[147] Skeat, Malay Magic, p. 48.
[148] Quoted by Frazer, Belief in Immortality, p. 268.
[149] Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Straits, V. p. 325.
[150] W. Grube, Rel. u. K. d. Chinese, p. 153.
[151] In the B. of Am. Ethn., XIII. p. 374, F. H. Cushing, describing “Zuñi Creation Myths,” says the dramaturgic tendency is to suppose that Nature can be made to act by men, if “they do first what they wish the elements to do,” according “as these things were done or made to be done by the ancestral gods of creation.” The last clause is, perhaps, an animistic gloss of the Zuñis’, who were, of course, very far from primitive thought.
[152] The Psychological Study of Religion, p. 165.
[153] Cf. S. H. Ray, “People and Language of Lifu,” J.R.A.I. (XLVII.), p. 296, who says, a woman whose son or husband was away at war would place a piece of coral to represent him on a mat, move it about with her right hand as he might move in fight, and with her left brush away imaginary evils. This protected him (evidently by exemplary Magic).
[154] W. H. R. Rivers, The Disappearance of Useful Arts, also History of Melanesian Society, II. p. 445; and in Turner’s Samoa (p. 145) we are told that the practice of embalming died out with the family of embalmers.
[155] The Veddas, pp. 126-7.
[156] Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 170.