[51] Adair, op. cit. p. 152.

[52] Herodotus, i. 40. The Shluh of Southern Morocco and some other Berber tribes, in the central parts of the same country, consider that not only homicide, but the killing of a dog for ever after prevents a person from performing sacrifice at the “Great Feast”; see Folk-Lore, xxii, 144.

[53] Cæsar, De bello gallico, vi. 14.

[54] d’Arbois de Jubainville, Civilisation des Celtes, p. 254.

[55] Cæsar, De bello gallico, vi. 16.

[56] Gratian, Decretum, ii. 23. 8. 30.

[57] Concilium Lateranense IV., A.D. 1215, ch. 18 (Labbe-Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum collectio, xxii. 1007).

[58] Concilium Lateranense IV., A.D. 1215, ch. 18 (Labbe-Mansi, op. cit. xxii. 1007).

[59] Thomassin, Dictionnaire de discipline ecclésiastique, ii. 1074.

[60] Ibid. ii. 1069.