Matabelé, the, i. 115, ii. 275; their festival of new fruits, 70 _sq._
Meat and milk, dietary rules as to, ii. 83 _sq._
Mecklenburg, harvest customs in, i. 273, 274, 283
Medium inspired by crocodile spirit, ii. 213; mediums inspired by spirits of lions, leopards, and serpents, 213
Melancholy, characteristic of men of genius, ii. 302 _n._ 5
Melanesians, their observation of the Pleiades, i. 313
Men, parts of, eaten to acquire their qualities, ii. 148 _sqq._; disguised as animals, processions of, 325 _sqq._
Menstruous women, disability of, ii. 253 _sq._
Meriah, the human victim among the Khonds, i. 245, 246, 249, 250
Mexican custom of eating a man as an embodiment of a god, ii. 92 _sq._
---- customs at maize-harvest, i. 174 _sqq._
_Mhaighdean-Bhuana_ (or _Maighdean-Buana_), i. 156, 164 _sq._
Mice, the genius of, ii. 243; superstitious precautions taken by farmers against, 276 _sqq._, 281; superstition as to white, 279, 283; their ravages on the crops, 282
Midsummer solstice, rainmaking ceremony performed at the, ii. 179
Milk, taboos referring to, ii. 83 _sq._; temporary abstinence from, 161; offered to snakes, 288
Milk and meat (flesh), dietary rules as to, ii. 83 _sq._
Millet cultivated in Africa, i. 115, 117; cultivated in Assam, 123; cultivated in New Guinea, 123
Minangkabauers of Sumatra, i. 191, ii. 211
Miniature fields dedicated to spirits, i. 233 _sq._
Mistress, sanctuary of the, at Lycosura, ii. 46
Monbuttoo, the, of Central Africa, i. 119
Months, lunar, observed by savages, i. 117, 125; of Greek calendar, 52 _sq._, 82
Moon, reckoning by the, i. 117; human victims sacrificed to, 261; pigs sacrificed to the, ii. 25
Morocco, order of saints in, i. 21; the Barley Bride in, 178 _sq._
Mother, the Great, name given to the last sheaf, i. 135 _sq._; of the Maize, 172 _sqq._; of the Rice, 191 _sqq._
---- -corn, name given to last sheaf threshed, i. 147
Moulton, Professor J. H., i. 41 _n._, 131 _n._ 4
Mourning, pretended, for insects that destroy the crops, ii. 279 _sq._
Muganda (singular of Baganda, plural), ii. 231
_Mulungu_, spirits of the dead, ii. 111 _sq._
Mutilation of dead men intended to disable their ghosts, ii. 271 _sqq._; of ox, magical equivalent to mutilation of enemy, 271
---- Eleusinian, i. 35, 37 _sqq._, 65 _sqq._, 69 _sq._, 78 _sq._, 111, 161 _sq._, 188; the Great, their date, 51; instituted by Eumolpus, 70; associated with belief in immortality, 90 _sq._; of Dionysus, 15; Greek, i. 110