[467]. H. Yule, ‘Journ. As. Soc. Bengal,’ vol. xiii. p. 628.
[468]. Hanusch, ‘Slaw. Myth.’ p. 269.
[469]. Bleek, ‘Reynard in S. Africa,’ pp. 69-74; C. J. Andersson, ‘Lake Ngami,’ p. 328; see Grout, ‘Zulu-land,’ p. 148; Arbousset and Daumas, p. 471. As to connexion of the moon with the hare, cf. Skr. ‘çaçanka;’ and in Mexico, Sahagun, book vii. c. 2, in Kingsborough, vol. vii.
[470]. Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. p. 205. Compare the Caroline Island myth that in the beginning men only quitted life on the last day of the waning moon, and resuscitated as from a peaceful sleep when she reappeared; but the evil spirit Erigirers inflicted a death from which there is no revival: De Brosses, ‘Hist. des Navig. aux Terres Australes,’ vol. ii. p. 479. Also in a song of the Indians of California it is said, that even as the moon dies and returns to life, so they shall be re-born after death; Duflot de Mofras in Bastian, ‘Rechtsverhältnisse,’ p. 385, see ‘Psychologie,’ p. 54.
[471]. ‘Journ. Ind. Archip.’ vol. i. p. 284; vol. iv. p. 333; Tickell in ‘Journ. As. Soc.’ Bengal, vol. ix. part ii. p. 797; Latham, ‘Descr. Eth.’ vol. ii. p. 422.
[472]. Stanbridge in ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. i. pp. 301-3.
[473]. Schoolcraft, ‘Algic Res.’ vol. i. pp. 57-66. The story of the hero or deity invulnerable like Achilles save in one weak spot, recurs in the tales of the slaying of the Shining Manitu, whose scalp alone was vulnerable, and of the mighty Kwasind, who could be killed only by the cone of the white pine wounding the vulnerable place on the crown of his head (vol. i. p. 153; vol. ii. p. 163).
[474]. Taylor, ‘New Zealand,’ p. 363.
[475]. Stanbridge, l.c.; Charlevoix, vol. vi. p. 148; Leems, ‘Lapland,’ in Pinkerton, vol. i. p. 411. The name of the Bear occurring in North America in connexion with the stars of the Great and Little Bear (Charlevoix, l.c.; Cotton Mather in Schoolcraft, ‘Tribes,’ vol. i. p. 284) has long been remarked on (Goguet, vol. i. p. 262; vol. ii. p. 366, but with reference to Greenland, see Cranz, p. 294). See observations on the history of the Aryan name in Max Müller, ‘Lectures,’ 2nd series, p. 361.
[476]. Casalis, p. 196; Waitz, vol. ii. p. 191.