Local accounts recorded in the cited ethnographic summaries report that the Mara claim descent from two brothers, Kangra and Mara, who came from Nyime (Tibet) and settled in the region. This migration/ancestry narrative is presented as an ethnic origin tradition rather than a myth of a supernatural being.
Sources do not describe a supernatural appearance. Descriptive detail pertains to the human community: the Mara inhabit Limeking and are described in accounts of frontier peoples and trade networks. Ethnographic notes emphasize their identity as a Tagin subgroup and proximity to neighbouring groups such as the Nga (Na).
No supernatural powers are attributed in the supplied material. The documented activities of the Mara are cultural and economic: they engaged in barter trade with Tibetan communities (exchanging ornaments and Tibetan dao) and with southern neighbours (trading mithun, tribal masks, animal hides, and plant dyes). Religiously, they subscribe to Donyi Polo and have long-standing Tibetan Buddhist influence.
Mantineus
Mantineus (Greek: Μαντινεύς) is a mythic human figure of ancient Greek tradition: an Arcadian prince, one of the fifty sons of King Lycaon, and an eponymous founder-figure credited with the origin of the city Mantineia. He appears in the Lycaon cycle as a member of a household punished by Zeus for sacrilege and is also preserved in local foundation-memory and inscriptions linking the name to civic places.
Manto (daughter of Teiresias)
Manto is a named figure in classical mythological lists identified in the supplied sources as a daughter of the seer Teiresias. The provided materials record her genealogical identity but do not supply narratives, descriptions, or ritual material concerning her.
Mar-Vell (Captain Marvel)
Mar‑Vell is a fictional Kree military officer — the original Captain Marvel in Marvel Comics continuity, created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan and first appearing in Marvel Super‑Heroes #12 (December 1967). Within the comics he serves as a Kree Imperial Militia observer who becomes an Earth‑based heroic figure and appears across multiple comic‑book storylines and adaptations.
Mara
A nocturnal malevolent spirit in Germanic and Slavic folk belief that sits on or 'rides' sleepers' chests to produce nightmares and the sensations associated with sleep paralysis. Frequently depicted as female and possessing magical abilities such as shapeshifting, the mara functions as an agentive folk explanation for oppressive nocturnal experiences.
Mara
The nightmare spirit of Northern European tradition who rides sleeping people at night, causing suffocation, terror, and the sensation of an invisible weight on the chest.
Mara (Iza)
Mara (Iza) is a geographic feature — a left-bank tributary of the river Iza in northern Romania. The supplied sources document it as a physical river with measured length, basin area, and a noted tributary; no supernatural or folkloric being named "Mara (Iza)" is attested in the provided materials.
Mara Jade
Mara Jade is a fictional human character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe (Legends). Introduced in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, she is introduced as the Emperor's Hand (an operative for Palpatine), later a smuggler and ultimately a Force-sensitive Jedi who becomes Luke Skywalker's wife and, after her death in later Legends continuity, appears as a Force spirit.
Marassa (Marassas, Marassa Jumeaux)
In Haitian Vodou the Marassa (Marassas, Marassa Jumeaux) are described as divine twins: childlike yet presented as older than other loa and as personifications of core moral and cosmological principles. Sources characterize them as paradoxical 'children mysteries' who synthesize aspects of the loa and are linked to love, truth, justice, reason, and astronomic‑astrological learning.
Marbas
Marbas is a named entry in Western goetic grimoire lists (Ars Goetia and related demonological catalogues) and the name has been reused in various modern secular contexts (music, companies, fiction). The supplied sources do not provide primary folkloric narratives, physical descriptions, or detailed ritual material for Marbas.
Marchosias
Marchosias is a named marquis-level spirit from the Goetic grimoire tradition, depicted as a martial, lupine, fire-breathing being who commands legions and can be summoned and bound by ceremonial conjuration. Modern sources reinterpret Marchosias variously as a dangerous ally or narrative combatant in fiction and games.
Mare (folklore)
A nocturnal malicious spirit from Germanic and neighboring Slavic popular belief that afflicts sleepers and animals by 'riding' or pressing on chests, producing nightmares, sleep‑suffocation, night‑sweats, and exhausted animals. The mare overlaps with related Germanic night‑beings (alp, Mahr, Trute/Drude) and appears in varied regional tale forms and household practices.
Mares of Diomedes
A herd of man-eating horses belonging to the Thracian chieftain Diomedes, famed as the eighth labour of Heracles. They are monstrous animals whose carnivorous habit and violence against guests make them a canonical threat in Greek heroic narrative.
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