The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[565] Pliny, XXV. c. 11.

[566] Ibid., XXV. c. 59.

[567] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 384.

[568] Spencer and Gillen, Across Australia, p. 339.

[569] Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 381.

[570] The Melanesians, p. 199.

[571] For Proclus’ defence of Astrology see Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences, Book IV. ch. iii., 1st ed., pp. 298-300.

[572] Dudley Kidd, The Essential Kafir, p. 114.

[573] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 397-9.

[574] I do not mean that Magic is always a direct derivative of Common-sense: we have seen ([ch. vi. § 5]) that it sometimes comes from Animism by retrogradation, and (elsewhere) often from coincidences.