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, i. 393;
sanctity of burial-grounds among the, ii. 31 sq.;
their offering of first-fruits to the dead, viii. 111;
pile stones on places where witches were burnt, ix. 19
Marburg, in Steiermark, the thresher of last corn disguised as a wolf at, viii. 327
Marcellus of Bordeaux, homoeopathic remedies prescribed by, i. 84;