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Michaelmas Day, 404
Middleton Monday, 97
Milesians, the, in Ireland, 37
Milkwort : used in perambulation of boundaries, 196
Missing Camel, the : tale of, 129
Mlambe and the Three Children : tale of, 136
Mock mayors, 76, 97, 200, 213
Mongan : tale of, 56
Monkeys, the : tale of , 149
Monmouthsliire : folklore of, 416
Monsters in Shakespeare, 386 et seq.
Morris-dancing, 203, 210
Mother Pagley's Dole, 83
Mountain ash : sprigs of, placed on doors on Good Friday, 74
Mourners : among Chinese and Tartars, purified by fire, 364 et seq.
Mousterian period in Jersey : use of flint and steel for lire-making, 358
Moutray Read, Miss D. H. : on " Some Characteristics of Irish Folk-lore," 114, 250-78 : re- view of St. J. D. Seymour, Irish Witchcraft and Demono- logy, 322 ; review of E. Andrews' Ulster Folklore, 324
Mummers' Play, the, 182 ; Mum- ming in Ireland, 301
Muni of the Torn-Eye : tale of, 426 et seqq.
Mussels : gathered before Good Friday, 77
Mysterious Hand, the, 46, 60
Nandi tribe : use of fire as a purifier, 363
Needwood Forest : parochial geo- graphy of, 239
Neolithic period : use of flint and steel for fire-making, 358
Nereids in Shakespeare, 383
New Fire, 369
New Fruits : festival of, 369
New Guinea, British : omens taken from fire, 365
Newell Well, 74
Newt, the : folklore of, 421 et seq.
Nibelungen-cycle, the, 32
Nigeria, Kagoro tribe : belief that fire originated from lightning, 353
Nursery rhyme from Bedford- shire, 413 et seq.
Oak tree, the : dancing round, 92 Oath of St. Thomas Beket, 289 Obalufon : worship of, 433 Old Man, the : tale of, 157 Omens : from shadow and fire,
310 Orenda, defined, 24 Orphan, the, and his Host : tale
of, 166 Other-world, the : aspects of, in Ireland and Wales, 31 ; com- plex conception of, 41
Pace Sunday : Easter Sunday, 93
Pace-eggers : players, 69
Paiss Sunday : Easter Sunday, 93
Palestine, Jewesses : fire rites in charge of, 368
Pancakes : made from stolen eggs, 94
Paniyan tribe : method of fire- making, 356
Parish Clerk's meeting, the, 92
Parker, A. C. : Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet, re- viewed, 442 et seqq.
Parochial settlements on Easter Monday, 83
Parsis : use of fire as a protective, 360
Parsley : sown on Good Friday, 70
Pasque eggs : Easter eggs, 94
Passages, underground, 416
Passover Pudding : made on Good Friday, 74
Passe-egg Day : Easter Sunday, 79
Pease Saturday : Easter Eve, 93
Percussion method of fire-making, 358
Picanin who would Laugh : tale of, 143
Pigs : cannot die on Good Friday,
71 Pilgrimage : at Easter, 95 ; tenure
connected with, 309 Pharmakos, the, 218-24, 298 Photographs unlucky, 308 Pin : well, a, 92 ; thrown for luck,
210 Piskies, the : colour of, 307 Pitrfe, Giuseppe : obituary of, 314