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Index.
Mbika na nsudia, in love charm,
Lower Congo, 41 Medical folklore : {see also Charms and spells) ;
diseases and injuries treated : — bar- renness, 513; burns, 489; eye ailments, 72, 491 ; jaundice, 72 ; leprosy, 513 ; lunacy, 40 ; lung diseases, 484 ; rheumatism, 484 ; throat ailments, 393 ; toothache, 513 ; whooping cough, 72, 221 ; wounds, 72 localities : — Assam, 393 ; Burma, 484 ; Durham county, 72 ; Lin- colnshire, 489 ; Lower Congo, 40 ; Norway, 320 ; Shropshire, 491 ; Staffordshire, 221 ; Wor- cestershire, 491 ; remedies: — ale in which trout drowned, 221 ; Ascension Day rain, 491 ; barberry bark, 72 ; blood of dog, 393 ; blood, human, 513 ; bread and butter and sugar, 72 ; churchyard earth, 320; flesh of cow killed by lightning, 484 ; host, sacred, 320 ; houseleek and cream, 489 ; mallow, 72 ; south- running water, 72 Medicine-men, see Wizards Meetings, 1-5, 7, 129-31, 385-7 Meitheis : in Chronicles of Manipur,
135 ; vocabulary, 133, 418-20 Melil Tomeil, in Hebrew Arthur
romance, 279, 498 Melon: in fable, China, 519 Members dead, 1-2, 6, 385 Members elected, 1-2, 129, 130-1, 385 Members resigned, 1-2, 6, 129, 130-I Menstruation, see Catamenia Merlin, in Arthur romances, 274, 282 Merrick, Capt. G. : review by, — Haiisa
Stories and Middles, 374-6 Metals in folklore, see under names.
Slick as Silver Meteors : ghosts or spirits, Lower
Congo, 476 Metis and Zeus, myth of, 104 JMJilii tree : in war charm. Lower
Congo, 35 _ Michael and his dogs, in storm, York- shire, 348 Michaelmas Day : Old, Devil spoils blackberries on, Worcestershire, 343 Middlesex, see Hampton Court Palace;
London ; and Teddington Midlothian, see Edinburgh Midnight : Satan's Hour, Wilts, 80
Mikirs : folk-tale, 389-90
Milano Tale (Sarawak), A, by A. E. Lawrence, 83-5
Mildenhall : fair, 82
Milk : in ceremonies, Nandi, 248 ; tabus on, Nandi, 247
Milky Way : an Easter-egg pattern, Roumanians, 302 (plate)
Millet : in folk-tale, China, 518 ; har- vest offering, 436
Millstone nixies, 328
Milne, F. A. : Exhibits at Meetings of the Society, 350
Mince pies : season of, Cambridge, 79
Mirror, see Looking glass
Mistletoe : child enters mother from, Australia, 126 ; protects from light- ning, Hanbury, 220 ; unlucky before Christmas, Worcestershire, 343
Mithan, see Gyal
Mitteiltcngen aus den Detitschen Schutzgebieten : Ergdnziingsheft No. I, von K. Weule, reviewed,
244-5 Modred, in Arthur romances, 282 Mogadon folk-tales, 125 Mole : feet as amulet. South Downs,
65 ; in folk-tale, Kent, 217 ; omen
from, Worcestershire, 344 ; as totem,
Nandi, 247 Mole-cricket : as Easter-egg pattern,
Roumanians, 301 -2 (plate) ; in tribal
name, Lower Congo, 63 Mombasa : folk-tale, 446 ; Swahili,
433-4, 437 Monastery : as Easter-egg pattern,
Roumanians, 302-3 (plates) Monday : (see also Easter Monday) ;
after Easter Monday, women's feast,
Roumanians, 297 Mongols : folk-tales, 125 Mongoose : in folk-tale, Swahili, 447 Monitor lizard : as ancestor, Anda-
mans, 261-2, 265 ; name of mythical
being, Andamans, 259, 493 Monkey: in folk-tales, China, 518,
India, 412-3, 438, Japan, 252;
gibbon grandson of sloth, Assam,
390 ; origin of. Lower Congo,
58-9
Monsembe : game, 460 ; names of Deity, 57
Monsoons, see Winds
Moon : change of, on Saturday, brings rain, Worcestershire, 344, Yorkshire, 348 ; eclipse, cause of. Lower Congo, 58; in folk-tales,
