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557

Megara : Athena at, 280

Meitheis : as overlords, 266 ; pro- verb, 474

Mekeo : fission of clans, 371-2, 374

Melanesia, see Banks' islands ; New Guinea

Melbury Osmund : mask, 302

Meleager, 285

Members dead, i, 7

Members elected, 1-2, 7, 129, 273-4, 401

Members, list of, ix-x

Members resigned, 1-2, 7, 129, 274, 401

Menelaos, 283-4

Menstruation, see Catamenia

Merdon : tenures, 295

Merfolk : Clare, 450 ; Wales, 512

Merrick, W. P. : Shilo : a Devon- shire Folk-Tale, 48-9

Meshed : Sykes' The Glory of the Shia World reviewed, 268-70

Metals in folklore, see under names

Metempsychosis, see Transmigra- tion beliefs

Meteors : wishing during flash of, Clare, 54

Mexcala : lance-head, 130

Mexico : (see also Chilpancingo ; Lake Texcuco ; Mexcala) ; ex- hibits, 130

Mianwali Folklore Notes, by A. J. O'Brien, 73-7

Michaelmas Day : feast, Clare, 207 ; hunting, Clare, 206

Middlesex, see London ; Mill Hill ; Teddington

Mid-Lent : wafers, Hants, 324-5

Midsummer : (see also Midsummer Day ; Midsummer Eve) ; sacrifice eaten, Morocco, 148 ; water cere- monies, Morocco, 158

Midsummer Day : Old, fair fixed by, Glos., 236; pattern, Clare,

333 Midsummer Eve : fire customs,

Bretagne, 513-4; Clare, 206-8;

love test, Hants, 325 Migration legends : Bushongo,

43-4. 45-6 Miletos : genealogy, 283 Millet : in folk-tale, Hausas, 469-

70 ; turned into grass by spirits,

A-Kamba, 257 Milk : (see also Churning customs

and beliefs); 'taking,' Clare,

339-40

Mill Hill : exhibits, 6

Milne, F. A. : Folk-Lore Society's

Place of Meeting, 362 Miltown Malbay : mermaid, 450 ;

' rounds,' 334; wells, 210-1, 213,

334 Mini : pilgrimage, 135, 182 Mining customs and beliefs :

Derbyshire, 241 ; Malays, 241 ;

songs, Hesse, 113 Minotaur legend, 229 Minsterley : virgins' garlands, 322,

496 Minutes of meetings, see Meetings Mirror, see Looking glass Mirzapur : folk-tale, 194 Mittagsfrau, Silesia, 248 Mitteilungen des Verbandes Ver-

eine fiir Volkskunde reviewed,

IIO-I

Mktiyu-tree, see Fig-tree

Mndsara : divination, 153 ; Great Feast, 147-8, 165

Mogogodo : notes on, 253

Moharram : loth day, almsgiving on, Morocco, 137, masquerades on, Algeria, 177-8, Morocco, 174- 6, 180 ; reserved sacrifice eaten on, Morocco, 147; 12th, masque- rade, Morocco, 175-6

Moirang : rain-stopping, 348-50

Mole : mole-catchers' appliances, Norfolk, I ; in proverb, Mani- pur, 474

Mole-cricket : Ascension Day cus- tom, Florence, 275

Molione, sons of, 284

Mombasa : origin of A-Kamba, 252

" Momia," a Ceremony of the Jews of Aleppo, by A. M. Spoer,

491-3

Monday : (see also Easter Monday ; Whit Monday) ; cattle cures on, Clare, 339; fair, Oxon., 40

Monkey : in folk-tales, Africa, 260, 467, 469, Assam, 521, Ceylon, 125, Santals, 197 ; in game, E, Indies, 240 ; man-monkey ghost. Staffs., 23 ; sacred, Manipur, 350

Montana, see Blackfeet Indians

Months : (see also under names) ; names, Greeks, 250

Moon: influence of, Glos., 238; new, — bowed to, Clare, 203, charm at, Oregon, 398, money turned at, Clare, 203, unlucky to see through glass, Clare, 203,