viii. 119

_Mahwá_-tree, bride tied to, at a Munda marriage, ii. 57

Mai Darat, a Sakai tribe of the Malay Peninsula, their exorcism of demons by means of effigies, viii. 102

Maia or Majestas, the wife of Vulcan, vi. 232 _sq._

Maiau, hero in form of crocodile, v. 139 _n._ 1

Maiden, the (Persephone), the descent of, vi. 41; name given to last corn cut in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 140, 153, 155 _sqq._, 164 _sqq._; or Corn-maiden, name given to puppet made of rye at end of reaping near Wolfenbuttel, vii. 150

Maiden Feast at end of harvest in Perthshire, vii. 156

“—— -flax” at Midsummer, xi. 48

Maiden’s Well at Eleusis, vii. 36

Maidenhead, name of last standing corn on the Gareloch, vii. 158

_Maidhdeanbuain_ or _Maighdean-Bhuana_, “the shorn Maiden” at harvest in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 155 _sq._, 164, 165

Maidu Indians of California, taboos observed by women and children in absence of hunters among the, i. 122; the importance of shamans among the, i. 357 _sq._; seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 42; their notion as to fire in trees, xi. 295; their idea of lightning, xi. 298

_Maillotins_ on May Day, in the department of Mayenne, ii. 63

Maimonides, on loading a fruit-tree with stones, i. 140; on a custom observed at grafting by the heathen of Harran, ii. 100 _n._ 2; on the seclusion of menstruous women, x. 83

Maine, French department, oaks worshipped in, ii. 371

Mairs, in India, their custom of sacrificing their first-born sons to the small-pox goddess, iv. 181

Maize, Mexican goddesses of, i. 136, vii. 176, ix. 285 _sq._, 286 _n._ 1, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295; homoeopathic magic to promote the growth of, i. 136, 137; magical stones for the increase of, i. 162; continence at sowing, ii. 105; custom at maize harvest in Transylvania, iv. 254; time of the maize-harvest in modern Greece, vii. 48; cultivated in Africa, vii. 114, 115, 119, 130; cultivated in South America, vii. 122, 124; cultivated in Assam, vii. 123; compared to a mother, vii. 130; American personification of, vii. 171 _sqq._; personified as an Old Woman who Never Dies, vii. 204 _sq._; cultivated in Burma, vii. 242; Mexican goddess of the White, lepers sacrificed to her, vii. 261; thought to be dependent on the Pleiades, vii. 310; red, a totem of the Omahas, viii. 25 _sq._; the Mexican goddess of the Young, ix. 278

Maize-mother, vii. 172 _sqq._

Majhwars, Dravidian race of Mirzapur, their use of iron as a talisman,