part ii. p. 149.

[766] W. Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India_ (Westminster, 1896), ii. 280.

[767] _Id._, _Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh_, ii. 221.

[768] M. Bloomfield, _Hymns of the Atharva-Veda_, p. 295; W. Caland, _Altindisches Zauberritual_, pp. 162 _sq._

[769] A. Hillebrandt, _Vedische Opfer und Zauber_ (Strasburg, 1897), p. 173.

[770] Josaphat Hahn, “Die Ovaherero,” _Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin_, iv. (1869) p. 503.

[771] H. Schinz, _Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika_, pp. 313 _sq._

[772] A. B. Ellis, _The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, p. 94.

[773] J. Teit, “The Shuswap” (Leyden and New York, 1909) p. 613 (_Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, The Jesup North Pacific Expedition_, vol. ii. part vii.).

[774] E. Doutté, _Magie et religion dans l’Afrique du Nord_, p. 59.

[775] K. Bartsch, _Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Meklenburg_, ii. 329 _sq._, §§ 1597, 1598, 1601^a.

[776] J. L. M. Noguès, _Les Mœurs d’autrefois en Saintonge et en Aunis_ (Saintes, 1891), pp. 169 _sq._; C. de Mensignac, _Recherches ethnographiques sur la salive et le crachat_ (Bordeaux, 1892), p. 45 note.

[777] _County Folklore: Suffolk_, edited by Lady E. C. Gurdon, p. 201.

[778] Josaphat Hahn, _loc. cit._; K. Bartsch, _op. cit._ ii. 330, 334, §§ 1599, 1611^{abc}, compare p. 332, § 1607; R. Andree, _Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche_, Neue Folge (Leipsic, 1889), pp. 8, 11.

[779] K. von den Steinen, _Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens_, p. 558.

[780] J. V. Grohmann, _Aberglauben und Gebräuche aus Böhmen und Mähren_, p. 200, § 1402.

[781] Tettau and Temme, _Die Volkssagen Ostpreussens, Litthauens und Westpreussens_, p. 267; A. Bezzenberger, _Litauische Forschungen_ (Göttingen, 1882), p. 69.

[782] K. Bartsch, _op. cit._ ii. 330, § 1599.

[783] Holzmayer, “Osiliana,” _Verhandlungen der gelehrten Estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat_, vii. (1872) p. 79.

[784] F. S. Krauss, _Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven_, p. 165.

[785] Saxo Grammaticus, _Historia Danica_, i. p. 40, ed. P. E. Müller (pp. 28 _sq._, O. Elton’s English translation).

[786] Aelian, _De natura animalium_, i. 36.

[787] _Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum_, ed. F. G. A. Mullach, i. 510.

[788] A. Wuttke, _Der deutsche Volksaberglaube_,² p. 127, § 186.

[789] J. Dawson, _Australian Aborigines_, p. 54.

[790] Theophilus Hahn, _Tsuni-Goam_ (London, 1881), pp. 84 _sq._

[791] J. Teit, “The Thompson Indians of British Columbia,” p. 371 (_The Jesup North Pacific Expedition_, vol. i. part iv.).

[792] Peter Jones, _History of the Ojebway Indians_, p. 154.

[793] J. Spieth, _Die Ewe-Stämme_ (Berlin, 1906), p. 389.

[794] Boecler-Kreutzwald, _Der Ehsten abergläubische Gebräuche, Weisen und Gewohnheiten_, pp. 121 _sq._

[795] J. Batchelor, _The Ainu and their Folklore_ (London, 1901), p. 516.

[796] H. Callaway, _The Religious System of the Amazulu_, part iii. pp. 345 _sq._

[797] A. W. Howitt, “On Australian Medicine Men,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xvi. (1887) pp. 26 _sq._; _id._, _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p. 366.

[798] R. Brough Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, i. 475.

[799] A. C. Haddon, _Head-hunters_ (London, 1901), p. 202.

[800] M. J. Erdweg, “Die Bewohner der Insel Tumleo, Berlinhafen, Deutsch-Neu-Guinea,” _Mitteilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien_, xxxii. (1902) p. 287.

[801] K. Vetter, _Komm herüber und hilf uns! oder die Arbeit der Neuen Dettelsauer Mission_, Heft iii. (Barmen, 1898) p. 10.

[802] Jamblichus, _Adhortatio ad philosophiam_, 21; Plutarch, _Quaest. conviv._ viii. 7; Clement of Alexandria, _Strom._ v. 5, p. 661, ed. Potter. Compare Diogenes Laertius, _Vit. philos._ viii. 1. 17; Suidas, _s.v._ “Pythagoras.”

[803] For detailed proof of this I may refer to my article, “Some popular Superstitions of the Ancients,” _Folklore_, i. (1890) pp. 147 _sqq._

[804] E. Casalis, _The Basutos_, p. 273.

[805] J. Richardson, _Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara_ (London, 1848), ii. 65.

[806] Jamblichus, Plutarch, Clement of Alexandria, Diogenes Laertius, Suidas, _ll.cc._

[807] É. Aymonier, “Notes sur les coutumes et croyances superstitieuses des Cambodgiens,” _Cochinchine Française: excursions et reconnaissances_, No. 16 (Saigon, 1883), p. 163.