[36] Cf. on this matter Whitney’s Oriental and Linguistic Studies, p. 203.
[37] Mythology of the Aryan Nations, i. 108.
[38] Mental Physiology, p. 315.
[39] Spenser says—
“Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies’ theft.”
[40] An Algonquin legend begins: “In old times, in the beginning of things, men were as animals and animals as men; how this was, no one knows.”—Leland’s Algonquin Legends, p. 31.
[41] And cf. Bourke’s Snake Dance of the Moquis, passim.
[42] Cf. Mahaffy’s Prolegomena to Ancient History, p. 392.
[43] Vol. i., Trübner and Co. See for some valuable illustrations from early English and other sources an article by Rev. Dr. Morris, in Contemp. Rev., May 1881, and the Folk-Lore Journal, 1884-85, for translations of Jâtakas, also by Dr. Morris.
[44] Travels in N.W. and W. Australia, ii. 229.