ix. 317

—— and field-mice driven away by torches, x. 115, xi. 340

Molina, J. I., on Araucanian belief as to toads, i. 292 _n._ 3; on the annual expulsion of evils in Peru, ix. 130 _n._

Moloch, sacrifice of children to, iv. 75, 168 _sqq._, v. 178; meaning of the name, v. 15; the king, vi. 219 _sqq._

—— and _Melech_, vi. 219 _sq._

Molonga, a demon of Queensland personified by a man, ix. 172

Molsheim in Baden, bonfires and burning discs on the first Sunday in Lent near, x. 117

Molucca Islanders, their festival of heaven, i. 399 _sq._

Moluccas, clove-trees in blossom treated like pregnant women in the, ii. 28; fear of offending forest-spirits in the, ii. 40; abduction of human souls in the, iii. 61 _sq._; ceremony on return from a journey in the, iii. 113

Mombasa, in British East Africa, king of, expected to give rain, i. 396; preceded on the march by fire, ii. 264; avoidance of the word smallpox at, iii. 400

Mommsen, August, on a Delphic ceremony, i. 46 _n._ 1; on the Sacred Marriage, ii. 137 _n._ 1; on the Eleusinian games, vii. 77 _n._ 4; on the Anthesteria, ix. 153 _n._ 1; on the Cronia at Athens, ix. 352 _n._ 1

Mommsen, Theodor, on dictatorship of Tusculum, i. 23 _n._ 3; on the costume of a Roman king, ii. 174 _n._ 1; on the triumphal golden crown, ii. 175 _n._ 1; on the election of the Roman kings, ii. 296; on the date of the festival of Osiris at Rome, vi. 95 _n._ 1; on the Roman custom of knocking in a nail annually, ix. 67 _n._ 2

Mon, island of, belief of Esthonian reapers in, as to cutting the first corn, vii. 285

Monarchy in ancient Greece and Rome, tradition of its abolition, i. 46; rise of, i. 216 _sqq._; essential to emergence of mankind from savagery, i. 217; hereditary and elective, combination of the two, ii. 292 _sqq._

Monbuttu (Monbutto) or Mangbettou of Central Africa, their custom of lengthening the heads of chiefs’ children, ii. 297; their king takes his meals in private, iii. 118 _sq._; women the agricultural labourers among the, vii. 119

_Mondard_, the great, a straw-man placed on oldest apple-tree while apples are ripening, viii. 6

Mondays, witches dreaded on, xi. 73

Money, the oldest Italian, i. 23; magical stones to bring, i. 164

Mongol transference of evil, ix. 7 _sq._

Mongolia, rain-making in, i. 305; incarnate human gods in, i. 413

Mongolian peoples, their custom of stuffing skins of sacrificed animals or stretching them on a framework, viii. 257 _sq._

—— story, milk-tie in a, x. 138 _n._ 1; the external soul in a, xi. 143 _sq._

Mongols feared by the Chinese government, i. 413; their recall of the soul, iii. 44; their recovery of souls from demons, iii. 63; reluctant to name the dead, iii. 353; sacred books of the, only to be read in spring or summer, iii. 384; funeral customs of the, v. 293

Monkey sacrificed for riddance of evils, ix. 208 _sq._

Monkeys (apes) not to be called by their proper name, iii. 402, 403, 408, 413; sacred at Fishtown, viii. 287

Monmouthshire, All Souls’ Day in, vi. 79

Monomotapa, in East Africa, the king of, his sacred fire, ii. 264; forbidden to wear foreign stuffs, iii. 115; his way of prolonging his life, vi. 222 _sq._

Monster supposed to swallow and disgorge novices at initiation, xi. 240 _sq._, 242

Mont des Fourches, in the Vosges, witch-hare at, x. 318

Montagne du Doubs, in Franche-Comté, bonfires on the Eve of Twelfth Night in the, ix. 316

Montaigne on ceremonial extinction of fires, x. 135 _n._ 2

Montalto, in Calabria, custom of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, iv. 241

Montanists, their view that the Creation took place at the spring equinox, v. 307 _n._ 2

Montanus, on the Yule log, x. 248

Montanus the Phrygian, claimed to be the incarnate Trinity, i. 407

Monteiro, Major, his expedition in South Africa, i. 393 _n._ 2

Montenegro, the Yule log in, x. 263

Montezuma, King of Mexico, worshipped as a god, i. 416; not to be looked on by his subjects, iii. 121; not allowed to set foot on ground, x. 2

Month during which men disguised as devils go about, ix. 132; of general licence before expulsion of demons, ix. 148; intercalary, ix. 342 _sqq._

—— and moon, names for, in Aryan languages, ix. 325

Months, the Egyptian, table of, vi. 37 _n._; ancient Greek, lunar and therefore shifting in the solar year, vii. 52 _sq._, 82; lunar, observed by savages, vii. 117, 125

Montols of Northern Nigeria, their belief in their sympathetic relation to snakes, xi. 209 _sq._

Monumbos, the, of German New Guinea, uncleanness of man-slayers among the,