-- a 'shape-shifter,' 126

Infinite, the, 206

Initiation (_see_ 'Mysteries')

Ioxidae, 119

Iron, a tabooed metal, 64

-- the birth of, 169

-- in Vedic India, 217

Iroquois, 36, 110

Isaiah, 115

Isis, 130

Israel, Totems of, 115

Jacob, _Verge de_, 187

Japanese, 93

Jason, 5

-- the myth of, 87-102

-- the Red Indian parallel, 99

-- Samoan parallel, 97

Job Ben Solomon never saw his wife, 72

Jonah, 55

Jurupari pipes, 43

Kaffir swallowing myth, 54

Kaffirs, 38, 218

Kalevala, 100, 156-179

Kamilaroi, 34

_Karnos_, _Karnu_, _Keren_, 60

_Kathasarit sagara_, 92

Kohl, 80

~Konos~, 39

_Krana_, 59

Krishna, 170

~Kronides~, 57, 58

~Kronion~, 57

~Kronos~, 57, 61

Kuhn, 59, 68, 69

-- differs from Mr. Max Mueller on etymology of Urvasi and Pururavas, 70

-- sees fire myths everywhere, 70

Kurnai, 34

Kwai Hemm, 53

Lafitau, 36, 73

Language and thought, 211

-- childhood of, 218

Liebrecht, 70, 71, 112

Lightning, 117

Loftie, Mr., 113

Long on 'Totamism,' 105

Loennrot, 160

Lucian, 41

Lyons, murder at, 191

M'Lennan, Mr., on the family, 245-275

Magic, 146

-- Algonquin, 99

-- in Vedas, 241

-- note of lower culture, 78

Maine, Sir Henry, on the family, 245-275

Maize, superstition about, 20

Malagasy Maerchen, 93

Malebranche, 190

Mandragora, 143-155

Mandrake, 144-152

Manabozho, 293

Mantis insect, 53, 208

Maoris, art of, 286

-- myths of, 45-50

Maerchen--
Algonquin, 82
Bornoese, 82
Dutch, 76
features of, 157, 158, 163
of _Nicht Nought Nothing_, 89
of Swan Maidens, 82
Russian, 93, 171
Scotch, 89
South African, 171
West Highland, 93

Marriage, early, 245-275

-- law of exogamy in, 24, 102

-- in connection with Totemism, 106-107

Master of Life, 105

Medea recognised as Moon, 96

-- as Lightning, 96

Melanesia, 55, 146

Melanesian myths, 56

_Melusine_, 117

-- myth of, 76

Merman, forsaken, 76

Mexico, 16

Meyer, 66

Milky Way, 122

Mimnermus, 95

Moloch, 62

Moluna, Christoval de, 105