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