[1554] So among the old Hebrews, according to 1 Sam. xxviii, 9. For Rome cf. Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, lecture iii.
[1555] Cf. above, § 889.
[1556] In some cases the priest is a magician (Grey, Polynesian Mythology, p. 114 ff.)—he acts as the mouthpiece of a god, and in sympathy with the god. Cf. Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, ii, 658. On a connection between the magician and the poet see Goldziher, in Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Orientalists.
[1557] Cf. above, § 889.
[1558] Dixon, The Northern Maidu, p. 267 f.; id., The Shasta, 471 ff.
[1559] Ellis, Tshi, p. 120.
[1560] Dixon, The Shasta, loc. cit.; Miss Fletcher, Indian Ceremonies, p. 280.
[1561] M. Kingsley, Studies, p. 136.
[1562] Grey, Polynesian Mythology, p. 278.
[1563] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 267 f.