Chapter 18

23 _Teutonic Mythology_, by Jacob Grimm. Translated by J. S. Stallybrass. London, 1883, ii. 717.

24 _De Natura Rerum_. MS. Harl. No. 3737.

25 MS. Harl. No. 2253, 81.

26 _The Archaeological Journal_ for March, 1848, pp. 66, 67.

27 See Tyrwhitt's _Chaucer_. London, 1843, p. 448.

28 Dekker's _Dramatic Works_. Reprinted, London, 1873, ii. 121.

29 _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. Robert Chambers. London and Edinburgh, 1870, p. 185.

30 _Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales_, by J. O. Halliwell. London, 1849, p. 228.

31 _Curious Myths_, p. 197.

32 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 719-20.

33 _The Vision of Dante Alighieri_. Translated by the Rev. H. F. Cary, A.M. London.

34 _The Folk-Lore of China_, by N. B. Dennys, Ph.D. London and Hong Kong, 1876, p. 117.

35 _Himalayan Journals_, by Joseph D. Hooker, M.D., R.N., F.R.S. London, 1855, ii. 278.

36 _Primitive Culture_, by Edward B. Tyler. London, 1871, i 320.

37 _A Brief Account of Bushman Folk-Lore_, by W. H. J. Bleek, Ph.D. Cape Town, 1875, p. 9.

38 _The History of Greenland_, from the German of David Cranz. London, 1820, i. 212.

39 _An Arctic Boat Journey in the Autumn of 1854_, by Isaac J. Hayes, M.D. Boston, U.S., 1883, p. 254.

40 _The Natural Genesis_, by Gerald Massey. London, 1883, i. 115.

41 _The Church Missionary Intelligencer_ for November, 1858, p. 249.

42 _Ibid._, for April, 1865, p. 116.

43 See _Notes and Queries_. First Series. Vol. xi. p. 493.

44 _Researches into the Early History of Mankind_, by Edward B. Tylor, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. London, 1878, p. 378.

45 _Ibid.,_ p. 336.

46 _Notes and Queries: on China and Japan_. Hong Kong, August, 1869, p, 123.

47 _Selected Essays on Language, Mythology, and Religion_. London, 1881, i. 613.

48 _Vico_, by Robert Flint. Edinburgh, 1884, p. 210.

49 _The Dictionary Historical and Critical_ of Mr. Peter Bayle. London, 1734, v. 576.

50 See _Lunar World_, by the Rev. J. Crampton, M.A. Edinburgh, 1863, p. 83.

51 _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. London, p. 592.

52 _The Man in the Moon_. By an Undergraduate of Worcester College. Oxford, 1839, Part i. p. 3.

53 MS. in the British Museum Library. Additional MSS. No. 11,812.

54 Lucian's _Works_. Translated from the Greek by Ferrand Spence. London, 1684, ii. 182.

55 _The Table Book_. By William Hone. London, 1838, ii. 252.

56 _Adventures of Baron Munchausen_. London, 1809, p. 44.

57 Flammarion's _Marvels of the Heavens_, p. 241.

58 _Records of the Past_. Edited by S. Birch, LL.D., D.C.L. London, iv. 121.

59 _The Philosophie_, 1603, Holland's Transl. p. 1184.

60 _Primitive Culture_, ii. 64.

61 _A Journey to the Moon_, by the Author of _Worlds Displayed_. London, p. 6.

62 Dennys' _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 101.

63 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 720.

64 Flammarion's _Marvels of the Heavens_, p. 253.

65 _The Philosophie_, p. 338.

66 _The Woman in the Moone_, by John Lyllie. London, 1597.

67 Dr. Rae, _On the Esquimaux_. Transactions of the Ethnological Society, vol. iv., p. 147.

68 _Vide_ also _A Description of Greenland_, by Hans Egede. Second Edition. London, 1818, p. 206.

