Custom and Myth

by Andrew Lang

[{147c}] Var. Hist., 14, 27.

[{148}] Max Müller, Selected Essays, ii. 622.

[{151}] Myth of Kirkê, p. 80.

[{152a}] Turner’s Samoa.

[{152b}] Josephus, loc. cit. For this, and many other references, I am indebted to Schwartz’s Prähistorisch-änthropologische Studien. In most magic herbs the learned author recognises thunder and lightning—a theory no less plausible than Mr. Brown’s.

[{152c}] Lib. xxviii.

[{152d}] Schoolcraft.

[{157a}] Talvj, Charakteristik der Volkslieder, p. 3.

[{157b}] Fauriel, Chants de la Grèce moderne.

[{160}] Thus Scotland scarcely produced any ballads, properly speaking, after the Reformation. The Kirk suppressed the dances to whose motion the ballad was sung in Scotland, as in Greece, Provence, and France.