Mephitic vapours, worship of, v. 203 sqq.

Mequinez in Morocco, custom of throwing water on each other at Midsummer at, x. 216

Mercato Nuovo at Florence, the Old Woman sawn through at Mid-Lent in the, iv. 241

Mercurial temperament of merchants and sailors, vi. 218

Merenra, king of Egypt, worshipped in his lifetime, i. 418

Meriahs, human victims sacrificed for good crops among the Khonds, iv. 139, vii. 245, 246, 249, 250

Merkel, R., on the grove of Helernus, ii. 190 n. 2

Merker, Captain M., on the power of medicine-men among the Masai, i. 343 sq.

Merlin, the wizard, his magic sleep, i. 306

Merodach or Marduk, Babylonian deity, ix. 356. See Marduk