Introduction to the History of Religions / Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

by Crawford Howell Toy

[1664] Frobenius, Childhood of Man, p. 190 ff.

[1665] Turner, Samoa, p. 184.

[1666] Purchas, Pilgrimage, ed. Ravenstein, pp. 56 f., 59 f.

[1667] "Code of Hammurabi" (§§ 2, 132), by C. H. W. Johns, in Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible, extra volume.

[1668] Numb. v.

[1669] Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 275 ff.

[1670] She was rejected by the sacred water; cf. W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, 2d ed., p. 179; Tylor, Primitive Culture, i, 140. Cf. Ellis, Yoruba, p. 190 f.; id., Tshi, pp. 198, 201.

[1671] Turner, Samoa, p. 184.

[1672] Similarly, a blessing once uttered remains effective and cannot be recalled; so in the story of Isaac blessing Jacob and Esau, Gen. xxvii.

[1673] Westermarck, "'L-'âr" in Anthropological Essays presented to Tylor; cf. his Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Index, s.v. Curses.