Part 29

[299.1] Radloff, i. 208.

[299.2] _Folk-Lore_, iv. 202.

[300.1] Ralston, _Tibetan Tales_, p. 29.

[300.2] _Bakhtyár Náma_, 51.

[301.1] Stumme, 123, Story No. 15.

[301.2] Burton, _Nights_, iv. 210.

[301.3] _N. Ind. N. and Q._, iv. 66. Similarly in a story from Mirzapur, the first man met in the forest is made king. _Ibid._, ii. 81. In another story from Mirzapur a trained elephant is let loose to choose the king’s bride. _Ibid._, iii. 103.

[302.1] Radloff, vi. 157.

[302.2] _Ibid._, iv. 143.

[302.3] Prym und Socin, _Kurdische Sammlungen_, Erste Abteil. (St Petersburg, 1887); übersetz., 32.

[303.1] Leclère, 16. “Tous ceux qui étaient presents à ce conseil… decidèrent qu’on consulterait immédiatement les chevaux.”

[303.2] _Kathá_, ii. 102.

[304.1] Natesa Sastri, 126.

[304.2] Steel and Temple, 140. In other stories from Kashmir, it is “an elephant” (Knowles, 169, 309).

[304.3] _Rev. Trad. Pop._, iv. 442.

[304.4] Knowles, 158. Other stories, _Ibid._, 17, 309; _Bakhtyár Náma_, 169 (notes by the Editor); Day, 99, Story No. 5.

[305.1] _Kathákoça_, 155.

[306.1] Luzel, _Lég. Chrét._, i. 282 (pt. iii., Story No. 11); a variant, _Mélusine_, i. 300.

[307.1] _F.-L. Journ._, iv. 338 _sqq._, including the references at foot of 348.

[308.1] Friedrich von Raumer, _Geschichte der Hohenstaufen und ihrer Zeit_ (Leipzig, 1824), iii. 74.

[308.2] Eusebius, _Eccles. Hist._, vi. 29.

[308.3] Middleton, _Works_ (2nd ed. London, 1755), vol. v., p. 153, citing “Hist. Raven., etc. Aring [hus], Rom[a] Subt[erranea], l. vi., c. 48.”

[309.1] _Early Trav._, 158. The casting of lots is divination--an appeal to supernatural powers to decide the event. Such divination (frequently glossed as the ballot) took place at the election of Matthias to succeed Judas Iscariot in the apostolate (Acts i. 23). It seems to have been a not uncommon practice in the Middle Ages for the election of ecclesiastical dignitaries. It is expressly reprehended in a tract _De decem præceptis_, published in the year 1439, by Thomas Ebendorfer of Haselbach, Court Chaplain and Privy Councillor of the Emperor Frederick III (_Zeit. des Vereins_, xii. 11).

[309.2] The church derived its name from having been erected in a Lombard burial-ground. Poles were set up on the graves, and on each pole the wooden figure of a dove. It is suggestive that the scene of the story is placed in such surroundings.

[310.1] Paulus Diaconus, _Gesta Longobard._, vi. 55. See also Soldan, 145, 148. Hildeprand did not reign long. He was deprived of the throne a few months later by Ratchis, who reigned for five years, 744-749.

[310.2] Soldan, 150.

[310.3] Post, _Afr. Juris._, i. 138, citing Harris, _The Highlands of Ethiopia_. Post notes that Krapf contests the accuracy of this account and states the succession was hereditary. The two statements are perhaps not irreconcilable. The succession to the throne of Businza, south of Lake Victoria Nyanza, was hereditary, but among the candidates an animal omen was decisive. Father van Thiel, who says this, however, omits to tell us exactly how (_Anthropos_, vi. 502). See also, as to other tribes, below, pp. 317 _sqq._

[311.1] Herod., iii. 84 _sqq._

[311.2] Grimm has collected instances, _Teut. Myth._, i. 47; ii. 658; iv. 1301, 1481. Also von Negelein, _Zeits. des Ver._, xi. 406 _sqq._

[312.1] _Journ. Ind. Archip._, iii. 316.

[313.1] Forbes, ii. 465.

[313.2] Plutarch, _De Fluv._, xiv.

[315.1] Huc, ii. 343; i. 278; Waddell, 245 _sqq._

[316.1] Gray, i. 103.

[317.1] Speke, _Journ._, 221. A less astonishing species of augury, and one reminding us of English Hallowe’en practices, is that adopted by the Shilluk on the Upper Nile. On choosing a king a small stone for everyone of the royal princes is thrown into the fire. The stones of the rejected candidates fly out again; he whose stone remains in the fire becomes king (_Anthropos_, v. 333).

[318.1] _Anthropos_, vi. 70.

[319.1] _Records of the Past_, 2nd series [1891] v. 68, 62.

[320.1] _Folk-Lore_, ix. 114. Mr Crooke does not refer to the speech of Eurymachus immediately following that of Telemachus, which confirms what has been said on this subject by Antinous and Telemachus.

[321.1] I am indebted to Miss Burne for suggesting that something like this is the true interpretation of the use alike of the _Lia Fáil_ and of the various regal paraphernalia employed in the stories. As she puts it, they would know their rightful owner. This, however, is to assume the principle of heredity as already established. The animistic belief involved in the interpretation suggested was perhaps applied even before then.

[323.1] Girald. Cambr., _Itinerarium Kambriæ_, l. i., c. 2.

[323.2] Crooke, _Pop. Rel._, ii. 142.

[323.3] Crooke, _Tribes and Castes_, ii. 380. _Cf._ the Legend of Dhatu Sena, King of Ceylon (Tennent, _Ceylon_, i. 389).

[324.1] A. Landes, _Contes Tjames_, 104.

[324.2] _Journal of the Indian Archipelago_, iii. 571.

[324.3] _Havelok_, ll. 602 _sqq._, 2139 _sqq._

[326.1] Owen, _Narrative_, ii. 418, translating a MS., of Sr. Ferão, a Portuguese governor of the coast. This translation is reprinted by Theal, _Records of South-Eastern Africa_, vii. 371 _sqq._

[327.1] Theal, _Records_, vii. 191 _sqq._

[327.2] 2 Sam., ch. 16; 1 Kings, ch. 2. There is some reason to think that the same custom obtained among the ancient Teutonic peoples, and even in England. Both this and succession by marrying a daughter are frequent incidents in historical traditions as well as in _märchen_ (see Frazer, _Magic Art_, ii., ch. xviii., and _Scapegoat_, 368).

[328.1] Junod, _S. A. Tribe_, i. 199, 206.

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