69 _Amazonian Tortoise Myths_, by Ch. Fred. Hartt, A.M. Rio de Janeiro, 1875, p. 40.

70 _Algic Researches_, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. New York, 1839, ii. 54.

71 _Information respecting the History, &c., of the Indian Tribes_, by H. R. Schoolcraft. Philadelphia, v. 417.

72 _Nineteen Years in Polynesia_, by the Rev. George Turner. London, 1861, p. 247.

73 _An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean_, by William Mariner. Arranged by John Martin, M.D. London, 1818, ii. 127.

74 _Myths and Songs from the South Pacific_, by the Rev. W. W. Gill, B.A. London, 1876, p. 45.

75 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 716.

76 _Selected Essays_, vol. i. note to p. 611.

77 _The Sacred and Historical Books of Ceylon_, edited by Edward Upham. London, 1833, iii. 309.

78 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 716.

79 _Illustrations of Shakespeare_. London, 1807, i. 17.

80 _Dictionnaire Infernal_, par J. Collin de Plancy. Paris, 1863, p. 592.

81 _The Chinese Reader's Manual_, by W. F. Mayers. Shanghai, 1874, p. 219.

82 _The Chinese Readers Manual_, p. 95.

83 _Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or, Hottentot Fables and Tales_ by W. H. J. Bleek. London, 1864, p. 72.

84 _A Brief Account of Bushman Folk-Lore_, by Dr. Bleek. Cape Town, 1875, p. 10.

85 _Outlines of Physiology, Human and Comparative_, by John Marshall, F.R.S. London, 1867, ii. 625.

86 _Lectures on the Native Regions of Mexico and Peru_, by Albert Reville, D.D. London, 1884, p. 8.

87 _History of the Conquest of Mexico_, by William H. Prescott. London, 1854, p. 50.

88 _The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America_, by Hubert Howe Bancroft. New York, 1875, iii. 62.

89 _Zoological Mythology; or, the Legends of Animals_, by Angelo de Gubernatis. London, 1872, ii. 80.

90 _Ibid._, ii. 76.

91 _Report on the Indian Tribes Inhabiting the Country in the Vicinity of the 49th Parallel of North Latitude_, by Capt. Wilson. Trans. of Ethnolog. Society of London, 1866. New Series, iv. 304.

92 _The Races of Mankind_, by Robert Brown, M.A., Ph.D. London, 1873-76, i. 148.

93 Dennys' _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 117.

94 _The Middle Kingdom_, by S. Wells Williams, LL.D. New York, 1883, ii. 74.

95 _The Disowned_, by the Right Hon. Lord Lytton, chap. lxii.

96 _Fiji and the Fijians_, by Thomas Williams. London, 1858, i. 205.

97 _Primitive Culture_, i. 321.

98 _On the Aborigines of Southern Australia_, by W. E. Stanbridge, of Wombat, Victoria. Transactions of Ethnolog. Society of London, 1861, p. 301.

99 _A Discovery of a New World_, by John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester. London, 1684, p. 77.

100 _A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean_, by Capt. James Cook, F.R.S., and Capt. James King, LL.D., F.R.S. London, 1784, ii. 167.

101 _Polynesian Researches during a Residence of nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands_, by William Ellis. London, 1833, iii. 171.

102 _Prehistoric Times_, by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., D.C.L. London, 1878, p. 440.

103 _Primitive Culture_, i. 318.

104 _See_ Kalisch on _Genesis_. London, 1858, p. 70.

105 _Sermons_, by the Rev. W. Morley Punshon, LL.D. Second Series. London, 1884, p. 376.

106 _Outlines of the History of Religion_, by C. P. Tiele. Trans. by J. E. Carpenter. London, 1877, p. 8.

107 _The Myths of the New World_, by Daniel G. Brinton, A.M., M.D. New York, 1868, p. 131.

108 _The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia_. By Sven Nilsson (Lubbock's edit.). London, 1868, p. 206.

