Maundy Thursday, i. 125 _n._ 1 Maurer, Konrad, on Icelandic story of the external soul, ii. 125 _n._ 1 May Day in the Isle of Man, i. 157; sheep burnt as a sacrifice on, 306; witches active on, ii. 19, 184 _n._ 4, 185 ——, Eve of, Snake Stones thought to be formed on, i. 15; a witching time, 295; witches active on, ii. 73 May-tree carried about, i. 120, ii. 22 Mayo, County, story of Guleesh in, i. 228 M’Bengas of the Gaboon, birth-trees among the, ii. 160 Mbengga, in Fiji, the fire-walk in, ii. 10 _sq._ Meakin, Budgett, on Midsummer fires in Morocco, i. 214 _n._ Meath, County, Hill of Ward in, i. 139; Uisnech in, 158 Meaux, Midsummer bonfires in the diocese of, i. 182 Mecklenburg, need-fire in, i. 274 _sq._; simples gathered at Midsummer in, ii. 48; mugwort at Midsummer in, 60; the divining-rod in, 67; treatment of the afterbirth in, 165; children passed through a cleft oak as a cure in, 171 _sq._; custom of striking blindfold at a half-buried cock in, 279 _n._ 4 Medicine-bag, instrument of pretended death and resurrection at initiation, ii. 268 _sq._ —— -man in Australia, initiation of, ii. 237 _sqq._ Megara besieged by Minos, ii. 103 Meinersen, in Hanover, i. 275 Meissen or Thuringia, horse’s head thrown into Midsummer fire in, ii. 40 Melanesian conception of the external soul, ii. 197 _sqq._ —— and Papuan stocks in New Guinea, ii. 239 Meleager and the firebrand, story of, ii. 103; and the olive-leaf, 103 _n._ 2 Melur, in the Neilgherry Hills, the fire-walk at, ii. 8 _sq._ Men disguised as women, i. 107 —— and women eat apart, i. 81 _Mên-an-tol_, “holed stone” in Cornwall, ii. 187 Menomini Indians, ritual of death and resurrection among the, ii. 268 _n._ 1 Menstruation, seclusion of girls at the first, i. 22 _sqq._; the first, attributed to defloration by a spirit, 24; reasons for secluding women at, 97 Menstruous blood, the dread of, i. 76. _See also_ Blood —— energy, beneficent applications of, i. 98 _n._ 1 —— fluid, medicinal applications of the, i. 98 _n._ 1