Index.
475
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-
