Decollati, Sicily, 171-

2, 174-5 Mirror, see Looking glass Mirzapur : folklore, 158 Mist spirits, Wales, 117-8 Mithras cult, 11 1-2 MjoUnir, Thor's hammer, 70-1 Mock mayor rites : Oxon, 32 Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion, by J. C. Lawson, reviewed, 529-32 Mohernagartan : meaning, 184 Mohernaglasha : meaning, 184 Mohinddinpur Thirana : folk-medi- cine, 314 Mole : feet as amulets, Sussex, 7 Monaster Letteragh : sunken mon- astery, 485 Monday : (_see also Plough Mon- day) ; in cult of Decollati, Sicily, 172 ; horn dance. Abbot's Brom- ley, 26 ; magic herb gathered, England, 377 Mongan, as cuckoo hero, 230-5 Monkey : (see also Wer-beasts) ; in

folk-tale, Africa, 362, 495-6 Monomotapa : executed criminals,

relics of, 179 Monte Amiata : folk-tales, 250,

349-50

Montelius, O. : The Sun-God's Axe and Thor's Hammer, 60-78 (plates)

Monterey : legends, 538

Montfort, Simon de, 176

Montgomery (Panjab) ; folk-medi- cine, 324, 333

Moon : friend of mankind, India, 126; male, Bantu, 255; new, rites at, Palestine, 289 ; origin of variations, India, 126 ; wife of sun, E. Africa, 255

Moon Creek : corroboree songs, 86-8

Moone : in Lorica, 437

Morning star : moon's wife, E. Africa, 255 ; origin of, India, 126

Morocco : Moorish Beliefs and Cus- toms, by E. Westermarck, 269

Morris dances, see Dances

Mortlock island : amulet, 3

Moses the Prophet : in charm, India, 506

Mosquito : in folk-tale, Togo,. 258

Mota : birth customs, 47-8 ; hus-