Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

by Clement A. Miles

[ 33.] Ibid. i. 130; W. Robertson Smith, 213 f.

[ 34.] Frazer, “Dying God,” 129 f.

[ 35.] See N. W. Thomas in “Folk-Lore” (London), vol. xi., 1900, 227 f.

[ 36.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 132 f.

[ 37.] W. Robertson Smith, 437 f.

[ 38.] J. E. Harrison, “Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion” (Cambridge, 1912), 67. Cf. E. F. Ames, “The Psychology of Religious Experience” (London and Boston, 1910), 95 f.

[ 39.] Harrison, “Themis,” 137.

[ 40.] Ibid. 110.

[ 41.] S. Reinach, “Cultes, mythes, et religions” (Paris, 1905), i. 93. For the theory that totems were originally food-objects, see Ames, 118 f.

[ 42.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 133.