the divining-rod in, [67];

treatment of the afterbirth in, [165];

children passed through a cleft oak as a cure in, [171] sq.;

custom of striking blindfold at a half-buried cock in, [279] n. 4

Medicine-bag, instrument of pretended death and resurrection at initiation, ii. [268] sq.

—— -man in Australia, initiation of, ii. [237] sqq.

Megara besieged by Minos, ii. [103]

Meinersen, in Hanover, i. 275

Meissen or Thuringia, horse's head thrown into Midsummer fire in, ii. [40]

Melanesian conception of the external soul, ii. [197] sqq.