109 _Lectures on the Science of Language_. London, 1880, i. 6.

110 _Teutonic Mythology_, iii. 704.

111 _The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_. London, 1878, iii. 39.

112 _Ibid._, iii. 165.

113 _The Mythology of the Aryan Nations_. London, 1882, note to p. 372.

114 _Russian Folk-Lore_, by W. R. S. Ralston, M.A. London, 1873, p. 176.

115 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, i. 260.

116 _A System of Biblical Psychology_, by Franz Delitzsch, D.D., translated by the Rev. R. E. Wallis, Ph.D. Edinburgh, 1875, p. 124.

117 _The Book of Isaiah_ liv. 4-6, and lxii. 4.

118 _English Grammar, Historical and Analytical_, by Joseph Gostwick. London, 1878, pp. 67-72.

119 _Hibbert Lectures_ for 1878, p. 190.

120 Bayle's _Dictionary_, i. 113.

121 Vide Tylor's _Anthropology_. London, 1881, p. 149.

122 _Language and Languages_, by the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. London, 1878, p. 181.

123 _Ibid._, p. 182. Coleridge also was in error on this question. See his _Table Talk_, under date May 7th, 1830.

124 _Hebrew and Christian Records_, by the Rev. Dr. Giles. London, 1877, i. 366.

125 _Biblical Psychology_, p. 79.

126 _Antitheism_, by R. H. Sandys, M.A. London, 1883, p. 32.

127 _The Origin and Development of Religious Belief_. London, 1878, i. 187.

128 _The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson_. London, 1882, i. 274.

129 _Jesus Christ: His Times, Life, and Work_, by E. de Pressense. London, 1866, p. 38.

130 _Sketches of the History of Man_, by the Hon. Henry Home of Kames. Edinburgh, 1813, iii. 364.

131 _Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient names_, by Thomas Inman. London, 1872, ii. 325.

132 _Mythology among the Hebrews_, by Ignaz Goldziher, Ph.D. London, 877, p. 76.

133 _Primitive Culture_, ii. 271.

134 _Nineveh and its Remains_, by Austen Henry Layard, M.P. London, ii. 446.

135 Inman's _Ancient Faiths_, i. 93.

136 _The Unicorn: a Mythological Investigation_, by Robert Brown, F.S.A. London, 1881, p. 34.

137 _The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World_, by George Rawlinson, M.A. London, 1871, i. 56.

138 _Ibid._, vol. i. p. 123.

139 _Ibid._, vol. i. note to p. 124.

140 Brown's _Unicorn_, p. 34.

141 _Mythology among the Hebrews_, p. 158,

142 _Ibid._, 159.

143 _Ibid._, 160.

144 _Jewish History and Politics_, by Sir Edward Strachey, Bart. London, 1874, p. 256.

145 _Phoenicia_, by John Kenrick, M.A. London, 1855, p. 301.

146 _Dictionary of the Bible_, edited by William Smith, LL.D. Art. ASHTORETH.

147 _Dictionary of the Scottish Language_, iii. 299.

148 On _Isaiah_. London, 1824, ii. 374.

149 _The Antiquities of Israel_, by Heinrich Ewald (trans. by Solly).London, 1876, p. 341.

150 _The Bampton Lectures for 1876_, by William Alexander, D.D., D.C.L. London, 1878, p. 378.

151 _Rivers of Life, showing the Evolution of Faiths_, by Major-General J. G. R. Forlong. London, 1883, ii. 62.

152 _Outlines of the History of Religion_, by C. p. Tiele, p. 63.

153 _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, p. 194.

154 _The Philosophy of History_, by Frederick von Schlegel, translated by J. B. Robertson. London, 1846, p. 325.

155 _El-Koran; or, The Koran_, translated from the Arabic by J. M. Rodwell, M.A. London, 1876, p. 199.

156 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, ii. 274.

