Magical ceremonies for the revival of nature in spring, 266 _sqq._; for the revival of nature in Central Australia, 270 _Maha Makham_, the Great Sacrifice, 49 Mairs, their custom of sacrificing their firstborn sons, 181 Malabar, custom of _Thalavettiparothiam_ in, 53; religious suicide in, 54 _sq._ Malayans, devil-dancers, practise a mock human sacrifice, 216 Malays, their belief in the Spectral Huntsman, 178 Malta, death of the Carnival in, 224 _sq._ Manasseh, King, his sacrifice of his children, 170 Mandans, their notions as to the stars, 67 _sq._ Man-god, reason for killing the, 9 _sq._ Mangaians, their preference for a violent death, 10 Manipur, the Naga tribes of, 11; mode of counting the years in, 117 _n._1; rajahs of, descended from a snake, 133 Mannhardt, W., 249 _n._4, 253, 270 _Manu_, _Laws of_, 188 Maoris, the, 64 Mara tribe of northern Australia, 60 _Mardi Gras_, Shrove Tuesday, 227 Marduk, New Year festival of, 110; his image at Babylon, 113 —— and Tiamat, 105 _sq._, 107 _sq._ _Mareielis_ at Zurich, 260 Marena, Winter or Death, 262 Marketa, the holy, 238 Marriage, mythical and dramatic, of the Sun and Moon, 71, 73 _sq._, 78, 87 _sq._, 92, 105; of brothers and sisters in royal families, 193 _sq._ —— Sacred, of king and queen, 71; of gods and goddesses, 73; of actors disguised as animals, 83; of Zeus and Hera, 91 “Marriage Hollow” at Teltown, 99 Martin, Father, quoted, 141 _sq._ Marzana, goddess of Death, 237 Masai, the, 61, 65; their custom as to the skulls of dead chiefs, 202 _sq._ Masks hung on trees, 283 Masquerades of kings and queens, 71 _sq._, 88, 89 Masson, Bishop, 137 Mata, the small-pox goddess, sacrifice of children to, 181 Matiamvo, a potentate in Angola, the manner of his death, 35 _sq._ Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, 94 _sq._ Mausolus, contests of eloquence in his honour, 95 May, the Queen of, in the Isle of Man, 258; King and Queen of, 266 —— Bride, 266 —— Day in Sweden, 254; in the Isle of Man, 258 —— -tree, 246; horse-race to, 208 —— -trees, 251 _sq._ Mbaya Indians of South America, 140; their custom of infanticide, 197 Medicine-men swinging as a mode of cure, 280 _sq._ Melicertes at the Isthmus of Corinth, 93, 103; in Tenedos, human sacrifices to, 162 Memphis, statues of Summer and Winter at, 259 _n._1 Men and asses, redemption of firstling, 173 Mendes, mummy of Osiris at, 4; the ram-god of, 7 n.2 Menoeceus, his voluntary death, 192 _n._3 Meriahs, human victims among the Khonds, 139 Meroe, Ethiopian kings of, put to death, 15 Merolla, G., quoted, 14 _sq._ Messiah, a pretended, 46 Meteors, superstitions as to, 58 _sqq._ Metis, swallowed by her husband Zeus, 192 _Metsik_, “wood-spirit,” 233, 252 _sq._ Meyer, Professor Kuno, 159 _n._1 Micah, the prophet, on sacrifice, 171, 174