[1] Teutonic Myth and Legend, p. 174 et seq. [↑]
[2] Teutonic Myth and Legend, p. 286. [↑]
[3] The Irish term sed (pronounced “shade”), the old form of which is set, signified a cow, a measure of value, property, and “a pearl, a precious stone, or a gem of any kind”. Joyce, Irish Names of Places, p. 355 (Dublin, 1875). [↑]
[4] Breasted, A History of Egypt, p. 357. [↑]
[5] Egyptian Myth and Legend, pp. 341, 342. [↑]
[6] Seven Tablets of Creation. [↑]
[7] The belief that the cat has nine lives may be cited, and also the belief that if an eel or a serpent is cut in two it will come to life again. A Chinese dragon may revive after being cut up and buried. The story is told in Japan of a man who killed a snake-dragon, cut it into three pieces, and buried them, but thirteen years later, on the same day of the year on which he slew the dragon, he cried out “I drink water,” choked, and died. His death was caused by the dragon he had endeavoured to kill (de Visser, The Dragon in China and Japan, p. 195). The “Deathless Snake” in an ancient Egyptian story comes to life until the severed parts are buried separately. [↑]
[8] Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology), pp. 256–7. [↑]
[9] The Dragon in China and Japan, p. 127. See also the Egyptian Bata story, Egyptian Myth and Legend, pp. 49–56. [↑]