iii. 234;

their use of chickens as scapegoats, ix. 36; their imprisonment of ghosts in trees, ix. 60 _sq._

Makalaka hills, to the west of Matabeleland, i. 394

Makalakas, their human god, i. 394 _sq._; ceremony at the naming of a child among the, iii. 369 _sq._; their offerings of first-fruits, viii. 110 _sq._

Makalanga, a Bantu tribe near Sofala, x. 135 _n._ 2

Makanga, African tribe, their belief that the souls of dead chiefs are in lions, viii. 287 _sq._

Makaram, an Indian month, iv. 49

Makatissas of South Africa, their use of magical dolls, i. 71

Make-Make, a god in Easter Island, viii. 133

Makololo, the, of South Africa, burn or bury their shorn hair for fear of witchcraft, iii. 281

_Makral_, “the witch,” on first Sunday in Lent, at Grand Halleux, x. 107

Makrizi, Arab historian, on mode of stopping rain, i. 252; on the custom of throwing a virgin into the Nile, ii. 151 _n._ 2; on the burning of effigies of Haman at Purim, ix. 393 _sq._

Malabar, use of magical images in, i. 64; iron as an amulet in, iii. 234; custom of suicide observed by kings in, iv. 47; custom of _Thalavettiparothiam_ in, iv. 53; religious suicide in, iv. 54 _sq._; use of cows as scapegoats in, ix. 216; the Iluvans of, x. 5; the Tiyans of, x. 68

Malacca, the Mentras of, iii. 404

Malagasy, their homoeopathic magic at planting maize, i. 137; their use of children of living parents in ritual, vi. 247; venerate crocodiles, viii. 215; _faditras_ among the, ix. 33 _sq._

Malagasy language, dialectical variations of, caused by taboos on the names of chiefs and kings, living or dead, iii. 378 _sq._, 380

—— porters, their belief as to a woman stepping over their poles, iii. 424

—— soldiers, foods tabooed to, i. 117 _sq._; male animals not to be killed in the houses of absent, i. 119

—— whalers, rules observed by, iii. 191. _See also_ Madagascar

Malanau tribes of Borneo, their use of a special language in searching for camphor, iii. 406 _sq._; their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii. 294

Malas, the, of Southern India, their treatment of the placenta, i. 194; their custom in drought, i. 284 _n._; their rain-charm by means of frogs, i. 294; talismans of Mala women at childbirth, iii. 235; their communionwith a goddess by eating her edible image, viii. 93 _sq._

Malassi, a fetish in West Africa, xi. 256

Malay charms by means of magical images, i. 57 _sq._; at reaping rice, i. 139 _sq._

—— conception of the soul of rice, vii. 180 _sqq._

—— life, prevalence of magic in, iii. 416 _n._ 4

—— magic, to catch crocodiles, i. 110 _sq._; tinctured with a belief in spirits, i. 220 _n._ 1

—— maxim at planting maize, i. 136

—— miners, fowlers, and fishermen, special forms of speech employed by, iii. 407 _sqq._

—— mode of rain-making, i. 262

—— Peninsula, power of medicine-men among the wild tribes of the, i. 360 _sq._; special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in the, i. 401 _n._ 3; the Djakuns of the, ii. 236; race for a bride among the indigenous tribes of the, ii. 302 _sq._; art of abducting human souls in the, iii. 73 _sqq._; the Besisis of the, iii. 87, ix. 226 _n._ 1; the Mentras or Mantras of the, vi. 140; the Rice-mother in the, vii. 197 _sqq._; the Mai Darat of the, viii. 102; the Mantras of the, ix. 88

—— region, divinity of kings in, i. 398

—— society, parents named after their children in, iii. 332

—l— story of the absence of the soul in a dream, iii. 38 _n._ 4; of the transference of souls, iii. 49

—— superstitions in regard to tin, iii. 407

Malayalies of the Shervaray Hills, their euphemism for a tiger, iii. 402

Malayans, devil-dancers in Southern India, practise a mock human sacrifice, iv. 216

Malayo-Siamese families of the Patani States, their custom as to the afterbirth, xi. 163 _sq._

Malays, taboos observed by the, in the search for camphor, i. 114 _sq._; telepathy in war among the, i. 127; their belief as to the sunset glow, i. 319; their superstitious veneration for their rajahs, i. 361; regalia regarded as talismans among the, i. 362; their ceremony for making the durian-tree bear fruit, ii. 21; their ways of deceiving the spirits of trees and plants, ii. 22 _sqq._; their superstition as to _toallong_ trees, ii. 41; their conception of the soul as a mannikin, iii. 28; their conception of the soul as a bird, iii. 34 _sqq._; their custom as to shadows in building a house, iii. 81; their superstitions as to the head, iii. 254; taboos on cutting the hair among the, iii. 261; their belief in the Spectral Huntsman, iv. 178; their lunar years, vii. 314; their use of birds as scapegoats, ix. 35; stratification of religious beliefs among the, ix. 90 _n._ 1; their story of the external soul, xi. 147 _sq._; their belief as to sympathetic relation between man and animal, xi. 197; their doctrine of the plurality of souls, xi. 222

—— of Patani Bay, their ways of referring to tigers, iii. 404; special language used by them in fishing, iii. 408 _sq._; a family of them related to crocodiles, viii. 212

Maldive Islands, special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal in the, i. 401 _n._ 3; virgin sacrificed as bride to a jinnee of the sea in the, ii. 152 _sqq._; disposal of cut hair and nails in the, iii. 274

Male and female, the sticks of the fire-drill regarded by savages as, ii. 208 _sqq._, 218, 218 _n._ 1, 223, 224, 226, 238, 249 _sq._; souls in Chinese philosophy, xi. 221

Male animals not to be killed in houses of absent Malagasy soldiers, i. 119

—— organ, effigy of, in rites of Dionysus, vii. 12; effigy of, in Thracian ceremony, vii. 26, 29

Malecki (Maeletius, Menecius), J., on the heathen religion of the Lithuanians, ii. 366 _n._ 2

Malekootoos, a Bechuana tribe. _See_ Baperis

Malemut Esquimaux unwilling to tell their names, iii. 328

Malepa, Bantu tribe of the Transvaal, will not taste blood, iii. 241

Maletsunyane, river in Basutoland, ii. 157

Malikolo, in the New Hebrides, heads of infants moulded artificially in, ii. 298 _n._ 2

Malkin Tower, witches at the, x. 245

Malko-Tirnovsko, in the district of Adrianople, masquerade at Carnival at,