—— bathing, pagan origin of the custom, i. 249
—— Bride and Bridegroom in Sweden, i. 251
—— Day or Eve, custom of bathing on, i. 246 sqq.
—— fires and couples in relation to vegetation, i. 250 sq.;
leaping over the fires to make flax or hemp grow tall, 251
Milcom, the god of Ammon, i. 19
Milk, serpents fed with, i. 84 sqq., 87;
offered at graves, 87
Mill, women mourning for Tammuz eat nothing ground in a mill, i. 230
Milne, Mrs. Leslie, on the Shans, ii. [136]