[274] Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiii, 18; xxvi, 30. Other examples are given by Frazer in his Golden Bough, 2d. ed., i, 81 ff., 163; he cites cases of persons (priests and kings) held responsible for rain, and put to death if they failed to supply it.
[275] Turner, Samoa, p. 145. On certain Roman ceremonies (that of the lapis manalis and others) that have been supposed to be connected with rain making see Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Römer, p. 106; W. W. Fowler, Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic, iii.
[276] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, p. 23.
[277] Tylor, Primitive Culture, i, 454; Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, i, 52 ff.; ii, 532 ff.
[278] There is, of course, another side to the character of ghosts—sometimes they are friendly.
[279] Ploss, Das Kind, 2d ed., i, chap. iv.
[280] Numb. xix.
[281] Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., iii, 39 ff.
[282] J. J. M. de Groot, Religion of the Chinese, chap. ii.
[283] Batchelor, The Ainu, new ed., p. 321 f.