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[114]. Burton, ‘Wit and Wisdom from West Africa,’ p. 373.

[115]. Shortland, ‘Trads. of New Zealand,’ p. 131.

[116]. Turner, ‘Polynesia,’ p. 348; see also Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. p. 250.

[117]. Mariner, ‘Tonga Is.’ vol. i. p. 456.

[118]. Garcilaso de la Vega, ‘Hist. de la Florida,’ vol. iii. ch. xli.

[119]. Among dissertations on the subject, see especially Sir Thos. Browne ‘Pseudodoxia Epidemica’ (Vulgar Errors), book iv. chap. ix.; Brand ‘Popular Antiquities,’ vol. iii. p. 119, &c.; R. G. Haliburton, ‘New Materials for the History of Man.’ Halifax, N. S. 1863; ‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’ (5th ed.) art. ‘sneezing,’ Wernsdorf, ‘De Ritu Sternutantibus bene precandi.’ Leipzig, 1741; see also Grimm, D. M. p. 1070, note.

[120]. Homer, Odyss. xvii. 541.

[121]. Xenophon, Anabasis, iii. 2, 9.