The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[297] Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 145.

[298] S. H. C. Hawtrey, “The Lengua Indians,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1901.

[299] “Shamanism,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, XXIV. (1894-5).

[300] Comparetti, The Traditionary Poetry of the Finns, p. 184.

[301] Howitt, op. cit., p. 404. Is this type of the neophyte’s behaviour, which is conformed to on certain occasions by magicians and inspired priests in every age and country, itself conformed to the natural type of insanity or epilepsy; and, if so, consciously or unconsciously?

[302] J. H. Weeks, Among Congo Cannibals, pp. 145 and 276.

[303] Grey, Polynesian Mythology, chs. i. and vii.

[304] Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by Celtic Heathendom, p. 225.

[305] Corpus Poeticum Boreale, pp. 24, 34, 181, 196.

[306] Heimskringla Saga, Yuglingasaga, chs. xvii.-xviii.