Mid-Lent, the fourth Sunday in Lent, 222 _n._1; also called Dead Sunday, 221; celebration of, 234, 236 _sq._; ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, 240 _sqq._ Midsummer Eve, Russian ceremony on, 262 Mikados, human sacrifices formerly offered at the graves of the, 218 Miltiades, funeral games in his honour, 93 Minahassa, mock human sacrifices in, 214 _sq._ Minorca, seven-legged images of Lent in, 244 _n._1 Minos, king of Cnossus, his reign of eight years, 70 _sqq._; tribute of youths and maidens sent to, 74 _sqq._ —— and Britomartis, 73 Minotaur, legend of the, 71, 74, 75 Minyas, king of Orchomenus, 164 Mnevis, the sacred bull of Heliopolis, 72 Moab, king of, sacrifices his son on the wall, 166, 179 Mock human sacrifices, 214 _sqq._; sacrifices of finger-joints, 219 —— sultan in Morocco, 152 _sq._ Mohammedan belief as to falling stars, 63 _sq._ Moloch, sacrifice of children to, 75, 168 _sqq._ Moon represented by a cow, 71 _sq._; myth of the setting and rising, 73; married to Endymion, 90 —— and sun, mythical and dramatic marriage of the, 71, 73 _sq._, 78, 87 _sq._, 92, 105 Morasas, the, 219 Moravia, “Carrying out Death” in, 238 _sq._, 249 Morocco, annual temporary king in, 152 _sq._ Mortality of the gods, 1 _sqq._ Moschus, 73 _n._1 Moss, W., 284 _n._4 Mother of the Grape-cluster, 8 Moulton, Professor J. H., 124 _n._1 Mounds, sepulchral, 93, 96, 100, 104 Mulai Rasheed II., 153 Müller, K. O., 59, 69 _n._1, 90, 165 _n._1, 166 _n._1 Mumbo Jumbos, 178 Mummers, the Whitsuntide, 205 _sqq._ Murderers, their bodies destroyed, 11 Mutch, Captain J. S., 259 _n._1 Mysore, mimic rite of circumcision in, 220 Myths of creation, 106 _sqq._ Nabu, a Babylonian god, 110 Naga tribes of Manipur, 11 Nagpur, the cobra the crest of the Maharajah of, 132 _sq._ Namaquas, the, 61 Natural death regarded as a calamity, 11 _sq._ Nauroz and Eed festivals, 279 Nemean games celebrated in honour of Opheltes, 93 Nemi, priest of, 28, 212 _sq._, 220; King of the Wood at, 205 _sq._, 212 _sqq._ Nephele, wife of King Athamas, 161 New Britain, 65 —— Guinea, the Papuans of, 287 —— Hebrides, burial alive in the, 12 —— South Wales, sacrifice of firstborn children among the aborigines of, 179 _sq._ Ngarigo, the, of New South Wales, 60 Ngoio, a province of Congo, 118 _sq._ Nias, custom of succession to the chieftainship in, 198 _sq._; mock human sacrifices at funerals in, 216 Nicobarese, their sham-fights to gratify the dead, 96 Niederpöring in Bavaria, Whitsuntide custom at, 206 _sq._ Niué or Savage Island, 219 Nöldeke, Professor Th., 179 _n._4 Normandy, Burial of Shrove Tuesday in, 228 Norsemen, their custom of wounding the dying, 13 _sq._ North Africa, festivals of swinging in, 284 —— American Indians, their funeral celebrations, 97; their firm belief in immortality, 137 Nyakang, founder of the dynasty of Shilluk kings, 18 _sqq._ Nyikpla or Nyigbla, a negro divinity, 61