kings of Burma screened from public gaze at, iii. 125 sq.;
the ceremony of head-washing at, iii. 253
Mandan Indians, afraid of having their portraits taken, iii. 97;
their belief as to the stars, iv. 67 sq.;
their personification of maize as an Old Woman, vii. 204 sq.;
their annual expulsion of the devil, ix. 171
Mandarins, deceased, deification of, i. 415
Mandeling, a district of Sumatra, treatment of the afterbirth in, i. 192 sq.;
the King of the Rice in, vii. 197;
respect for tigers in, viii. 216