157 _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_. London, 1862, p. 76.

158 _The Zend-Avesta_, translated by James Darmesteter. Oxford, 1883, Part ii., p. 90.

159 _The Philosophy of History_, by G. W. F. Hegel, translated by J. Sibree, M.A. London, 1861, p. 186.

160a _The Highlands of Central India_, by Captain J. Forsyth. London, 1871, p. 146.

160b _Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of Asia_, by John Bell of Antermony. Glasgow, 1763, i. 230.

161 _The Early Races of Scotland_, by Forbes Leslie. Edinburgh, 1866, i. 138.

162 Kames' _History of Man_, iii. 299.

163 _The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man_, by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D. London, 1882, p. 315.

164 _History Of Man_, iii. 366.

165 _The Religions of China_, by James Legge. London, 1880, p. 12.

166 _Ibid._, pp. 44-46.

167 _Religion in China_, by Joseph Edkins, D.D. London, 1878, p. 60.

168 _A Translation of the Confucian Yih King_, by the Rev. Canon McClatchie, M.A. Shanghai, 1876, p. 386.

169 _Ibid._, p. 388.

170 _Ibid._, p. 449.

171 _The Religions of China_, p. 170.

172 _Religion in China_, p. 105.

173 _Handbook for the Student of Chinese Buddhism_, by Rev. E. J. Eitel, London. 1870, p. 107.

174 _Hulsean Lectures for 1870_, p. 203.

175 _Hibbert Lectures on Indian Buddhism_, by T. W. Rhys Davids. London, 1881, p. 231.

176 _A View of China for Philological Purposes_, by the Rev. R. Morrison. Macao, 1817, p. 107.

177 Dennys' _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 28.

178 _Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years 1844-46_, by M. Huc. Translated by W. Hazlitt. London, i. 61.

179 _Social Life of the Chinese_, by Rev. Justus Doolittle. New York, 1867, ii. 65.

180 _China: Its State and Prospects_, by W. H. Medhurst. London, 1838, p. 217.

181 _Ibid._, p. 188.

182 _Researches into the Physical History of Mankind_, by James Cowles Prichard, M.D., F.R.S. London, 1844, iv. 496-7.

183 Tylor's _Anthropology_, p. 21.

184 _The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian_, Made English by G. Booth. London, 1700, p. 21.

185 _History of Ancient Egypt_, by George Rawlinson, M.A. London, 1881, i. 369.

186 _Records of the Past_, Edited by S. Birch, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. London, vi. iii.

187 _Hibbert Lectures for 1879_, p. 116.

188 _Ibid._, p. 155.

189 _Ancient Egypt_, i. 373.

190 _Records of the Past_, iv. 53.

191 _Egypt's Place in Universal History_, by Christian C. J. Bunsen, D.Ph., and D.C.L. Translated by C. H. Cottrell, M.A. London, 1848, i. 395.

192 _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 237.

193 _On the Relations between Pasht, the Moon, and the Cat, in Egypt_. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1878, vol. vi. 3 16.

194 _Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years_ 1768-73, by James Bruce, F.R.S. Edinburgh, 1813, vi. 343.

195 _Ibid._, iv. 36.

196 _A Voyage to Congo_, by Father Jerom Merolla da Sorrento. Pinkerton's _Voyages and Travels_. London, 1814, vol. xvi. 273.

197 _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, May, 1884.

198 _Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa_, by Mungo Park, Surgeon. London, 1779, vol. i. 271.

199 _Ibid._, i. 322.

200 _Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa_, by David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. London, 1857, p. 235.

201 _The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope_, by Peter Kolben, A.M. London, 1731, i. 96.

202 _The Poetical Works of Lord Byron_. London, 1876 (_Don Juan_, Canto iii.), p. 636.

203 _The Iliad of Homer_. Translated by J. G. Cordery. London, 1871, ii. 183.

204 _A History of Greece_, by George Grote, F.R.S. London, 1872, i. 317.

