[884] H. Webster, Primitive Secret Societies, p. 164 ff.

[885] Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, i, 495 ff.

[886] Frazer, loc. cit. Cf. A. Lang, Secret of the Totem, p. 138.

[887] Jesup North Pacific Expedition, vi, i, 32 ff., 43 ff.

[888] So worship was offered to the Roman genius (Horace, Carm. iii, 17; Epist. i, 7, 94).

[889] A. B. Ellis, Eẃe, p. 105; Tshi, p. 156; Yoruba, chap. vii.

[890] Turner, Samoa, p. 78 f. So the κουροτρόφος (Farnell, in Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor).

[891] W. H. Dall, Alaska and its Resources, p. 145, cited by Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, iii, 442 f.

[892] The acquisition of a supernatural inspirer by a shaman is analogous to this custom, but belongs in a somewhat different category: see below, § 540.

[893] Miss Alice Fletcher, "Indian Ceremonies" (in Report of the Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1883).