iii. 329;

mother-kin among the, vi. 211; of New Britain, their use of flowers and leaves as talismans, vi. 242 _sq._; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 313; their belief in demons, ix. 82 _sq._; their stories of the origin of death, ix. 303 _sq._

—— of Florida, one of the Solomon Islands, their fear of offending ghosts after eating of certain foods, viii. 85

Melawie River, the Dyaks of the, iii. 71

Melcarth, the god of Tyre, identified with Hercules, v. 16, 111; worshipped at Amathus in Cyprus, v. 32, 117; the burning of, v. 110 _sqq._; worshipped at Gades, v. 112 _sq._, vi. 258 _n._ 5

Melchior, one of the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 _sqq._

Melchizedek, king of Salem, v. 17

Meleager, his life bound up with a firebrand, ii. 265, xi. 103; and the olive-leaf, xi. 103 _n._ 2

_Melech_ and Moloch, vi. 219 _sq._

Melenik, in Macedonia, rain-making at, i. 274; fiends scalded to death on New Year’s Eve at, ix. 320

Meles, king of Lydia, banished because of a dearth, v. 183; causes lion to be carried round acropolis, v. 184

Melicertes, Isthmian games at Corinth celebrated in his honour, iv. 93, 103; son of Athamas and Ino, iv. 161; changed with his mother into marine divinities, iv. 162; in Tenedos, human sacrifices to, iv. 162; a form of Melcarth, v. 113

Melite in Phthia, Aspalis, a form of the Hanged Artemis, at, v. 291 _sq._

Melito on the father of Adonis, v. 13 _n._ 2

_Mell_, last corn cut, vii. 151 _sq._

Mell-doll, vii. 151

—— -sheaf, vii. 151 _sq._

—— -supper, vii. 151

Melos, milk-stones in, i. 165

Melur, in the Neilgherry Hills, the fire-walk at, xi. 8 _sq._

Memnonium at Thebes, vi. 35 _n._

Memorial stones, flat and standing, in honour of women and men respectively, among the Khasis, vi. 203

Memphis, statues of Summer and Winter at, iv. 259 _n._ 1; head of Osiris at, vi. 11; oath of the kings of Egypt at, vi. 24; festival of Osiris in the month of Khoiak at, vi. 108; Apis the sacred bull of, vi. 119 _n._, viii. 34; the sanctuary of Serapis at, vi. 119 _n._

Men, masked, personating the dead, ii. 178, vi. 53; injured through their shadows, iii. 78 _sqq._; create gods in their own likeness, iv. 194; make gods, vi. 211; dressed as women, vi. 253 _sqq._; dressed as women at marriage, vi. 261 _sq._; dressed as women to deceive dangerous spirits, vi. 262 _sq._; dressed as women at circumcision, vi. 263; parts of, eaten to acquire their qualities, viii. 148 _sqq._; disguised as animals, processions of, viii. 325 _sqq._; evil transferred to, ix. 38 _sqq._; possessed by spirits in China, ix. 117; disguised as demons, ix. 170 _sq._, 172, 173, 213, 214 _sq._, 235; as scapegoats, ix. 194 _sqq._; divine, as scapegoats, ix. 217 _sqq._; masked, as representatives of the spirits of fertility, both vegetable and animal, ix. 249 _sq._; sacrifices of deified, ix. 409; disguised as women, x. 107

—— and asses, redemption of firstling, iv. 173

“—— of God,” prophets, v. 76

—— and women, difference of language between, iii. 348 _sq._; inspired by the spirits of dead kings and chiefs, vi. 171, 172, 192 _sq._; forbidden by Mosaic law to interchange dress, ix. 363; eat apart, x. 81

Men’s blood not to be seen by women, iii. 252 _n._

Men Tyrannus, Phrygian moon-god, v. 284; custom as to pollution of death at his shrine, vi. 227

_Mên-an-tol_, “holed stone” in Cornwall, xi. 187

Mendalam River in Borneo, vii. 97, 98, 187

Mendes, in Egypt, mummy of Osiris at, iv. 4; the ram-god of, iv. 7 _n._ 2; the goat the beast-god of, viii. 172

Menedemus, sacrifices without the use of iron to, iii. 226 _sq._

Menelaus, husband of Helen and king of Sparta, ii. 279

Menelik, Emperor of Abyssinia, forbids sanguinary fights for purpose of procuring rain, i. 258

_Mengap_, a Dyak liturgy, ix. 383

Menoeceus, his voluntary death, iv. 192 _n._ 3

Menomini Indians, ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268 _n._ 1

Menstruation, women tabooed at, iii. 145 _sqq._; seclusion of girls at the first, x. 22 _sqq._; the first, attributed to defloration by a spirit, x. 24; reasons for secluding women at, x. 97

Menstruous blood, the dread of, x. 76. _See also_ Blood

—— fluid, medicinal applications of the, x. 98 _n._ 1

—— woman forbidden to touch roof-thatch, i. 179 _n._ 1

—— women, avoidance of, by hunters, iii. 211; disability of, viii. 253 _sq._; keep their heads or faces covered, x. 22, 24, 25, 29, 31, 44 _sq._, 48 _sq._, 55, 90, 92; not allowed to cross or bathe in rivers, x. 77; not allowed to go near water, x. 77; supposed to spoil fisheries, x. 77, 78, 90 _sq._, 93; painted red, or red and white, x. 78; not allowed to use the ordinary paths, x. 78, 80, 84, 89, 90; not allowed to approach the sea, x. 79; not allowed to enter cultivated fields, x. 79; obliged to occupy special huts, x. 79, 82, 85 _sqq._; supposed to spoil crops, x. 79, 96; not allowed to cook, x. 80, 82, 84, 90; not allowed to drink milk, x. 80, 84; not allowed to handle salt, x. 81 _sq._, 84; kept from wells, x. 81, 82, 97; obliged to use separate doors, x. 84; not allowed to lie on high beds, x. 84; not allowed to touch or see fire, x. 84, 85; not allowed to cross the tracks of animals, x. 84, 91, 93; excluded from religious ceremonies, x. 85; not allowed to eat with men, x. 85, 90; thought to spoil the luck of hunters, x. 87, 89, 90, 91, 94; not allowed to ride horses, x. 88 _sq._, 96; not allowed to walk on ice of rivers and lakes, x. 90; dangers to which they are thought to be exposed, x. 94; not allowed to touch beer, wine or vinegar, x. 96; not allowed to salt or pickle meat, x. 96 _n._ 2; not allowed to cross running streams, x. 97; not allowed to draw water at wells, x. 97; used to protect fields against insects, x. 98 _n._ 1

Menstruous women dreaded and secluded, iii. 145 _sqq._, 206; in Australia, iii. 145, x. 76 _sqq._; in America, iii. 145 _sqq._, x. 85 _sqq._; in the Torres Straits Islands, x. 78 _sq._; in New Guinea, x. 79; in Galela, x. 79; in Sumatra, x. 79; in Africa, x. 79 _sqq._; among the Jews and in Syria, x. 83 _sq._; in India, x. 84 _sq._; in Annam, x. 85

Mentawei Islands, ceremony at reception of strangers in the, iii. 104

Mentras of Malacca use a special language in searching for lignum aloes,