The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[307] “Shamanism,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, X., XIV. p. 85.

[308] Weeks, Congo Cannibals, p. 265.

[309] The fullest and most dramatic account of such possession may be found in Williams’ Fiji and the Fijians, p. 190. See below, p. 243.

[310] Weeks, Primitive Bokongo, p. 215.

[311] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 480-8.

[312] “Shamanism,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, XXIV. p. 130.

[313] Howitt, op. cit., p. 374.

[314] Ibid., p. 437.

[315] P. A. Talbot, In the Shadow of the Bush, p. 230.

[316] G. Borrow, Wild Wales, ch. lxxxviii.