Menstruous women keep their heads or faces covered, i. 22, 24, 25, 29, 31, 44 _sq._, 48 _sq._, 55, 90, 92; not allowed to cross or bathe in rivers, 77; not allowed to go near water, 77; supposed to spoil fisheries, 77, 78, 90 _sq._, 93; painted red, or red and white, 78; not allowed to use the ordinary paths, 78, 80, 84, 89, 90; not allowed to approach the sea, 79; not allowed to enter cultivated fields, 79; obliged to occupy special huts, 79, 82, 85 _sqq._; supposed to spoil crops, 79, 96; not allowed to cook, 80, 82, 84, 90; not allowed to drink milk, 80, 84; not allowed to handle salt, 81 _sq._, 84; kept from wells, 81, 82, 97; obliged to use separate doors, 84; not allowed to lie on high beds, 84; not allowed to touch or see fire, 84, 85; not allowed to cross the tracks of animals, 84, 91, 93; excluded from religious ceremonies, 85; not allowed to eat with men, 85, 90; thought to spoil the luck of hunters, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94; not allowed to ride horses, 88 _sq._, 96; not allowed to walk on ice of rivers and lakes, 90; dangers to which they are thought to be exposed, 94; not allowed to touch beer, wine or vinegar, 96; not allowed to salt or pickle meat, 96 _n._ 2; not allowed to cross running streams, 97; not allowed to draw water at wells, 97; used to protect fields against insects, 98 _n._ 1 dreaded and secluded in Australia, i. 76 _sqq._, in the Torres Straits Islands, 78 _sq._, in New Guinea, 79, in Galela, 79, in Sumatra, 79, in Africa, 79 _sqq._, among the Jews and in Syria, 83 _sq._, in India, 84 _sq._, in Annam, 85, in America, 85 _sqq._ Mequinez, Midsummer custom at, i. 216 Merolla, J., on seclusion of girls at puberty, i. 31 _n._ 3 Merrakech, in Morocco, Midsummer custom at, i. 216; New Year fires at, 217 Mesopotamia, Atrae in, i. 82 Mespelaer, St. Peter’s fires at, i. 195 Messaria, in Cythnos, ii. 189 Metz, F., on the fire-walk, ii. 9 Metz, cats burnt alive in Midsummer fire at, ii. 39 Mexican ceremony of new fire, i. 132 —— representation of the sun as a wheel, i. 334 _n._ 1 Mexico, effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, i. 127 _sq._; the Zapotecs of, ii. 212 Michael, in the Isle of Man, i. 307 Michaelmas, cakes baked at, i. 149. _See also_ St. Michael Michemis, a Tibetan tribe, a funeral ceremony among the, i. 5 Middle Ages, the Yule log in the, i. 252; the need-fire in the, 270 Midsummer, wells crowned with flowers at, ii. 28; bathing at, 29 _sq._; sacred to Balder, 87. _See also_ St. John’s Day —— bonfire called “fire of heaven,” i. 334; intended to drive away dragons, 161 “—— Brooms” in Sweden, ii. 54 —— Day, charm for fig-trees on, i. 18; water claims human victims on, 26 _sqq._; in ancient Rome, 178; regarded as unlucky, ii. 29