[1574] See Lord Avebury, Marriage, Totemism, and Religion, chap. iv.
[1575] The plant or animal may be a totem, but its magical power is not derived from its totemic character. Magical potency may dwell in nontotemic objects; in magical ceremonies connected with totems (as in Australia) it is the ceremony rather than the totem that is efficacious. Cf. Marett, Threshold of Religion, p. 22 f.
[1576] Cf. Marett, "From spell to prayer," in his Threshold of Religion, p. 33 ff.
[1577] Cf. J. H. King, The Supernatural, Index, s.v. Charm; Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 148; article "Charms and Amulets" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[1578] Eng. tr. by Bloomfield, in Sacred Books of the East.
[1579] L. W. King, Babylonian Magic and Sorcery.
[1580] Records of the Past, first series, vols. ii, vi; Griffith, article "Egyptian Literature" in Library of the World's Best Literature; Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, p. 212 ff.; Breasted, History of Egypt, Index, s.v. Magic.
[1581] Cf. Macdonald, Religious Attitude and Life in Islam, Index, s.v. Magic.
[1582] Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines, article "Magia"; cf. articles "Medeia" and "Kirke" in Roscher's Lexikon.
[1583] Apuleius, Metamorphoses; Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ii, 535 ff.; Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners under the Early Empire (Eng. tr.), i, 260 f.; Fowler, The Religious Experience of the Roman People, p. 57 ff.; cf. Cumont, Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans, Index, s.v. Magic.