Mid-Lent, the fourth Sunday in Lent, [222] n.1;
also called Dead Sunday, [221];
celebration of, [234], [236] sq.;
ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” at, [240] sqq.
Midsummer Eve, Russian ceremony on, [262]
Mikados, human sacrifices formerly offered at the graves of the, [218]
Miltiades, funeral games in his honour, [93]
Minahassa, mock human sacrifices in, [214] sq.
Minorca, seven-legged images of Lent in, [244] n.1
Minos, king of Cnossus, his reign of eight years, [70] sqq.;