GENERAL INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Lawson, J. C. (John Cuthbert)
professional, 347
Mouse, omens drawn from, 328
Mouth, as exit of soul, 111
Mummers, at Christmastime and at Carnival, 223 ff.;
representing Callicantzari, 227
Mumming, a survival of Dionysiac festivals, 229 ff.
Murder of kinsman, 425;
legal punishment for, 457
Murdered men as avengers (see Avengers, Revenants)
Murdered persons, avenging their own wrongs, 437 ff.;
bodily activity of, 438;
future lot of, 434 f.;
mutilation of, 435;
personal activity of, 440 ff.;
returning in bodily form, 438
Murderers, future punishment of, 434 ff.;
penalties incurred by, 453 ff.
Mutilation of murdered persons, 435
Mysteries, alleged impurity of, 569 f.;
allusions to, in Tragedy, 550;
associated with funerals, 594 f.;
associated with wedding-rites, 590 f.;
benefits secured by participation in, 38;
Christian attitude towards, 569;
containing no doctrine alien to popular religion, 567;
grades of initiation in, 566;
main doctrines of the, 569;
openly performed in Crete, 568;
of Aphrodite, 581 f.;
of Cybele, 586;
of Demeter, (see below Mysteries of Demeter);
of Dionysus, 582;
parodied by the false prophet Alexander, 588 f.;
Sabazian, 585;
summary of doctrines taught by, 589 f.;
summary of argument concerning, 602 f.;
their doctrines kept secret, 567;
their promises summarised by Theo Smyrnaeus, 566
Mysteries of Demeter, Achaeans excluded from, 567 f.;
ancient references to, 563 f.;