[441] Frazer, ii. 1; Jevons, 279.
[442] Frazer, ii. 5, 59.
[443] Strabo, iv. 5. 4; Bastian, Oestl. Asien, v. 272. The Mexican evidence given by Frazer, iii. 134, does not necessarily represent a primitive notion of the nature of the rite.
[444] Jevons, 291; Plutarch, lxx. For traces of the blood-guiltiness incurred by sacrifice, cf. the βουφόνια at Athens and the regifugium at Rome (Frazer, ii. 294; Robertson Smith, i. 286).
[445] Frazer, ii. 15, 55, 232; Jevons, 280; Grant Allen, 242, 296, 329.
[446] In three successive years of famine the Swedes sacrificed first oxen, then men, finally their king Dômaldi himself (Ynglingasaga, c. 18).
[447] Frazer, ii. 24; Jevons, 280; Grant Allen, 296.
[448] The British rule in India forbids human sacrifice, and the Khonds, a Dravidian race of Bengal, have substituted animal for human victims within the memory of man (Frazer, ii. 245).
[449] Hartland, iii. 1; Frazer, Pausanias, iv. 197; v. 44, 143; Bérenger-Féraud, i. 207. Mr. Frazer enumerates forty-one versions of the legend.
[450] Hartland, iii. 81; Grimm, ii. 494; Gummere, G. O. 396. The slaves of Nerthus were drowned in the same lake in which the goddess was dipped.