[1844] Cf. Hubert and Mauss, "Essai sur le sacrifice" in Année sociologique, ii (1898).
[1845] A more socially refined conception appears in the lectisternium, in which the gods sit at table with their human friends. Cf. Wissowa, Religion der Römer, p. 355 ff.; Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, Index, s.v.
[1846] § 23.
[1847] For the worshiper the blood had strengthening power.
[1848] 1 Kings, xvi, 34; article "Bridge" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[1849] Cf. Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Index, s.v. Human Sacrifice.
[1850] Breasted, History of Egypt, pp. 325, 411, 478.
[1851] Pietschmann, Phönizier, p. 167; Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 403; 2 Kings, iii, 27; Exod. xiii; i, 13; Nöldeke, article "Arabs (Ancient)" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[1852] 2 Kings, xvii, 31.
[1853] Rig-Veda, x, 18, 8; viii, 51, 2.