[574] Job vii, 12.
[575] Herodotus, vi, 76.
[576] Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, x, 179; Bell, Maldive Islands, p. 73.
[577] In Titus iii, 5, the reference seems to be to baptism.
[578] De Groot, Religion of the Chinese, p. 10 f.; cf. the German Lorelei.
[579] Frazer (in Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor) sees a river-god in the figure mentioned in Gen. xxxii, 24.
[580] Cf. John v, 4 (in some MSS.).
[581] This is W. R. Smith's contention in Religion of the Semites, lecture v. See his account of Semitic water-gods in general.
[582] Turner, Samoa, p. 345 f. Cf. the Roman lapis manalis; see above, § 136.
[583] A large number of examples are given by Frazer in his Golden Bough, 2d ed., i, 81 f., al.