Religions of Primitive Peoples

by Daniel G. Brinton

[230] Oviedo, Historia de las Indias, lib. x., cap. xi.

[231] Balboa, Histoire du Perou, pp. 125-7.

[232] Frazer, The Golden Bough, vol. ii., p. 31.

[233] Sahagun, Historia de la Nueva España, lib. i.

[234] Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, in An. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, vol. xi., p. 132.

[235] Dorsey, Siouan Cults, p. 511.

[236] A. d’Orbigny, L’Homme Américain, tom. i., p. 237.

[237] Examples in my Native Calendar of Central America, p. 18. It was a favourite amulet among the Crees (Mackenzie, Hist. of the Fur Trade, p. 86).

[238] Achelis, Moderne Völkerkunde, p. 370; Man, in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., vol. xii., p. 172.

[239] Charlevoix, Hist. de la Nouvelle France, ch. vi. Sprinkling the new-born child as a religious ceremony prevailed in New Zealand and throughout Polynesia. (Fornander, The Polynesian Race, vol. i., p. 236.)