322 



PRIMITIVE PATERNITY 



Massagetai. Sexual morality ii. 

 130 



Masur women, prescription against 

 barrenness i. 68 



Mbondemos. Premature mar- 

 riages ii. 269. 



Melanesia. Chastity, value of 

 ii. , 148. Marriage customs 

 (Rotuma) ii. 36. Sexual 

 morality ii. 148-151 



See Banks Islands, Fiji, 

 New Caledonia, New Hebri- 

 des, Papua, Solomon Islands, 

 Sulkas 



Menangkabau Malays. Matri- 

 monial relations ii. 10. Super- 

 natural Birth i. 6 



Menstruation, cause of ii. 263, 



273 



Merine. Sexual morality ii. 200 



Mexico. Barrenness, cures for i. 

 40, 80, 146. Calabash-tree 

 and tobacco, origin of i. 166. 

 Mankind, origin of i. 74. 

 Naming child i. 225. Sexual 

 relations of Tarahumare ii. 

 239 



Middle Ages. Fancies respecting 

 birth of Jesus Christ i. 19-21. 

 Nostrums to obtain chidren i. 

 55, Peasant Custumals (Ger- 

 many) i. 323 



Midsummer Day rites i. 99; ii. 

 191 



Mikirs. Marriage customs ii. 

 46 n. Re-birth i. 212 



Milk against sterility i. 55, 62, 118, 

 120. Human i. 70 



Minahassa see Celebes 



Mistletoe i. 32 



Mohammedan law. Kinship i. 

 287, 321. Marriage ii. 5, 6. 

 Paternity i. 312, 321 



Mojave. Supernatural Birth i. 

 24 



Moluccas. Children, rites to pro- 

 cure i. 60, 85, 135, 139. Death 

 in child-bed, rites i. 173. 

 Licentious festivals ii. 126, 

 127. Marriage customs ii. 

 27-33. Sexual morality ii. 

 126, 138, 259. Star, con- 

 ception by i. 98. Supernatural 



Birth i. 22, 98. Tree of 

 Sorrow i. 160. Tree planted 

 on grave i. 162. Transforma- 

 tion after death i. 174 



Monbuttu. Sexual morality ii. 

 200 



Montezuma i. 24 



Moon, fecundation by i. 26, 98 



Moquis see Hopi 



Mordvins. Barren women, rites 

 by i. 83. Licentiousness ii. 

 1 86. Marriage custom i. 58 



Morocco. Amulets i. 119. Barren 

 women bathe i. 80 



Mortlock Islands. Marriage cus- 

 toms ii. 36. Motherright and 

 local exogamy i. 269 



Mosquito Indians. Sexual mo- 

 rality ii. 239 



Mother-in-law taboo ii. 93 



Motherright i. 253-325; ii. 1-3. 

 Bloodfeud in i. 272-275. 

 Children of same father by 

 different mothers not akin i. 

 264, 265. Father, alien posi- 

 tion of i. 262-300 ; ii. i. 

 Father and son combat i. 

 269. Fatherright, transition 

 to ii. 2, 92-100, 139. Husband 

 and father, responsibility of 

 i. 275-279. Paternity, un- 

 certainty of, as reason for i. 

 300-325. Potestas in i. 281- 

 300 



Mouth, conception by i. 12, 151. 

 See Drinking, Eating 



Muetter i. 137 



Murray Islands see Torres 

 Straits 



Musquakies. Children, burial of 

 i. 226, 232. Marriage customs 

 ii. 68. Sexual relations (Foxes) 

 ii. 233 



Myddfai, Physicians of i. 32 



NAMBUTIRI Brahmans. Illatom, 

 custom of ii. 41 n. Marriage 

 rules i. 266. Nayars, relations 

 with i. 267, 269 



Naming child after ancestor i. 205- 

 207, 211-213, 215, 217, 223- 

 226. After saint i. 223 n 



