[674] The buffoonery that was sometimes practiced at Roman funerals seems to have come from the natural love of fun, here particularly, also, through the reaction from the oppressive solemnity of the occasion.
[675] Howitt and Fison, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 246 ff.
[676] Taylor, New Zealand, pp. 104, 108.
[677] Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 194, 253 f.; Powell, Wanderings, p. 170.
[678] Ellis, Madagascar, i, 23, 423.
[679] Callaway, The Amazulu, pp. 145, 151.
[680] A. B. Ellis, The Eẃe, p. 102 f.
[681] Steinmetz, Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe. A. L. Kroeber (in Journal of American Folklore, 1904) gives an account of a 'ghost-dance' in Northwest California, the object of which was said to be that the dead might return, though the details are obscure.
[682] Some such custom seems to be referred to in Deut. xxvi, 14.
[683] Fritsch, Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrikas.