Index,
559
Mirror, see Looking glass |
Missel-thrush : in saying, Bre- I
consh., 511 j
Mitcham : gipsies, 346, 351 i Mithan : sacrificed, Manipur, 427,
Mithraism, 140
Mock mayors, see Mayors, mock
Mohawk Indians : weather signs,
219-20 Moirang : festival, 434 ; god, 422,
430 ; rites at life-index stone,
435-8
Moldavia : gipsies, 338
Mombasso : Devil's Bridge, 363
Moncuc : witchcraft, 362
Monday : dances, Breconsh., 514 ; Feast, Breconsh., 513 ; hiring fairs, Wales, 107 ; goddess born on, Manipur, 425 ; perilous days for birth and bleeding, 122 ; sapng, Piedmont, 216
Mondovi : tinkers' feasts, 217
Money, see Coins
Monkey : tabooed, Pokomo, 459 ; in tales, Borneo, 274, S. Amer., 58-9
Monkshood: name, Breconsh., 512
Monkton : use of church, 133
Monmouth : hiring fair, 106-7
Monmouthshire : [see also Aber- carn ; Abergavenny ; Abery- struth ; Caerleon ; Monmouth ; Mynyddyslwyn ; Newport ;
Pantygassy : Raglan ; Stow ; Usk) ; Holy IMountain, no ; marriage custom, 109-10
Montbehard : tale, 188
Montgomeryshire : {see also Llan- fair ; Welshpool) ; foundation sacrifice, no
Moon : in amulets, Portugal, 65, Spain, 64 ; controls weather, Ontario, 220 ; new, seeing and wishing, Ontario, 220 ; in nur- sery rhyme, Oxon, 77 ; in saying, Brecon.sh., 511 ; sun's wife, S. Amer. Indians, 57 ; venerated, S. Amer. Indians, 57 ; weather signs, Ontario, 220 ; worshipped, Manipur, 445
Mordiford : tale, 516-7
Moretonhampstead : fairs, 237-8
Mortyclough : battle, 373
Mota : hostile phratries, 159
Mother goddess : India, 535 ; ^linoan, 26
Mother-of-pearl : in amulets,
Italy, 70, Spain, 69-70 Mother-right : gipsies, 318-20 ;
Thonga, 145 Mothvey : hiring fair, 107 Mountain ash ; keeps out witches,
May I, Breconsh., 513 Mountain spirits : Piedmont, 364 Mt. Becetto : mountain spirit, 364 Mt. Bunasco : Devil's bridge, 363 Mt. Callan : in myth, 97 ; in
tales, 105, 206 Mt. Ida (Crete) : folklore items,
357-9 Mt. Pelion : Centaurs, 30-1 Mourning customs, see Death and
funeral customs and beliefs Mouse : in tale, Breconsh., 517 Mouse-deer : in tales, Borneo, 274 Moyarta : Armada, 492 ; pro- verb, 497 Moylough : St. Senan, 206 Muenane Indians : dance, 52 Mummers : Oxon, 86-7 Munster : [see also under names of counties) ; wars with Con- naught, 202 Murderer : hindered ship sailing,
Oxon, 89 Murut, the, 275 Museum : gifts to Society, 8 Mushroom : in saying, Breconsh.,
509 Musical instruments : [see also
Drum ; Flute ; Horn, musical ;
Panpipes ; Pennas ; Violin) ;
France, 137 Muskrat : weather sign, Ontario,
219 Mutton island : Armada, 491-2 Mwina, 457-8 Mycenaean culture, 26-7 Mynyddyslwyn : good spirit, 108 Mysteries : Savoy, 132 Myth : and ritual, 23-4 ; socio- logical value of, 24 ; study of,
132
Nagas : [see also Maram) ; snake beUefs, 150 ; taboo, 433
Nails, finger : baby's, unlucky to cut, Ontario etc., 227, Quebec etc., 361 ; cut on Friday, not Sunday, Ontario, 221 ; omens from, Ontario, 223, Oxon, 90 ; in symboUc human sacrifice, Manipur, 442-3
