vii. 313;

their offering of first-fruits of sweet potatoes, viii. 133; warriors taste the blood of their slain foes among the, viii. 156; put the first fish caught back into the sea, viii. 252; birth-trees among the, xi. 163

Mar-na, a Philistine deity, ix. 418 _n._ 1

Mara tribe of Northern Australia, burial rites of the, i. 102 _sq._; their rain-making, i. 251; their belief as to falling stars, iv. 60 _sq._; initiation of medicine-men in the, xi. 239

_Marake_, an ordeal of being stung by ants and wasps among the Indians of French Guiana, x. 63 _sq._

Marash, Hittite monuments at, v. 173

Maravars, the, of Southern India, their use of iron as a talisman, iii. 234

Maraves, the, of South Africa, revere a spiritual head called Chissumpe,