[270] Walthouse, in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., vol. v., p. 415.
[271] Nuñez de la Vega, Constituciones Diocesanas de Chiapas, fol. 9.
[272] The locally famous Maria Candelaria. At the head of fifteen thousand warriors, she defied the Spanish army for nearly a year, and, though defeated, was never captured. Her story is scantily recorded by Vicente Pineda, in his Historia de las Sublevaciones Indigenas en el Estado de Chiapas, pp. 38-70.
[273] Otfried Müller, Die Etrusker, Bd. ii., ss. 77, 78.
[274] Compare Keary, Outlines of Primitive Belief, p. 60; and Maury, La Magie et Astrologie, p. 386, sq.
[275] Geo. Turner, Samoa, p. 9; Dr. Tautain, in L’Anthropologie, tome vii., p. 548.
[276] On the ordeal, see Post, Ethnologisches Jurisprudenz, Bd. ii., ss. 459, sq., 479; Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, Bd. i., s. 461. The assertion by some writers that the ordeal was not known to the American Indians is incorrect. For example, Captain Clark recounts those to test the virtue of women who have been accused. Indian Sign Language, pp. 45, 208.
[277] See S. K. Steinmetz on “Der Zweikampf als Ordal” in his Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe, Bd. ii., s. 76, sq.
[278] Post, ubi supra, Bd. ii., s. 478.
[279] Adair, Hist. of the N. American Indians, p. 158; Boscana, Acc. of the Indians of California, p. 262.