The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[197] The Primitive Bakongo, p. 371.

[198] E. im Thurn, op. cit., p. 363.

[199] Principles of Sociology, §§ 165-93.

[200] J. G. Frazer, Belief in Immortality, p. 220.

[201] Franz Boas, American Bureau of Ethnology, VI. 1884-5, p. 583.

[202] Callaway, Religious System of the Amazulu, pp. 1 and 40. Cf. Coddrington, The Melanesians, p. 150: Koevasi, a spirit, was never human, yet in some way the originator of the human race.

[203] E. Westermarck, Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco, p. 343.

[204] J.R.A.I., 1909, p. 163.

[205] See his ingenious speculations in The Evolution of the Idea of God, ch. xiii.

[206] Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, II. iii. ch. vi.