[16] Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 350.
[17] Leland’s Algonquin Legends, pp. 111, 204.
[18] From Sans. mar, to “grind.” Ares and Mars come from the same root.
[19] Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv. sc. 4.
[20] In Finnish myth the dwarfs punish with pimples and ringworm those who enter new houses without bowing to the four corners.
[21] Both “pecuniary” and “fee” are, as established by Grimm’s law, from pecu. Latin pecu-a, pl. pecus, “cattle”; Sanskrit paçu, “cattle,” from pac, to fasten (that which is tied up, i.e. domestic cattle). Cf. Skeats’ Etymol. Dict. in loc. A.S. feoh is cognate with German vich, and the ideas these express occur in ktēma, the Greek word for “property,” which Grimm derives from the verb keto, “to feed cattle.”
[22] Not the same as the Greek Heraklês. The similarity of name led the Romans to identify their Hercules, who was a god of boundaries, like Jupiter Terminus, with the Greek hero. Cacus is not cognate with Greek kakos, bad, but was originally Cæcius, the “blinder” or “darkener.”
[23] Decline and Fall, iii. 171; Emerson’s English Traits, p. 123.
[24] See Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, p. 347, for similar Bulgarian legend about St. George.
[25] Haug’s Essays on the Parsis, tr. Vendidâd, pp. 225 ff.