iv. 260

Marena, Winter or Death, on Midsummer Eve in Russia, iv. 262

Mares in homoeopathic magic, i. 152, 153

Marett, R. R., on taboo as negative magic, i. 111 _n._ 2

_Margas_, exogamous totemic clans of the Battas of Sumatra, xi. 222 _sq._

Mariandynian reapers, mournful song of, vii. 216

Marianne Islands, precautions as to spittle in the, iii. 288

Mariette-Pacha, A., on the burial of Osiris, vi. 89 _n._

Marigolds, magic of, i. 211; used to adorn tombstones on All Souls’ Day, vi. 71. _See also_ Marsh-marigolds

Marilaun, A. Kerner von, on mistletoe, xi. 318 _n._ 6

Marimos, a Bechuana tribe, their human sacrifices for the crops, vii. 240, 251

Mariner, W., on taboo in Tonga, iii. 140; on the sacrifice of first-fruits in the Tonga Islands, viii. 128 _sqq._

Mariners at sea, special language employed by, iii. 413 _sqq._

Marjoram a protection against witchcraft, ix. 160, xi. 74; burnt at Midsummer, x. 214; gathered at Midsummer, xi. 51

Mark of Brandenburg, fruit-trees girt with straw at Christmas in the, ii. 17; race of bride and bridegroom in the, ii. 303; name of mice tabooed between Christmas and Twelfth Night in the, iii. 397; need-fire in the, x. 273; simples culled at Midsummer in the, xi. 48; St. John’s blood in the, xi. 56; the divining-rod in the, xi. 67

Marketa, the holy, prayed to for good crops in Bohemia, iv. 238

Marks, bodily, of prophets, v. 74

Marksuhl, near Eisenach, harvest custom at, vii. 231

Marktl, in Bavaria, the Straw-goat at threshing at, vii. 286

Marno, Ernst, on the reverence of the Nuehr for their cattle, viii. 39

Maroni river in Guiana, i. 156

Marotse. _See_ Barotse

Marquesans, their way of detaining the soul in the body, iii. 31; their regard for the sanctity of the head, iii. 254 _sq._; their customs as to the hair, iii. 261 _sq._; their dread of sorcery, iii. 268

Marquesas or Washington Islands, human gods in the, i. 386 _sq._; extinction of fires after a death in the, ii. 268 _n._; seclusion of manslayers in the, iii. 178; continence at making coco-nut oil and at baking in the, iii. 201; custom at childbirth in the, iii. 245; the fire-walk in the, xi. 11

Marriage of trees to each other, i. 24 _sqq._; of men and women to trees, i. 40 _sq._, ii. 57; treading on a stone at, i. 160; bath before, i. 162; the pole-star at, i. 166; second, third, or fourth, regarded as unlucky, ii. 57 _n._ 4; of Earth in spring, ii. 76, 94; to a palm-tree before tapping it, ii. 101; of near kin, the prohibition of, perhaps based historically on superstition, ii. 117; of girls to spirits of lakes, ii. 150 _sq._; of girls to rivers, ii. 151 _sq._; with king’s widow constitutes a claim to the kingdom, ii. 281 _sqq._,