—— Eve, Snake Stones thought to be formed on, i. 15; Trolls and evil spirits abroad on, 172; witches active on, ii. 19; the season for gathering wonderful herbs and flowers, 45 _sqq._; the magic flowers of, 45 _sqq._; divination on, 46 _n._ 3, 50, 52 _sqq._, 61, 64, 67 _sqq._; dreams of love on, 52, 54; fernseed blooms at, 65, 287; the divining-rod cut at, 67 _sqq._; activity of witches and warlocks on, 73 _sqq._; treasures bloom in the earth on, 288 _n._ 5; the oak thought to bloom on, 292, 293 —— festival common to peoples on both sides of the Mediterranean, i. 219, ii. 31; the most important of the year among the primitive Aryans of Europe, 40; its relation to Druidism, 45 —— fires, i. 160 _sqq._; in Wales, 156 —— flowers and plants used as talismans against witchcraft, ii. 72 —— Men, orpine, ii. 61 —— mummers clad in green fir branches, ii. 25 _sq._ Midwinter fires, i. 246 _sqq._ Mijatovich, Chedo, on the _Zadrooga_ or Servian house-community, i. 259 _n._ 1 Mikado not allowed to set foot on ground, i. 2 _sq._; the sun not allowed to shine on him, 18 _sq._ Milk, girls at puberty forbidden to drink, i. 22, 30; libations of, 30; not to be drunk by menstruous women, 80, 84; stolen by witches from cows, 176, 343, ii. 74; omens drawn from boiling, 8; libations of, poured on fire, 8, 9; libations of, poured into a stream, 9; poured on sick cattle, 13 —— and butter thought to be improved by the Midsummer fires, i. 180; stolen by witches at Midsummer, 185; witchcraft fatal to, ii. 86 —— -tie as a bond of kinship, ii. 138 _n._ 1 —— -vessels not to be touched by menstruous women, i. 80 Milking cows through a hole in a branch or a “witch’s nest,” ii. 185 Millaeus on judicial torture, ii. 158 Miller’s wife a witch, story of the, i. 319 _sq._ Miming, a satyr of the woods, i. 103 Minahassa, in Celebes, ceremony at a house-warming in, ii. 153 Minangkabauers of Sumatra, their belief as to menstruous women, i. 79; use of bull-roarers among the, ii. 229 _n._ Minos, king of Crete, besieges Megara, ii. 103 Mint, flowers of, gathered on St. John’s Day, ii. 51 Mirzapur, the Bhuiyars of, i. 84 Misfortune burnt in Midsummer fires, i. 215; got rid of by leaping over Midsummer fires, 215 Missel-thrush and mistletoe, ii. 316 “Mist-healing,” Swiss expression for kindling a need-fire, i. 279