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[65]. Castrén, ‘Finn. Myth.’ p. 120.
[66]. Wuttke, ‘Volksaberglaube,’ pp. 213-17. Other cases of taking out the dead by a gap made on purpose: Arbousset and Daumas, p. 502 (Bushmen); Magyar, p. 351 (Kimbunda); Moffat, p. 307 (Bechuanas); Waitz, vol. iii. p. 199 (Ojibwas);—their motive is probably that the ghost may not find its way back by the door.
[67]. Oldfield in ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. iii. pp. 228, 236, 245.
[68]. Taylor, ‘New Zealand,’ p. 221; Schirren, p. 91; see Turner, ‘Polynesia,’ p. 233.
[69]. Morgan, ‘League of Iroquois,’ p. 174.
[70]. J. G. Müller, p. 286.
[71]. Castrén, ‘Finn. Myth.’ p. 126.
[72]. Cross in ‘Journ. Amer. Or. Soc.’ vol. iv. p. 309; Mason in ‘Journ. As. Soc. Bengal,’ 1865, part ii. p. 203. See also J. Anderson, ‘Exp. to W. Yunnan,’ pp. 126, 131 (Shans).
[73]. Bastian, ‘Psychologie,’ pp. 51, 99-101.