205 _Vide Pausan_., L. x. c. 32, p. 880. Edit. Kuhnii, fol. Lips, 1696.

206 _History of Greece_, i. 317.

207 _The Iliad of Homer_, by Edward Earl of Derby. London, 1867, i. 190.

208 See _Roman Antiquities_, by Alexander Adam, LL.D. London, 1825, pp. 251-60.

209 _Carmen Saeculare_, 35.

210 _Metam_., lib. xi. 657.

211 _The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated_, by William Warburton, D. D. London, 1837, i. 316.

212 Jamieson's _Scottish Dictionary_, iii. 299.

213 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 704.

214 _Chaldaean Magic: Its Origin and Development_, by Francois Lenormant. London, p. 249.

215 _Flammarion's Astronomical Myths_, p. 35.

216 Leslie's _Early Races of Scotland_, i. 113.

217 _Ibid._, i. 134.

218 _Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme_, by John Aubrey, 1686-7. Edited by James Britten, F.L.S. London, 1881, p. 83.

219 _Britannia_, by William Camden, translated by Edmund Gibson, D.D. London, 1772, ii. 380.

220 _A General History of Ireland from the Earliest Accounts_, by Mr. O'Halloran. London, 1778, i. 47.

221 _Ibid._, i. 113.

222 _Ibid._, i. 221.

223 _The Towers and Temples of Ancient Ireland_, by Marcus Keane, M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1867, p. 59.

224 _The Keys of the Creeds_. London, 1875, p. 148.

225 A. S., in _Notes and Queries_ for Nov. 19, 1881, p. 407.

226 _History of the Missions of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America_, by George Henry Loskiel. London, 1794, Part i. p. 40.

227 _Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians_, by George Catlin. London, 1876, ii. 242.

228 _Scenes and Studies of Savage Life_, by Gilbert Malcolm Sproat. London, 1868, p. 206.

229 Brown's _Races of Mankind_, p. 142.

230 Lubbock's _Origin of Civilization_, p. 315.

231 See _Mexico To-day_, by Thomas Unett Brocklehurst. London, 1883, p. 175.

232 Bancroft's _Races of the Pacific_, i. 587.

233 _Ibid._, iii. 112.

234 _Ibid._, iii. 187.

235 _Hibbert Lectures for 1884_, p. 45.

236 _American Antiquities and Researches into the Origin anti History of the Red Race_, by Alexander W. Bradford. New York, 1843, p. 353.

237 _Travels in Brazil in the Years_ 1817-20, by Dr. Joh. Bapt. von Spix and Dr. C. F. Phil. von Martius. London, 1824, ii. 243.

238 _An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay_, from the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer. London, 1822, ii. 65.

239 _The Royal Commentaries of Peru_, by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega. Translated by Sir Paul Rycaut, Knt. London, 1688, folio, p. 455.

240 _Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas_. Translated from the Spanish MS. of Christoval de Molina, by Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S. London, 1873, p. 37.

241 _History of the Conquest of Peru_, by William H. Prescott. London, 1878, p. 47.

242 _Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa among the South Sea Islands_ in 1865, by Julius L. Brenchley, M.A., F.R.G.S. London, 1873, p. 320.

243 _Polynesian Mythology_, by Sir George Grey, late Governor in Chief of New Zealand. London, 1855, _Pref_. xiii.

244 Kenrick's _Phoenicia_, p. 303.

245 _Workes_ of John Baptista Van Helmont. London, 1644, p. 142.

246 Goldziher's _Hebrew Mythology_, Note to p. 206.

247 _Ibid._, p. 206.

248 Dr. Smith's _Bible Dictionary_, Article _Meni_, by William A. Wright, M.A., ii. 323.

249 Goldziher's _Hebrew Mythology_, p. 160.

250 Gubernatis' _Zoological Mythology_, i. 18.

251 _Ibid._, ii. 375.

