[91] Related in Gill’s Myths and Songs of the South Pacific. M. van Ende, in his Histoire Naturelle de la Croyance, p. 83, sq., has some suggestive remarks on sound as regarded by primitive nations as a mark of life. Hence, their myths of brooks, trees, etc., as conscious beings.
[92] A Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, p. 96.
[93] E. F. Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal, p. 60. “Nothing more colors Hindu life,” writes Mr. Walhouse, “than the belief in the efficacy of mantras—forms of prayer or powerful words, by which all the relations of life may be influenced, and even the gods may be bound.”—Jour. Anthrop, Inst., vol. xiv., p. 189.
[94] Curr, The Australian Race, vol. i., p. 48.
[95] Report of Com. of N. South Wales to the Columbian Exposition, p. 7.
[96] Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, p. 309.
[97] Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, p. 63.
[98] Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 318.
[99] The appropriate rite thus to destroy an enemy is described by Curr, The Australian Race, vol. ii., p. 610.
[100] Popol Vuh, le Livre Sacré des Quiches, p. 10.