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Index.
gaol-fever, 137 ; jaundice, 35 ; madness, 139 ; nightmare, 139 ; stomach trouble in cows, 33 ; uterine, 145 ; wounds, 35 ; English Medicine in the Anglo- Saxon Times^ by J. F. Payne, reviewed, 362-5 ; localities :
Anglo-Saxon, 364-5; Cambridge- shire, 337 ; Ireland, 335 ; Mon- mouthshire, 166 ; Morocco, 29, 33, 35-6,41, 46; remedies :
ashes of midsummer fire, 29, or of New Year fire, 41 ; eggs, 33 ; harebells, 177 ; henna, 33 ; mar- joram, 36 ; moon daisy, 145 ; pennyroyal, 35-6 ; plants, 364-5 ; rain-water of Apl. 27th, 33 ; rue, 137-9 j seeds of cress, 33 ; smoke, 35, from burning wild cat, 46 ; water boiled with flint arrowheads, 335 ; water collected at New Year, 41 ; water from virtuous wells, 166
Medusa legend, 350-2
Meetings, 1-5, 7, 129-31, 241-2, 369-70
Melanesia : {see also Fiji islands ; Shortland islands ; and Solomon islands) ; origin of aborigines of Austraha and Tasmania, loi
Melos : folktale, 24
Melquarts Temple, Malta, 130
Members deceased, 6, 129, 131, 242
Members elected, 1-2, 6, 129, 131,
241, 369
Members resigned, i, 6, 129, 131,
242, 369
Memory, charm to strengthen,
Morocco, 33 Menhirs, see Stones Mequinez : lustration ceremony, mid- summer, 32 ; poplar fire purifies houses &c., June, 29 ; widow's tent burnt, midsummer, Morocco, 31 Mercia : charter of King Edgar, 123 Merionethshire, see Festiniog Merhn legend, 370, 407-27, 462-3 Mermaid beliefs : Faroes, 487 Merman beliefs : Iceland, 359 Messina : festival of " La Vara," 248-9 Metals in folklore, see Copper ; Gold ;
Iron ; and Silver Melius Fuffetius, dictator of Alba, 325 Mexico : ancient, swinging round poles, 461
Mezentius, King, see King Mezentius
Middlesex, see London
Midlothian, see Edinburgh
Midnight : charm against rupture, Monmouthshire, 65 ; stones dropped by Devil and wizard, Gloucester- shire, 175
Midsummer Customs in Morocco, by Dr. E. Westermarck, 2, 27-47
Midsummer Day : dedication day of temple of Fors Fortuna, 284-5 '■> ^'^ festival of Santa Rosalia, Palermo, 250
Midsummer Eve : bonfires, Morocco, 29, 31 ; customs on, Europe and Morocco, 44 ; divination on, Mon- mouthshire, 65
Milk : drunk by spirits, Huculs, 51 ; offered to Nereids, Greeks, 21
Milky Way : a river, Aranda, 429
Mirror, see Looking-glass
Miscellaneous Notes from Monmouth- shire, by Miss B. A. Wlierry, 63-7
Misfortune, charm against, Jamaica, 77
Missolonghi : charm to destroy waterspout, 19 1
Mistletoe : associated with sun and Fortune's wheel, Greece and Italy, 284-5 ; Ixion, mistletoe god, Greece, 285 ; opens locks, 143 ; quintessence of oak, Greece and Italy, 284
Mitchel Troy : house nightly de- stroyed, 64-5
Mitteiliingen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien reviewed,
491-3 Alitteiltingen der Verbandes deutscher
Vcrein fiir Volkskunde, reviewed,
491-2 Mnasara tribe, Morocco : midsummer
fires, 29, but not water customs,
32 ; New Year fire custom, 41 Mock Burial, by Miss E. Villiers, 225 Mock Mayor of Headington, The, by
W. H. Jewitt and Miss C. S. Burne,
464-5 Mogador : Berber tribes, 27 Mohammedanism, see Islam Moharram : loth, fire and water
customs, Morocco, 40- 1 Monday : in game, Ross-shire, 81 Monitor lizard : in folktale, Loango,
403-4 ; in proverb, Loango, 403 ;
skin in sacred grove, Loango, 404 Monkey : {see also Chimpanzee) ; in
folktale, Loango, 388
