Menedemus, sacrifices without the use of iron to, iii. 226 sq.

Menelaus, husband of Helen and king of Sparta, ii. 279

Menelik, Emperor of Abyssinia, forbids sanguinary fights for purpose of procuring rain, i. 258

Mengap, a Dyak liturgy, ix. 383

Menoeceus, his voluntary death, iv. 192 n. 3

Menomini Indians, ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268 n. 1

Menstruation, women tabooed at, iii. 145 sqq.;

seclusion of girls at the first, x. 22 sqq.;

the first, attributed to defloration by a spirit, x. 24;

reasons for secluding women at, x. 97