v. 101

Muni, or Rishi Agastya, figure of, in ceremony to stop rain, i. 296

Munich, annual expulsion of the devil at, ix. 214 _sq._

Munro, Dr. R., on crannogs, ii. 352

Munster, rain-producing fountain in, i. 301; dearth in, attributed to king’s incest, ii. 116; taboos observed by the ancient kings of, iii. 11; tax on fires paid to the king of, x. 139; Midsummer fires in, x. 203

Münsterberg, precautions against witches in, xi. 20 _n._

Münsterland, Easter fires in, x. 141; the Yule log in, x. 247

Munychian Artemis, iv. 166 _n._ 1 _See_ Artemis

Munzerabad, district of South India, expulsion of the demon of cholera or smallpox in, ix. 172

Münzesheim, in Baden, the Corn-goat at harvest at, vii. 283

Muota Valley in Switzerland, custom observed on Twelfth Night in the, ix. 166

Mura-muras, the remote predecessors of the Dieri, appealed to for rain, i. 255 _sq._

Muralug, dread of women at menstruation in, x. 78

Murder, heaps of sticks or stones on scenes of, ix. 15

—— of children to secure their rebirth in barren women, v. 95

Murderer, fire of oak-wood used to detect a, xi. 92 _n._ 4

Murderers, taboos imposed on, iii. 187 _sq._; their bodies destroyed, iv. 11

Murli, female devotee, in Mahratta, v. 62

Murom, district of Russia, the “Funeral of Kostroma” in, iv. 262

Murrain, brazen oxen, a talisman against, viii. 281; need-fire kindled as a remedy for, x. 278, 282, 290 _sqq._; burnt sacrifices to stay a, in England, Wales, and Scotland, x. 300 _sqq._; calf burnt alive to stop a, x. 300 _sq._; cattle buried to stop a, x. 326. _See also_ Cattle disease

Murrams, the, of Manipur, foods tabooed to chief of, iii. 292

Murray, Sir James, on _kern_ or _kirn_, vii. 151 _n._ 3

Murray, Miss Margaret A., on human sacrifices to Osiris, vii. 260 _sq._

Murray, the country of, Beltane fires in, x. 154 _n._ 1

Murray Island, in Torres Straits, ceremony to raise the wind in, i. 322

—— Islands, in Torres Straits, the fire-drill in the, ii. 209

—— River, in Australia, tribes of the Lower, avoid mentioning the names of the dead, iii. 351; namesakes of the dead change their names among the tribes of the Lower,