vii. 219

_Mizimu_, spirits of the dead, among the Wadowe of East Africa, xi. 312

Miztecs of Mexico, their annual festival of the dead, vi. 54 _sq._

Mlanje, in British Central Africa, xi. 314 _n._ 1

Mnasara tribe of Morocco kindle fires at Midsummer, x. 214

Mnevis, sacred Egyptian bull of Heliopolis, iv. 72, vi. 11, viii. 34 _sq._, ix. 217

Moa, island of, taboos observed by women and children during war in, i. 131; treatment of the navel-string in, i. 187; theory of earthquakes in, v. 198; annual expulsion of diseases in a proa in, ix. 199

Moab, Arabs of, i. 153, 157, 276, iii. 280, vii. 138; their custom of shaving prisoners, iii. 273; their custom at harvest, vi. 48, 96; their remedies for ailments, vi. 242. _See also_ Arabs

——, king of, and his god Kemosh, v. 15; sacrifices his son on the wall, iv. 166, 179

——, the wilderness of, v. 52 _sq._; the springs of Callirrhoe in, v. 214 _sqq._

Moabite stone, the inscription on the, v. 15 _n._ 3, 20 _n._ 2, 163 _n._ 3

Moabites, King David’s treatment of the, iii. 273 _sq._; burn the bones of the kings of Edom, vi. 104

Mock battle at festival of new fruits among the Creek Indians, viii. 75. _See_ Sham fight

—— executions, iv. 148, 158

—— human sacrifices, iv. 214 _sqq._; sacrifices of finger-joints, iv. 219

—— kings, iv. 148 _sqq._, ix. 403 _sq._

—— marriage of human victims, ix. 257 _sq._

—— sultan in Morocco, iv. 152 _sq._

—— sun in charm to secure sunshine, i. 314

Mockery of Christ, ix. 412 _sqq._

Mocobis, the, of Paraguay, their reverence for the Pleiades, vii. 309

_Modai_, invisible spirits, among the Kacharis, ix. 93

Models in cardboard offered to the dead instead of the things themselves, vi. 63 _sq._

Moesia, Durostorum in Lower, ix. 309

Moffat, Dr. R., on the power of rain-makers in South African tribes, i. 351; on the observation of the Pleiades by the Bechuanas, vii. 316

Mogador, in Morocco, devils nailed into a wall at, ix. 63

Moggridge, Mr., on sin-eating in Wales, ix. 44 _n._ 2

Mogk, Professor Eugen, on May-trees and Whitsuntide-trees in Saxony, ii. 68 _sq._; as to the purificatory intention of the European fire-festivals, x. 330

Mohammed forbade the artificial fertilization of the palm, ii. 25 _n._ 1; on the fig, ii. 316; bewitched by a Jew, iii. 302 _sq._; said to have stoned the devil, ix. 24

Mohammed ben Isa or Aïsa, of Mequinex, founder of the order called Isowa or Aïsawa, vii. 21

Mohammedan belief as to falling stars, iv. 63 _sq._

—— calendar lunar, x. 216 _sq._, 218 _sq._

—— custom of raising cairns near sacred places, ix. 21

—— New Year festival in North Africa, x. 217 _sq._

—— peoples of North Africa, their custom of bathing at Midsummer, v. 249; Midsummer fires among the, x. 213 _sqq._

—— popular belief, traces of the bird-soul in, iii. 36 _n._ 3

—— saints as givers of children, v. 78 _n._ 2; reverence for, in North Africa, ix. 21, 22

—— students of Fez, their annual mock sultan, iv. 152 _sq._

Mohammedanism, its success due to its founder, vi. 160 _sq._

Mohammedans of India, no fire in their houses after a death, ii. 268 _n._; the Suni, of Bombay, cover mirrors after a death, iii. 95; of Oude, their mode of drinking moonshine, vi. 144

Moharram, first Mohammedan month, x. 217

Moire, sister of Tylon, v. 186

Mole-cricket in homoeopathic magic, i. 156

—— -hill, earth from a, thrown at fairies, i. 329

Moles, hearts of, eaten by diviners to acquire prophetic power, viii. 143

“—— and Field-mice,” fire ceremony on Eve of Twelfth Night in Normandy,