Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Minahassa, inspired priests in, 95; ceremony at house-warming in, 186, 679; names of parents-in-law tabooed in, 250; sowing and plucking the new rice in, 482; dummies to deceive demons in, 492; hair of slain foe used to impart courage in, 498; expulsion of devils in, 548 |
| Minnetaree Indians, 419, 529 |
| Minos, king of Cnossus, 280 |
| Minotaur, the legend of the, 280 |
| Minyas, king of Orchomenus, 291 |
| Miracles, god-man expected to work, 93 |
| Miris of Assam, 496 |
| Mirrors, superstitions as to, 192 |
| Mirzapur, rearing of silkworms in, 218 |
| Miscarriage in childbed, dread of, 209 |
| Misrule, Lord of, 585, 586 |
| Missouri, the cottonwood trees in the valley of, 111 |
| Mistletoe, 160, 658, 659, 701; Balder and the, 608, 658–667, 701, 702, 710; and the Golden Bough, 703–704 |
| Mistress, sanctuary of the, at Lycosura, 243; “of Turquoise,” 330 |
| Mithra, Persian deity, 358 |
| Mithraic religion, 467 |
| Mnevis, sacred Egyptian bull, 366, 476 |
| Moab, Arabs of, 32, 378; king of, 293; wilderness of, 334 |
| Mock sun, 79; execution, 283; kings, 284; marriage of human victims, 581 |
| Moffat, Dr. R., 86 |
| Mogk, Professor Eugen, 642 |
| Mohammed bewitched by a Jew, 241 |
| Mohammedan calendar, lunar, 632 |
| Mohammedans, celebration of Midsummer festival by, 632 |
| Moloch, sacrifice of children to, 281 |
| Molonga, a demon of Queensland, 562 |
| Moluccas, the, clove-trees in blossom treated like pregnant women in, 115; fear of offending forest spirits in, 117; abduction of souls in, 186 |
| Mombasa, king of, 99 |
| Mon, island of, 456 |
| Monarchy, in ancient Greece and Rome, 9; rise of, essential to emergence of mankind from savagery, 47 |
| Mondard, the great, 466 |
| Money, magical stones to bring, 33 |
| Mongolia, incarnate human gods in, 103; story of the external soul in, 676 |
| Mongols, 103, 252, 529 |
| Monkey sacrificed for riddance of evils, 569 |
| Montanus the Phrygian, 101 |
| Montezuma, king of Mexico, 104, 593 |
| Moon, the, and Endymion, 4; ceremony at an eclipse of, 78; charm to hasten, 80; Diana conceived as, 141; ceremony at new, 175; human victims sacrificed to, 444; pigs sacrificed to, 472; the “dark,” 557; temple of, 571; reflected in Diana’s Mirror, 711 |
| Mooraba Gosseyn, a Brahman, 100 |
| Moors of Morocco, 540 |
| Moquis of Arizona, 225, 504 |
| Moravia, “carrying out Death” in, 310, 313; harvest customs in, 408; fires to burn witches in, 622 |
| Mori clan of the Bhils, 474 |
| Morning Star, the, 346; human sacrifice enjoined by, 432 |
| Morocco, iron a protection against demons in, 226; annual temporary king in, 286; homoeopathic magic in, 496; boars used to divert evil spirits in, 540; Midsummer fires in, 631, 632, 646 |
| Moru tribe of Central Africa, 534 |
| Mosyni or Mosynoeci, the, 200 |
| Mota, in the New Hebrides, conception of the external soul in, 684 |
| Mother, of a god, 333; of the gods, 5, 348, 356; the Great (Cybele), 353; of the Maize, 413; of the Rice, 415; or Grandmother of Ghosts, 491–493 |
| Mother-corn, 405; -sheaf, 401 |
| —— Goddess of Western Asia, 330, 331 |
| —— -kin, 152, 248, 332 |
| —— -in-law, savage’s dread of his, 190 |
| Motu of New Guinea, 246 |
| Motumotu, the, 81, 192, 246 |
| Mourners, tabooed, 205; change their names, 253 |
| Mouse, soul in form of, 182 |
| Moxos Indians of Bolivia, 23 |
| Mozcas, the, 104 |
| Mukasa, god of the Victoria Nyanza lake, 145 |
| Mukylc´in, the Earth-wife among the Wotyaks, 144 |
| Mullein, used as a charm, 629 |
| Mummers, 126, 127; the Whitsuntide, 296–301; at Hallowe’en in Isle of Man, 633 |
| Mundaris of Assam, 118, 557 |
| Mundas of Bengal, 342 |
| Munster, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, 173 |
| Mura-muras, appealed to for rain, 65 |
| Murderers, taboos imposed on, 216 |
| Murrain, need-fire kindled as a remedy for, 641 |
| Music, as a means of prophetic inspiration, 334; and religion, 334–335 |
| Muysca Indians of Colombia, 104 |
| Muzimbas or Zimbas, the, 97 |
| Myrrh, the mother of Adonis, 337 |
| Mysteries, Eleusinian. See Eleusinian mysteries |
| “Naaman, wounds of the,” 336 |
| Nagual, external soul, 687 |
| Nails, used in magic, 44; knocked into trees, 127; used as charms against fairies, 226 |
| Nails, parings of, used in magic, 13, 233; swallowed by attendants, 229; disposal of, 233–237 |
| Namaquas, 495 |
| Names tabooed: personal, 244–248; of relations, 249–251; of the dead, 251–256; of kings and other sacred persons, 257–259; of gods, 260–262 |
| Namuc and Indra, legend of, 702 |
| Nana, mother of Attis, 347 |
| Nandi of East Africa, 214, 235, 247, 372, 483 |
| Nanumea, island of, precautions against strangers in, 195 |