[254] Hollis, The Nandi, p. 8 (cf. p. 24).
[255] Hollis (op. cit., p. 6 f.) relates that on a certain occasion when his party was driven from its wagons by a swarm of bees, a Nandi man appeared, announced that he was of the bee totem, and volunteered to restore quiet, which he did, going stark naked into the swarm. His success was doubtless due to his knowledge of the habits of bees.
[256] So in the Tsimshian ceremony in eating the first fish caught (Boas, in Fifth Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. lix, p. 51). Cf. the Jewish rule (Ex. xii, 46), which may have had a similar origin.
[257] Teit, in Jesup North Pacific Expedition, ii, 282. A similar provision is mentioned in Ex. xvi, 16-20.
[258] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 167 f., and Native Tribes of Northern Australia, p. 308 etc.; Strehlow, Die Aranda-und Loritjastämme in Zentralaustralien, part ii, p. 39 etc.
[259] Dixon, The Northern Maidu, p. 285 f.
[260] Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, p. 177 f.
[261] Dorsey, The Skidi Pawnee, p. 149.
[262] Seligmann, op. cit., p. 291 ff.
[263] Here again the taboos are precautions against injurious supernatural influences.