Marriage, customs and ceremonies at, [368]–396;
decorations, [369]–373;
accessories, [373], [374];
finger-staining at, [375]–377;
costumes, [378], [379];
ceremonial rice used at, [379], [380], [383];
lustrations at, [380], [385]–388;
mimic conflict at, [381], [382];
sitting in state at, [383], [384];
royal character of the married pair, [388];
accounts of two weddings, [388]–394;
forcible abduction with a view to, [394]–396
Maswara (Maheswara), [86] (note), [545], [546]
Ma’yong, invocations and ceremonies used when opening site for a, [504]–512;
tunes, [513];
instruments and costumes, [518]
Medicine, [346], [347], [408]–457;
magic character of the diagnosis in, [409]–414;
propitiatory ceremonies used in, [414]–424;
neutralising poisons by, [424]–427;
expelling evil influences by, [427]–452;
taboos in, [437], [577];
recalling the soul by, [452]–456, [577];
an orthodox view of, [456], [457]
Medicine-men, see Magicians
Metamorphoses, [53]–55, [121]–123, [126], [129]–131, [152], [160]–163, [170], [185]–187, [190]–192, [201], [205], [262], [283]–286, [302], [206]–309
Midwife, engaging a, [332], [333]
Minerals, souls of, [52];
ideas and ceremonies connected with, [250]–277
Mining, tin, [250]–271;
magicians, [253]–257, [261]–263;
taboos, [254]–259, [263]–265, [269], [271], [272];
charms, [265]–271, [273];
gold, [271], [272];
silver, [272], [273]
Mischiefs, see Badi