252 Mayers' _Chinese Reader's Manual_, p. 288.

253 _Japanese Fairy World_. Stories from the Wonder Lore of Japan, by William Elliot Griffis. Schenectady, N. Y., 1880, p. 299.

254 Brown's _Unicorn_, p. 69.

255 Wilkinson's _Ancient Egyptians_, iii. 375.

256 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. Note to p. 719.

257 Brinton's _Myths of the New World_, p. 130.

258 Schoolcraft's _Indian Tribes_, iii. 485.

259 _Myths of the New World_, p. 133.

260 _Ibid._, p. 134.

261 _Origin of Civilization_, p. 315.

262 _Myths of the New World_, pp. 135-7.

263 _Ibid._, p. 131.

264 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, i. 318.

265 Chambers's _Etymological Dictionary_ (Findlater).

266 _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, p. 865.

267 _Ecclesiastical Polity_. London, 1617, p. 191.

268 _The Natural History of Infidelity and Superstition_, by J. E. Riddle, M.A. Oxford, 1852, p. 155.

269 _The Anatomy of Melancholy_. London, 1836, p. 669.

270 _The Descent of Man_, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc. London, 1877, p. 121.

271 _Essays. Of Superstition_.

272 _Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind_. Edinburgh, 1828, p. 673

273 _Voltaire_, by John Morley. London, 1878, p. 156. See also Parton's _Life of Voltaire_.

274 Gubernatis' _Zoological Mythology_, i. 56.

275 _Vide_ Inman's _Ancient Faiths_, ii. 260, 326.

276 Mosheim's _Ecclesiastical History_. London, 1847, i. 116.

277 _History of Brazil_, by Robert Southey. London, 1810, p. 635.

278 _The Dictionary, Historical and Critical_. London, 1734, iv. 672.

279 _Primitive Culture_, i. 262.

280 Leslie's _Early Races of Scotland_, ii. 496.

281 _History of Brazil_, i. 193.

282 _Icelandic Legends_. Collected by Jon Arnason (Powell and Magnusson). London, 1866, p. 663.

283 _On the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions_, by Herbert Mayo, M.D. Edinburgh and London, 1851, p. 135.

284 _A Literal Translation of Aristophanes: The Clouds_, by a First-Class Man of Balliol College. Oxford, 1883, p. 31.

285 See _Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-Lore_, by Walter H. Kelly. London, 1863, p. 226.

286 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 706.

287 _Astronomical Myths_, p. 331

288 _Medea: a Tragedie_. Written in Latin by Lucius Anneus Seneca. London, 1648, p. 105.

289 _The Childhood of the World_, by Edward Clodd, F.R.A.S. London, 1875, p. 65.

290 _The Chinese Empire_, by M. Hue. London, 1855, ii. 376.

291 _The Connection of the Physical Sciences_. London, 1877, p. 104.

292 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 707.

293 _Appendix on the Astronomy of the Ancient Chinese_, by the Rev. John Chalmers, A.M. Legge's Chinese Classics. Vol. iii. Part i. Hong-Kong, 1861, p. 101.

294 _The Middle Kingdom_, i. 818.

295 _Ibid._, ii. 73.

296 _Social Life of the Chinese_, by the Rev. Justus Doolittle, of Fuhchau. New York, 1867, i. 308.

297 _Chinese Sketches_, by Herbert A. Giles. London, 1876, p. 99.

298 _Gems of Chinese Literature_, by Herbert A. Giles. Shanghai, 1884 p. 102.

299 _An Account of Cochin China_. Written in Italian by the R. E. Christopher Borri, a Milanese, of the Society of Jesus. Pinkerton's Travels, ix. 816.

300 _A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo in the East Indies_, by Captain Daniel Beeckman. London, 1878, p. 107.

301 _History of the Indian Archipelago_, by John Crawfurd, F.R.S. Edinburgh, 1820, i. 305.

