Magical bone in sorcery, i. 14 —— implements not allowed to touch the ground, i. 14 _sq._ —— influence of medicine-bag, ii. 268 —— virtues of plants at Midsummer apparently derived from the sun, ii. 71 _sq._ Magician’s apprentice, Danish story of the, ii. 121 _sqq._ —— Glass, the, i. 16 Magyars, Midsummer fires among the, i. 178 _sq._; stories of the external soul among the, ii. 139 _sq._ _Mahabharata_, Draupadi and her five husbands in the, ii. 7 “Maiden-flax” at Midsummer, ii. 48 Maidu Indians of California, seclusion of girls at puberty among the, i. 42; their notion as to fire in trees, ii. 295; their idea of lightning, 298 Maimonides, on the seclusion of menstruous women, i. 83 Makalanga, a Bantu tribe, i. 135 _n._ 2 _Makral_, “the witch,” i. 107 Malabar, the Iluvans of, i. 5; the Tiyans of, 68 Malassi, a fetish in West Africa, ii. 256 Malay belief as to sympathetic relation between man and animal, ii. 197 —— story of the external soul, ii. 147 _sq._ Malayo-Siamese families of the Patani States, their custom as to the afterbirth, ii. 163 _sq._ Malays of the Peninsula, their doctrine of the plurality of souls, ii. 222 Male and female souls in Chinese philosophy, ii. 221 Malkin Tower, witches at the, i. 245 Malta, fires on St. John’s Eve in, i. 210 _sq._ _Malurus cyaneus_, superb warbler, women’s “sister,” among the Kurnai, ii. 216 Man and animal, sympathetic relation between, ii. 272 _sq._ Man, the Isle of, Midsummer fires in, i. 201, 337; old New Year’s Day in, 224 _sq._; Hallowe’en customs in, 243 _sq._; bonfires on St. Thomas’s Day in, 266; cattle burnt alive to stop a murrain in, 325 _sqq._; mugwort gathered on Midsummer Eve in, ii. 59. _See also_ Isle of Man Manchu dynasty, the life-tree of the, ii. 167 _sq._ Mandragora, “the hand of glory,” ii. 316 Mang’anje woman, her external soul, ii. 157 Mango tree, festival of wild, i. 7 _sqq._; ceremony for the fertilization of the, 10 _Manitoo_, personal totem, ii. 273 _n._ 1 Mannhardt, W., on fire-customs, i. 106 _n._ 3; on burning leaf-clad representative of spirit of vegetation, 25; his theory that the fires of the fire-festivals are charms to secure sunshine, 329, 331 _sqq._; on torches as imitations of lightning, 340 _n._ 1; on the Hirpi Sorani, ii. 15 _n._; on the human victims sacrificed by the Celts, 33; his theory of the Druidical sacrifices, 43; his solar theory of the bonfires at the European fire-festivals, 72; on killing a cock on the harvest-field, 280 _n._ _Mantis religiosus_, a totem, ii. 248 _n._ Manu, Hindoo lawgiver, on the uncleanness of women at menstruation, i. 95; the Laws of, on the three births of the Aryan, ii. 276 _sq._ Manx mummers at Hallowe’en, i. 224 Maoris, birth-trees among the, ii. 163 Mara tribe of Northern Australia, initiation of medicine-men in the, ii. 239