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Mid-Lent Sunday: Dudley, 370 Midnapur: hook-swinging. 172 Midsummer Day: divination, 76 ducks not hatched, Sussex 369; fern blossoms. White Ruth enians, 94; tire customs, France 82, Greece, 58, White Ruth enians, 94; wake, Worcestersh. 370 Milk: at Holi, India, 66 Minsk, see White Ruthenians Mithan: in tale, Assam, 487 Modern Greek Folk-Tales and Ancient Greek Mythology: Odvsseus and St. JElias, by W.R. Halliday, 122-5 Modocs: Myths of the Modocs,

by J. Curtin, reviewed, 142-4 Mohammed: in tale, Greece, 125 Mohammedans: amulets, 209 Mohylev, see WTiite Ruthenians Monday: chevatuMe of St. Michel, Guernsey, 423; unlucky meet- ings on, Jersey, 246 Money, see Coins Monkey: in tale, Assam, 491-2 Monmouth: soul cakes, 288 Montague, A: Working Evil by

a Duck's Foot, 126 Montreal: Devil at, 252 Moon: not aimed at, White Ru- thenians, 95; in charm, Cambs, 363; in customs and beliefs, Jersey, 247; female, Assam, 485; in folk-medicine, Jersey, 249-50; man in, Cambs, 364-5, Piedmont, 278; in myth, Ba- ganda, 438; nettles and cotton- tree in, Assam, 485; new, not looked at over left shoulder, Kent, 367, or seen through glass, Jersey, 247; omen from halo, Jersey, 246; sowing when waxing. Piedmont. 278; in tales, Africa, 481, Burma, 480, Modocs, 143, Sikhim, 479; wor- shipped, Siberia, 51 Moonwort: unshoes horse, Guern- sey, 422 Moors: amulets, 207 Morocco: Westermarck's Cere- monies and Beliefs connected with Agriculture, Certain Dates of the Solar Year, and the Weather in Morocco and Mar- riage Ceremonies in Morocco re- \aewed, 501-4; ziir, 307

Moth: departed soul or fairy, Cornwall, 203

Mothering Sunday, see Mid-Lent Sunday

Mountains and hills: {see also under names); made by Devil, Piedmont, 278; procession of dead, Swiss, 273; St. Elias and tops, 123, 125

Mouse: in tale, Assam, 489, N,E. Scot., 354

Muharram feast: fast in, E. Africa. 473; fire-leaping, India. 67

Mukasa, deity, Baganda, 439

Mull: " washer woman," 87

Mumming plays, 205, 289, 373

Munster, see Clare; Tipperary; Waterford

Murder: charm to escape punish- ment, Deeside, 347

Murray, G. G.: Folk Influence in Early Greek Literature, 6, 122

Musical instruments: {see also Bag- pipes; Drum; Flute; Siwa; Stringed instruments; Trum- pet); White Ruthenians, 99

Mutter Erde. by A, Dieterich, reviewed, 263-5

Mweru: miracle, 493

Mysore, see Chennapatna; Kar- natak

Myth of the Pent Cuckoo, The, by J. E. Field, reviewed, 390-1

Myths of the Modocs, by J. Curtin, reviewed, 142-4

Nagas: {see also Angami Nagas;

Sema Nagas); tiger flesh tabued,

487 Nails, finger: cut in waning moon,

Jersey, 247 Nairs: hook-swinging, i68 Nambiyar Brahmans, 67 Names • origin of, Bushongo, 443 Nandi: future life, beliefs about,

313 Native Tribes of the Northern

Territory of Australia, by B.

Spencer, reviewed, 504-8 Navigation: lost art, Oceania, 128 Needfire: Germany, 66 Needle: as amulet. Mayo, 327;

unlucky to borrow, Piedmont,

278 Nellore: Holi, 61; hook-swinging,

163 Nepal: wer-tiger, 487