[314]. Plin. xxx. 14, 20. Cardan, ‘De Var. Rerum,’ cap. xliii.

[315]. Ward, ‘Hindoos,’ vol. i. p. 134, vol. ii. p. 247.

[316]. Doolittle, ‘Chinese,’ vol. i. p. 122.

[317]. Grimm, ‘D. M.pp. 1118-23; Wuttke, ‘Volksaberglaube,’ pp. 155-70; Brand, ‘Pop. Ant.’ vol. ii. p. 375, vol. iii. p. 286; Halliwell, ‘Pop. Rhymes,’ p. 208; R. Hunt, ‘Pop. Romances,’ 2nd Series, p. 211; Hylten-Cavallius, ‘Wärend och Wirdarne,’ vol. i. p. 173. It is said, however, that rags fastened on trees by Gypsies, which passers-by avoid with horror as having diseases thus banned into them, are only signs left for the information of fellow vagrants; Liebich, ‘Die Zigeuner,’ p. 96.

[318]. Catlin, ‘N. A. Indians,’ vol. i. p. 90.

[319]. J. L. Wilson, ‘W. Africa,’ p. 394.

[320]. Meiners, ‘Gesch. der Rel.’ vol. i. p. 305; J. G. Müller, p. 209.

[321]. Mason, Karens, l.c. p. 231.

[322]. Meiners, vol. ii. pp. 721-3.

[323]. Rochefort, ‘Iles Antilles,’ p. 418. See Martius, ‘Ethnog. Amer.’ vol. i. p. 485 (Yumanas swallow ashes of deceased with liquor, that he may live again in them).