[240] Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatan, lib. iv., cap. vi. The same belief prevailed in some African tribes; see Achelis, Moderne Völkerkunde, p. 393.
[241] H. R. Schoolcraft, Oneóta, pp. 331, 456.
[242] Notices of East Florida by a Recent Traveller, p. 79.
[243] Gregg, Commerce of the Prairies, vol. ii., p. 271.
[244] Examples in E. S. Hartland’s Science of Fairy Tales, p. 309.
[245] R. Andree, Ethnographische Parallelen, p. 177.
[246] The Bora has been often described, by no one better than Mr. A. W. Howitt in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., vol. vii., p. 242, sq., and vol. xiv., p. 306, sq.
[247] J. G. Kohl, Kitchi Gami, p. 228.
[248] Captain Clark, Indian Sign Language, p. 254. D’Orbigny describes the bloody ordeals through which girls in South American tribes were obliged to pass. L’Homme Américain, tom. i., pp. 193, 237.
[249] Curr, The Australian Race vol. i., pp. 45-50; Palmer, in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., vol. xiii., p. 301.