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Maierinskaya Filiaciya v Vostoch- Tioy i Centralnoy Azii, by N. Matsokin, reviewed, 403-6
Matriarchate : E. and C. Asia,
403-4 Maui, Polynesian demi-god, 520-1 May : {see also May Day) ; annual
hirings, Wales and Hereford,
385 May bush : Kilkenny, 202 May Day : birch-tree, Wales etc., 385 ; fairs, Glos., 443 ; games, Northants, 197, 202 ; garlands, Hunts, 353 ; manorial customs, Glos., 450 ; May boughing, Glos., 451 ; May walking, Glos., 450 ; Old, manorial custom, Glos., 450 ; pasture custom, Northants, 202 ; 29th, oak leaves etc. worn, Glos., 451-2 May Eve : games, Kilkenny, 197,
202 Maypole : Glos., 451 ; Kilkenny,
202 Mazes : Zulu, 271 Mecklenburg : folklore, 272 Medical folklore : [see also Amu lets and talismans ; Charms and spells) ; 241 ;
diseases and injuries treated : — ague, 353, 492, 496 ; apo- plexy, 496 ; asthma, 496 ; bites, venomous, 493 ; of bladder, 493 ; cancer, 493 ; of cattle, 46, 57, 65; childbirth pangs, 64 ; colic, 491 ; dizzi- ness, 496 ; dropsy, 491 ; of ears, 492 ; epilepsy, 496 ; erysipelas, 473 ; of eyes, 62, 64. 334-5. 483-4- 491-2, 495-7 ; faints, 496; fevers, 192, 195-6; fluxes and bleeding, 232, 492, 495-7 ; gangrene, 491 ; gout, 492-3, 495-6; headache, 233-4, 491 ; of horses, 61 ; indiges- tion, 474 ; of jaundice, 233, 491; of joints, 46; of kidneys, 491, 493 ; of liver, 244, 491 ; lunacy, 496 ; of lungs, 491 ; melancholy, 496 ; palsy, 496 ; poisoning, 48-9, 493 ; rheu- matism, 62, 65, 335, 476 ; scabs and itch, 493 ; sciatica, 492-3 ; scurvy, 494 ; of spleen, 244 ; of stomach, 496 ; stone, 231-2, 491, 493 ; tooth- ache, 492 ; ulcers and fistulas.
491-3 ; warts, 490-1 ; wens, tumours, and swellings, 490- I ; of women, 219 ; worms, 61, 231, 491, 493 ; wounds, 491, 493 ; wry-neck, 495-6 ;
god invents medicine, Japan, 188 ;
localities : — England, 62, 65,
334-5. 353. 357. 383. 483-4; Greece, 244 ; Ireland, 473-4, 476 ; Japan, 190, 192 ; Melos, 219 ; Scotland, 229 ; S. Africa, 229 ; Spain, 230 ; Tibetans, 270 ; remedies : — aloes, 495 ; alum, 496 ; animals, parts of, 48-9, 229, 231-2, 496 ; ash berries, 233 ; asarabacca, 496 ; barley flour, tar, wax, and oil, 494 ; belemnites, 62 ; bleeding, 244 ; blood, 495 ; castoreum,
495 ; celandine, 492, 495 ; cinquefoil, 492 ; colcothar,
496 ; columbine seeds, 491 ; coral, 496 ; daisy, 492 ; dande- lion leaves, 474 ; dung, 270 ; fir-cones, 232 ; frog, 357 ; frog spawn, 476; Gascoin'spowder, 496 ; ground ivy, 492-3 ; gryphites, 46 ; henbane-, 492 ; hop seeds, 491 ; lapis tutia, 495 ; lavender, 496 ; laven- der cotton, 493 ; moxa, 192 ; nutmeg, 232 ; orange leaves, 232 ; oranges, 232 ; parsley, 495 '< peachwort, 490-1 ; pearl, 496 ; peletory, 493 ; pepper, 495 ; plantain, 496 ; rosemary, 496 ; rubbing with bog water, 473 ; saffron, 496 ; sarcocol, 495 ; sassafras, 233 ; scammony, 495 ; spider, 353 ; Venice treacle, 48 ; vervain, 491 ; w^ater in w-hich fossil or arrow steeped, 49, 61, 64, 65 ; well water, 219, 334-5, 483-4 ; white of eggs, 190 ; wild carrot seeds, 491
Meetings, 1-9, 145-7, 273-4
Meitheis ; ]Meithei Literature, by T. C. Hodson, 175-84 ; milk tabooed, 287
Melancholy, cure for, 496
Melanesia : {see also Banks' islands ; New Britain ; New Hebrides ; Santa Cruz) ; myth- ology, 141-3, 163, 315-6 ; origin
