Loango, king of, deposed when the harvest fails, i. 47; supernaturally endowed kings of, i. 116; a capital offence to see the king eat, i. 161; the king confined to his palace after coronation, i. 164; food left by the king buried, i. 166; food restrictions in, i. 207, 208; girls secluded at puberty in, ii. 226 London, midsummer pageants in, ii. 281 Longnor, harvest custom at, ii. 25 Lost children, superstition concerning, i. 63 Loucheux Indians, abstinence from the sinew of the thigh by the, ii. 127, 128 Luchon, midsummer fire ceremony at, ii. 282 Lumley, Sir J., excavation of the site of the Diana Nemorensis by, i. 2 _note_ Lüneberg, harvest custom in, i. 377 Lusatia, ceremony of carrying out Death in, i. 259, 264 M’Bengas, life of a child supposed to be bound up with that of a tree by the, ii. 328, 329 Macusis of British Guiana, treatment of girls at the age of puberty by the, ii. 232 _sq._ Madagascar, power ascribed to the souls of the dead in, i. 132; blood of nobles may not be shed in, i. 181; crocodile not killed in, ii. 109, 110 Madenassana bushmen, the goat sacred to the, ii. 56 Madi tribe, burying of the parings of the nails by the, i. 202; lamb killed sacramentally by the, ii. 137, 138 Magic, sympathetic, i. 9-12 —— use of cut hair, i. 198-200 Maiden, a name given to the last handful of corn, i. 344, 345 Maize, mother of the, i. 350-352 Makololo, burning or burying of cut hair by the, i. 205 Malabar, reverence for the cow in, ii. 200 Malagasy, vehicle used by the, for the transference of ills, ii. 149, 150 Malay poem, the external soul in a, ii. 325, 326 Malays and the soul, i. 124; ii. 331; do not touch a man’s head, i. 189 Maldives, cuttings from the hair and nails buried by the natives of the, i. 200 Mamilian tower, ii. 67 Mamurius Veturius or the old Mars, ii. 208-210 Man in cow-skin, ii. 145, 146 —— gods in the South Sea Islands, i. 38, 39 Mandan Indians, and their portraits, i. 148; expulsion of devils by the, ii. 183, 184 Maneros, the name given to the lament of the Egyptian reapers at the cutting of the first sheaf, i. 364 Mangaia, priests called gods in, i. 33; spiritual and temporal government in, i. 120; story of a warrior’s shadow, i. 142, 143 Man-god, two types of, i. 12 Mania, i. 6 “Manii, there are many at Aricia,” explanation of the proverb, ii. 82, 83 Manius Egerius, traditional founder of the Arician Grove, etc., i. 5; ii. 84 Maori ceremonies on entering strange territory, i. 156; the Maoris and dead bodies, i. 169; fear of the blood of women, i. 186; sacredness of the head amongst the, i. 191, 192; ceremony at hair cutting, i. 196, 197; fishing custom, ii. 120; offerings of first-fruits, ii. 381, 382 Mare, the corn-spirit as a, ii. 24-26 Marimos, human sacrifices by the, i. 383, 384 Marktl, harvest ceremonies in the neighbourhood of, ii. 16, 17