The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[137] Carl Lumholtz, New Trails in Mexico, p. 350.

[138] Life of a South African Tribe, p. 528.

[139] See the exhaustive treatment of this subject in Frazer’s Taboo and the Perils of the Soul.

[140] A “barn” is a small spindle-shaped stick, supposed to be thrown in a magical attack by wizards. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 377.

[141] Hose and McDougall, Pagan Tribes of Borneo, I. p. 110.

[142] Quoted by Frazer, Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, I. p. 105.

[143] The Sacred Shrine, pp. 33-9.

[144] Life of a South African Tribe, p. 340.

[145] Sioux Cults, Am. B. of Ethn., XI. p. 484.

[146] New Trails in Mexico, p. 61.