viii. 327

Marcellus of Bordeaux, homoeopathic remedies prescribed by, i. 84; his cure for warts, ix. 48; on transference of toothache to a frog, ix. 50; on transference of asthma to a mule, ix. 50; on transference of an intestinal disorder to a hare, ix. 50 _sq._; on medicines which may not touch the ground, x. 17

March, the old Slavs began the year with, iv. 221 _sq._; festival of Attis in, v. 267; annual expulsion of demons in, ix. 149; annual expulsion of witches in, ix. 157; annual expulsion of evils in, ix. 199; expulsion of Mamurius Veturius in, ix. 229, 231; old Roman year began in, ix. 231, 345; dances of the Salii in, ix. 232; custom of beating people and cattle in, ix. 266; festival of the Matronalia in, ix. 346; marriage festival of all the gods in, ix. 373 _n._ 1; the first month of the year in the oldest Persian calendar, ix. 402; the fire-walk in, xi. 6; mistletoe cut at the full moon of, xi. 84, 86

——, the 1st, sacred fire at Rome annually extinguished on, ii. 267; custom of “Driving out Death” on, iv. 235; wooden effigies of swallows carried about the streets on, viii. 322 _n._; bells rung to make the grass grow on, ix. 247; Roman festival of the Matronalia on, ix. 346

——, the 25th, tradition that Christ was crucified on, v. 306

March moon, woodbine cut in the increase of the, xi. 184

Marco Polo, on beating as a punishment in China, iii. 243 _sq._

_Mardi Gras_, Shrove Tuesday, iv. 227. _See_ Shrove Tuesday

Marduk or Merodach, chief Babylonian god, ix. 356, 357, 399; as a magician, i. 240 _sq._; his wives, ii. 130, v. 71; New Year festival of, iv. 110, ix. 356; his image at Babylon, iv. 113; as a deliverer from demons, ix. 103; the votaries of, ix. 372 _n._ 2

Marduk and Mordecai, ix. 365, 405

—— and Tiamat, iv. 105 _sq._, 107 _sq._

Mare, treatment of the placenta of a, i. 199

—— in foal, last sheaf of corn given to, vii. 160, 162, 168

—— or horse, corn-spirit as, vii. 292 _sqq._; “crying the Mare” at end of reaping in Hertfordshire and Shropshire, vii. 292 _sqq._ _See also_ Mares

_Mareielis_, girls carrying May-trees or wreaths of flowers, at Zurich,