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Macedonia, Bird tales in, 20;
tales from, 58
Magic, The Gipsies and, 24
Magpie, The, aids the devil, 216
Maiden, The wicked, and the Archangel Michael, 111
Man and animals, Relation between, 2;
and his years taken over from animals, 336;
and his good and evil angels, 339;
his treatment of the animals recorded for and against his soul, 339;
the pilgrimage of the soul, 341;
the reward of the good man, 346
Mangiuca, S., 58
Manichaean teaching in Russia, 53
Manichaeism, 25, 26, 31, 36, 41, 44, 48, 51
Marian, S. Fl., Ornitologia and Insectele, 58
Marie de France, 32
Mariolatry, 49
Mary, the Virgin, 39;
and the gift of milk, 108;
and the “mower,” 129;
curses the plover, 183;
curses the spider, 184, 185;
search for her Son, 184, 190;
blesses the swallows, 185;
curses the mouse, 185;
mourning after the crucifixion, 186;
turns the mother-in-law into a swallow, 188;
and the frog, 190;
and the tortoise, 192, 193, 194;
and the silkworm, 193;
and the Emperor Pic, 199;
and the cherries, 202;
and the little yellow bird, 205;
at the fountain, 343;
the willow tree, 344;
helps the beasts, 349
“Metamorphoses” in Greek mythology, 21
Michael, Archangel, 99, 101, 110;
and the wicked maiden, 111;
loses part of the sole of his foot, 217
Midrash Abkhir, 92
Migration of folk tales, 4, 6, 7
Milham, The bird, 365
Milk, The Holy Mother and the gift of, 108;
beetles as food to produce milk, 109
Mill, The devil and the, 80
Miracles, 204
Mithras, The bull of, 96
Mohammedans, Heretics become, 46;
Cathars become, 52
Mole, The, and the making of the earth, 65, 67;
outwitted by the bee, 68;
why it lives underground, 68;
its hills and burrows, 179
Mongol invasion, Influence of, 23–27
Monkey, The, Length and manner of life of, 337.
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Moon, The Sun and, 72;
stolen, 99;
the new, and a charm against bugs, 224;
slanders the Sun, 359
Moral character of the stories, 58
“Morals” to animal tales, 1, 8, 28, 29
Mosquito, The, origin (Emperor Pic), 199;
a blood-sucker, 200;
the smoke of the devil’s pipe, 201;
as blood taster, 219
Mother-in-law, The wicked, becomes a swallow, 188
Mountains, The origin of, 66;
that knock one against the other, 263
Mouse, The, cursed by the Holy Mother, 185, 186;
enmity of cat against, 208, 209;
the devil as, 211, 214;
the town, and the field mouse, 311;
slanders the cat, 359;
why there is a seam in its mouth, 362
Mugur, 285
Mummers, Fair of the, 221
Musca Columbaca, 118
Mythology, Heathen and Christian, 244
