[434] The American manitu is an appellation of a personal supernatural being. The Siouan wakonda is invoked in prayer (Miss Fletcher, The Tree in the Dakotan Group).
[435] Judg. xiv, 19; 1 Sam. xix, 23; Ezek. xxxix, 29. Fury also is said to be poured out. Cf. Mark v, 30, where power (δύναμις) is said to go out of Jesus.
[436] Cf. the Greek energeia and entelecheia.
[437] Cf. I. King, The Development of Religion, chap. vi.
[438] Examples in J. H. King, The Supernatural. Cf. T. S. Knowlson, Origins of Popular Superstitions, etc.; T. Keightley, Fairy Mythology.
[439] Cf. Tylor, Primitive Culture, 3d ed., ii, 229 ff.: article "Animals" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[440] This may have been simply the transference to them of human custom, or it may also have been suggested by the obvious social organization of such animals as bees, ants, goats, deer, monkeys.
[441] Turner, Samoa, pp. 21, 26.
[442] Batchelor, The Ainu, p. 27.
[443] W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, (new ed., see p. 106) p. 128 f.