[481] Frazer, ii. 93, 109.
[482] Ibid. i. 220; Brand, i. 157; Dyer, 217; Ditchfield, 97; Kelly, 62: cf. ch. viii.
[483] Pearson, ii. 24, 407. Cf. the evidence for a primitive human pairing-season in Westermarck, 25.
[484] Purity of life is sometimes required of those who are to kindle the new fire (Frazer, iii. 260, 302).
[485] H. Spencer, Principles of Psychology, ii. 629; K. Groos, Play of Man, 361; Hirn, 25.
[486] Gummere, G. O. 331.
[487] Frazer, i. 217; iii. 258.
[488] Chaucer says of the Miller (C. T. prol. 548):
‘At wrastlynge he wolde have alwey the ram’;
and of Sir Thopas (C. T. 13670):