ii. 262;

not to be seen eating or drinking, iii. 118; precaution as to his spittle, iii. 290

Mucelis of Angola, all fires among them extinguished on king’s death, ii. 262

Mud, rain-makers smear themselves with, i. 350; smeared on feet of bed of Flamen Dialis, iii. 14; plastered on heads of man-slayers, iii. 182; on heads of women in mourning, iii. 182 _n._ 2

Muganda (singular of Baganda, plural), viii. 231

_Mugema_, the earl of Busiro, vi. 168

Müglitz, in Moravia, the Wheat Bride at reaping at, vii. 162

_Mugumu_ or _Mugomo_, a species of fig-tree revered by the Akikuyu, ii. 42

Mugwort (_Artemisia vulgaris_), in magic, i. 209; wreaths of, at Midsummer, x. 163, 165, 174; a preventive of sore eyes, x. 174; a preservative against witchcraft, x. 177; gathered on Midsummer Day or Eve, xi. 58 _sqq._; a protection against thunder, ghosts, magic, and witchcraft, xi. 59 _sq._; thrown into the Midsummer fires, xi. 59; used in exorcism, xi. 60

Mühlbach, in Transylvania, trial of witch at, iii. 39

Mukasa, god of the Victoria Nyanza Lake, worshipped by the Baganda, ii. 150; provided with human wives, ii. 150; probably a dead man, vi. 196 _sq._; gives oracles through a woman, vi. 257; fish offered to, viii. 253

_Mukuru_, an ancestor (plural _Ovakuru_, ancestors), among the Herero, vi. 185 _sq._

Mukylcin, the Earth-wife, among the Wotyaks, ii. 146

Mulai Rasheed II., Sultan of Morocco, iv. 153

Mule, asthma transferred to a, ix. 50

Mules excluded from sanctuary of Alectrona, viii. 45

_Mulgarradocks_, medicine-men in South-western Australia, i. 336

Mull, the island of, the harvest Maiden in, vii. 155, 166; the need-fire in, x. 148, 289 _sq._; the Beltane cake in, x. 149; remedy for cattle-disease in, x. 325; consumptive people passed through rifted rocks in, xi. 186 _sq._

Mullein, sprigs of, passed across Midsummer fires protect cattle against sickness and sorcery, x. 190; bunches of, passed across Midsummer fires and fastened on cattle-shed,