Chapter II Notes
[7.1] R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 52.
[7.2] Basil Thomson, The Fijians, a Study of the Decay of Custom (London, 1908), pp. 57-59, 64, 158.
[8.1] Rev. Richard Taylor, Te Ika A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, Second Edition (London, 1870), pp. 352 sq.; as to the atuas or gods, see ib. pp. 134 sqq.
[9.1] A. S. Thomson, M.D., The Story of New Zealand (London, 1859), i. 95 sq.
[9.2] Rev. W. Yate, An Account of New Zealand (London, 1835), pp. 104 sq., note.
[9.3] W. Brown, New Zealand and its Aborigines (London, 1845), p. 76. Compare Old New Zealand, by a Pakeha Maori (London, 1884), pp. 96 sq.
[10.1] Rev. R. Taylor, op. cit. p. 164.
[10.2] Rev. R. Taylor, op. cit. pp. 164, 165.
[10.3] W. Mariner, Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, Second Edition (London, 1818), i. 141 sq. note, 434, note, ii. 82 sq., 222 sq.
[10.4] W. Ellis, Polynesian Researches, Second Edition (London, 1832-1836), iii. 108.
[11.1] W. Ellis, op. cit. iii. 101 sq.; J. Wilson, Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean (London, 1799), pp. 329 sq.
[11.2] Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde (Berlin), vi. (1856) pp. 398 sq.; F. T. Valdez, Six Years of a Traveller’s Life in Western Africa (London, 1861), ii. 251 sq.
[11.3] W. W. Skeat, Malay Magic (London, 1900), pp. 23 sq.
[11.4] W. W. Skeat, op. cit. p. 36.
[12.1] Hugh Low, Sarawak (London, 1848), pp. 259 sq.
[12.2] N. Adriani en Alb. C. Kruijt, De Bare’e-sprekende Toradja’s van Midden-Celebes, i. (Batavia, 1912) pp. 130 sq.
[12.3] For evidence see The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i. 342 sqq., 392 sqq.
[13.1] Proyart’s “History of Loango, Kakongo, and other Kingdoms in Africa,” in John Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels (London, 1808-1814), xvi. 577. Compare O. Dapper, Description de l’Afrique (Amsterdam, 1686), pp. 335 sq.
[13.2] “The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battel,” in J. Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, xvi. 330.
[14.1] J. Dos Santos, “Eastern Ethiopia,” chapters v. and ix., in G. McCall Theal’s Records of South-Eastern Africa, vii. (1901) pp. 190 sq., 199.
[14.2] J. Dos Santos, op. cit. pp. 194 sq.
[14.3] A. C. Hollis, The Nandi, their Language and Folk-lore (Oxford, 1909), pp. 49 sq.
[15.1] C. P. Tiele, History of the Egyptian Religion (London, 1882), pp. 103 sq. For fuller details see A. Moret, Du caractère religieux de la royauté pharaonique (Paris, 1902); The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i. 418 sq.
[15.2] Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii. 5. 14.
[16.1] Garcilasso de la Vega, First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, translated by C. R. Markham (London, 1869-1871), i. 154 sq.
[16.2] The Laws of Manu, vii. 5-8, translated by G. Bühler (Oxford, 1886), p. 217 (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxv.).
[16.3] The Laws of Manu, ix. 246 sq., translated by G. Bühler, p. 385.
[16.4] Homer, Odyssey, ii. 409, iv. 43, 691, vii. 167, viii. 2, xviii. 405; Iliad, ii. 335, xvii. 464, etc.
[16.5] Homer, Odyssey, xix. 109-114.
[16.6] Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii. 5. 14.
[17.1] Snorro Sturleson, The Heimskringla, or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, translated by S. Laing (London, 1844), saga i. chapters 18 and 47, vol. i. pp. 230, 256.
[17.2] P. W. Joyce, Social History of Ancient Ireland (London, 1903), i. 56 sq.; J. O’Donovan, The Book of Rights (Dublin, 1847), p. 8, note.
[17.3] S. Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands, pp. 65 sq. (The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., London, 1825, vol. vi.).
[17.4] J. G. Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900), p. 5.
[17.5] W. G. Black, Folk-Medicine (London, 1883), pp. 140 sqq. See further The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i. 368 sqq.; and especially Raymond Crawfurd, The King’s Evil (Oxford, 1911), which contains a full history of the superstition from the eleventh century onwards, authenticated by documentary evidence.
[18.1] W. Mariner, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, Second Edition (London, 1818), i. 434, note.
[18.2] Proyart’s “History of Loango, Kakongo, and other Kingdoms in Africa,” in J. Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, xvi. 573.
[18.3] Raymond Crawfurd, The King’s Evil, pp. 11 sqq., 18 sqq.
[18.4] J. Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Ninth Edition (London, 1822), i. 18 sq.
[18.5] Raymond Crawfurd, The King’s Evil, pp. 144 sqq., 159 sqq.