Meiron, in Galilee, burnings for dead Jewish Rabbis at, i. 178 sq.
Mela's description of the Corycian cave, i. 155 n., 156
Melanesia, belief in conception without sexual intercourse in, i. 97 sq.
Melanesian magicians buried secretly, ii. [105]
Melanesians, mother-kin among the, ii. [211];
of New Britain, their use of flowers and leaves as talismans, [242] sq.
Melcarth, the god of Tyre, identified with Hercules, i. 16, 111;
worshipped at Amathus in Cyprus, 32, 117;
the burning of, 110 sqq.;
worshipped at Gades, 112 sq., ii. [258] n. 5