Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Marquesas or Washington Islands, human gods in the, 96 |
| Marriage, of men and women to trees, 8; treading on a stone at, 33; the pole-star at, 34; of the Sun and Earth, 136, 145; the Sacred, 139–146; of the Gods, 142–145; consummation of, prevented by knots, 240; mock or real, of human victims, 581 |
| Marriott, Fitzgerald, 26 |
| Mars, 577, 578; temple of, 77; the planet, 444; Field of, 478 |
| Mars Silvanus, 578 |
| Marsaba, a devil, 696 |
| Marseilles, human scapegoats at, 578; Midsummer king of the double axe at, 630 |
| Marsh marigold, hoop wreathed with, 121 |
| Marsyas, his musical contest with Apollo, 354; perhaps a double of Attis, 354 |
| Martens, magic to snare, 18 |
| Masai of East Africa, 219, 232, 238 |
| Mashona of South Africa, 98 |
| Masks worn by devil-dancers, 542; at expulsion of demons, 548, 553; by members of a secret Wolf society, 699 |
| Maspero, Sir Gaston, 53 |
| “Mass of the Holy Spirit,” 53 |
| Mass of Saint Sécaire, 54 |
| Massagetae sacrifice horses to the sun, 79 |
| Masset, in Queen Charlotte Islands, dances of Haida women at, 27 |
| Matabele, the, 72, 645 |
| Matacos or Mataguayos, the, 601 |
| Matiamvo, a potentate in Angola, 271 |
| Matuana, Zulu chief, 498 |
| May, King of, 129, 130, 299; King and Queen of, 157, 320; Queen of, 129, 131 |
| May Bride, 135, 317, 320; Bridegroom, 133; Lady, in Cambridge, 127; Rose, the Little, 125 |
| —— Day, celebration of, 119–135, 316, 621; “Burning out of the Witches” on, 560; bonfires on, 617–622 |
| May-bushes, 119, 129, 130, 132; -garlands, 121; -poles, 119, 120, 122–124, 132, 479; -trees, 119–121, 123, 124, 297, 299, 311, 314, 614, 651 |
| Mbaya Indians, the, 293 |
| M’Bengas of the Gaboon, 681 |
| Mecca, pilgrims to, 238 |
| Mecklenburg, magic in, 44; locks unlocked at childbirth in, 239; harvest customs in, 430, 449, 454; treatment of the afterbirth in, 682 |
| Medea and Aeson, 496 |
| Medicine bag, at initiation, 698 |
| —— men, 64, 85, 87, 88, 92, 105, 180, 183–187, 484, 520, 679, 693 |
| Melanesia, homoeopathic magic of stones in, 33; contagious magic of wounds in, 41; confusion of magic and religion in, 52; supernatural power of chiefs in, 84; continence while yam vines are being trained in, 138; malignant spirits in, 192; disposal of cut hair and nails in, 235; names of relations by marriage tabooed in, 251; conception of the external soul in, 684 |
| Melanesians, 52, 246 |
| Melicertes, son of King Athamas, 290, 291 |
| Melos, milk-stones in, 34 |
| Memphis, head of Osiris at, 366 |
| Men, evil transferred to, 542; disguised as demons, 562, 563; as scapegoats, 565; divine, as scapegoats, 571, 576; disguised as women, 610 |
| Menedemus, sacrifices to, 224 |
| Menelik, Emperor of Abyssinia, 66 |
| Menstruation, women tabooed at, 207; seclusion of girls at, 595; reasons for secluding women at, 606 |
| Meriahs, human victims sacrificed among the Khonds, 434, 437 |
| Merlin, the wizard, 76 |
| Meroe, Ethiopian kings of, 266 |
| Mesopotamia, artificial fertilisation of the date-palm in, 582 |
| Messiah, pretended, in America, 102 |
| Metsik, a forest-spirit, 315 |
| Mexican kings, their oath, 87, 104; sacraments, 488; temples, 589 |
| Mexicans, the ancient, 79, 380, 432 |
| Mexico, ancient, festival in honour of the goddess of maize, 28; treatment of the navel-string in, 40; human sacrifices in, 380, 431, 432; killing the god in, 587–592 |
| Micah, the prophet, 51 |
| Mice, in magic, 39; eaten by the Jews as a religious rite, 472; superstitious precautions of farmers against, 530, 531 |
| Midsummer, death of the spirit of vegetation celebrated at, 319; bonfire at, called “fire of heaven,” 644; procession of giants at, 654; sacred to Balder, 664 |
| Midsummer bonfires, 122, 622. See also Midsummer fires |
| —— Bride and Bridegroom, 133 |
| —— Day, ancient Roman festival of, 153. See also St. John’s Day |
| —— Eve, in Sweden, 122; in Russia, 318; trolls and evil spirits abroad on, 625; oak thought to bloom on, 706. See also St. John’s Eve |
| —— festival, in Europe, 153, 622; named after St. John, 343; the most important of the year among the primitive Aryans of Europe, 656 |
| —— fires, 622–632; animals burnt in, 655 |
| Midwinter fires, 636 |
| Mikado of Japan, 168, 169, 176, 202, 593, 595 |
| Miklucho-Maclay, Baron, 197 |
| Milk, women’s, promoted by milk-stones, 34; of cows, thought to be promoted by green boughs, 119; customs observed when the king of Bunyoro drinks, 199; of pig thought to cause leprosy, 472, 473; omens from boiling, 482; taboos referring to, 488; not to be drunk by menstruous women, 604; stolen by witches from cows, 620, 627, 628, 648 |
| Milk-stones, magical, 34 |
| Milkmen of the Todas sacred or divine, 100; taboos of, 175 |
| Millet, homoeopathic magic of, 29; the deity of, 481 |
| Minangkabauers of Sumatra, 180, 183, 415, 604 |