302 _Sketches of the History of Man_, iii. 300.

303 _Thucydides_. Translated by B. Jowett, M.A. Oxford, 1881, i. 521.

304 _The Stratagems of Jerusalem_, by Lodowick Lloyd, Esq., One of her Majestie's Serjeants at arms. London, 1602, p. 286.

305 Quoted in _Notes and Queries_, 16th of April, 1881, by William E. A. Axon.

306 _Northern Antiquities_, by Paul Henri Mallett. London, 1790, i. 39.

307 _Teutonic Mythology_, i. 245.

308 _Ibid._, ii. 705.

309 _Advice to a Son_. Oxford, 1658, p. 105

310 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 714.

311 Schoolcraft's _Indian Tribes_, v. 2 16.

312 Brinton's _Myths_, p. 137.

313 Bradford's _American Antiquities_, p. 332.

314 _Ibid._, p. 333.

315 _The Antiquities of Mexico_, by Augustine Aglio. London, 1830, folio vi. 144.

316 Bancroft's _Native Races_, iii. 111.

317 Brinton's _Myths_, p. 131.

318 _Polynesian Researches_, i. 331.

319 Mariner's _Natives of the Tonga Islands_, ii. 127.

320 _Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon_. London, 1853, p. 552.

321 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, ii. 272.

322 _Ibid._, ii. 272.

323 _Description of the Western Islands of Scotland_, by Martin Martin. London, 1716, p. 41.

324 _The Philosophie_, p. 696.

325 _A Voyage to St. Kilda, the remotest of all the Hybrides_, by M. Martin, Gent. Printed in the year 1698. Miscellanea Scottica. Glasgow, 1818, p. 34.

326 _The Zend-Avesta_. Oxford, 1883, ii. 90.

327 _Five Hundred pointes of good Husbandrie_, by Thomas Tusser. London, 1580, p. 37.

328 Flammarion's _Marvels of the Heavens_, p. 244.

329 _The Philosophie_, 1603, p. 697.

330 _English Folk-Lore_, by the Rev. T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M.A., Oxon. London, 1880, p. 42.

331 _Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders_, by William Henderson. London, 1866, p. 86.

332 _Knowledge for the Time_, by John Timbs, F.S.A. London, p. 227.

333 _Popular Errors, Explained and Illustrated_, by John Timbs, F.S.A. London, 1857, p. 131.

334 _A Manual of Astrology_, by Raphael. London, 1828, p. 90.

335 Brinton's _Myths_, p. 132.

336 _Endimion: The Man in the Moone_. London, 159 1, Act i. Sc. I.

337 _A defensative against the poyson of supposed Prophecies_, by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. London, 1583.

338 _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 118.

339 Tusser's _Good Husbandrie_, p. 13.

340 _Ibid._, p. 13.

341 _Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England_, p. 41

342 _David Copperfield_. The "Charles Dickens" edition, p. 270.

343 See _An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients_, by the Rt. Hon. Sir George C. Lewis, Bart. London, 1862, p. 312.

344 _Popular Astronomy_, by Simon Newcomb, LL.D. New York, 1882, p. 325.

345 _Primitive Culture_, i. 118.

346 Dennys's _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 32.

347 _Folk-Lore; or, Manners and Customs of the North of England_, by M.A.D. Novo-Castro-sup. Tynan, 1850-51, p. 11.

348 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 42.

349 _Ibid._, p. 41.

350 _Time's Telescope_ for 1814. London, p. 368.

351 Dennys's _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 118.

352 _The Book of Days: a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities_. Edited by R. Chambers. London and Edinburgh, ii. 203.

353 _The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey_. Edited by his son. London, 1850, v. 341.

354 _Adam Bede_, chap. xviii.

355 _Scottish Ballads and Songs_. Edited by James Maidment. Edinburgh, 1868, i. 41.

356 _Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language_. Paisley, 1880, iii. 299.