M
Macedonia, Bird tales in, [20];
tales from, [58]
Magic, The Gipsies and, [24]
Magpie, The, aids the devil, [216]
Maiden, The wicked, and the Archangel Michael, [111]
Man and animals, Relation between, [2];
and his years taken over from animals, [336];
and his good and evil angels, [339];
his treatment of the animals recorded for and against his soul, [339];
the pilgrimage of the soul, [341];
the reward of the good man, [346]
Mangiuca, S., [58]
Manichaean teaching in Russia, [53]
Manichaeism, [25], [26], [31], [36], [41], [44], [48], [51]
Mantissa religiosa, [132], [134]
Marian, S. Fl., Ornitologia and Insectele, [58]
Marie de France, [32]
Mariolatry, [49]
Mary, the Virgin, [39];
and the gift of milk, [108];
and the “mower,” [129];
curses the plover, [183];
curses the spider, [184], [185];
search for her Son, [184], [190];
blesses the swallows, [185];
curses the mouse, [185];
mourning after the crucifixion, [186];
turns the mother-in-law into a swallow, [188];
and the frog, [190];
and the tortoise, [192], [193], [194];
and the silkworm, [193];
and the Emperor Pic, [199];
and the cherries, [202];
and the little yellow bird, [205];
at the fountain, [343];
the willow tree, [344];
helps the beasts, [349]
“Metamorphoses” in Greek mythology, [21]
Metempsychosis, [23], [25], [49]
Michael, Archangel, [99], [101], [110];
and the wicked maiden, [111];
loses part of the sole of his foot, [217]
Midrash Abkhir, [92]
Migration of folk tales, [4], [6], [7]
Milham, The bird, [365]
Milk, The Holy Mother and the gift of, [108];
beetles as food to produce milk, [109]
Mill, The devil and the, [80]
Miracles, [204]
Mithras, The bull of, [96]
Mohammedans, Heretics become, [46];
Cathars become, [52]
Mole, The, and the making of the earth, [65], [67];
outwitted by the bee, [68];
why it lives underground, [68];
its hills and burrows, [179]
Mongol invasion, Influence of, [23]–27
Monkey, The, Length and manner of life of, [337].
See Ape
Moon, The Sun and, [72];
stolen, [99];
the new, and a charm against bugs, [224];
slanders the Sun, [359]
Moral character of the stories, [58]
“Morals” to animal tales, [1], [8], [28], [29]
Mosquito, The, origin (Emperor Pic), [199];
a blood-sucker, [200];
the smoke of the devil’s pipe, [201];
as blood taster, [219]
Mother-in-law, The wicked, becomes a swallow, [188]
Mountains, The origin of, [66];
that knock one against the other, [263]
Mouse, The, cursed by the Holy Mother, [185], [186];
enmity of cat against, [208], [209];
the devil as, [211], [214];
the town, and the field mouse, [311];
slanders the cat, [359];
why there is a seam in its mouth, [362]
“Mower” (locust), [127], [129]
Mugur, [285]
Mummers, Fair of the, [221]
Musca Columbaca, [118]
Mythology, Heathen and Christian, [244]