[114] Ellis, Ew̔e-speaking Peoples, p. 104. See also ibid. p. 24 (Slave and Gold Coast natives).
[115] Wilson, Western Africa, p. 394.
[116] Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 278.
[117] Nevill, ‘Vaeddas of Ceylon,’ in Taprobanian, i. 194.
[118] Iyer, ‘Nayādis of Malabar,’ in the Madras Government Museum’s Bulletin, iv. 72.
[119] Rig-Veda, x. 57. 5. Cf. Hopkins, op. cit. p. 143 sq.
[120] Yasts, xiii. 66 sqq.; &c.
[121] Aeschylus, Eumenides, 598.
[122] Jevons, in Plutarch’s Romane Questions, p. xli. Rohde, op. cit. p. 232.
[123] Ralston, Songs of the Russian People, pp. 119, 121. For other instances of a similar kind see Shooter, Kafirs of Natal, p. 161; Arbousset and Daumas, Tour to the North-East of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, p. 340 (Bechuanas); Casalis, Basutos, p. 248; Wilken, Het animisme bij de volken van den Indischen Archipel, p. 194 sqq.; Nansen, Eskimo Life, p. 290 (Greenlanders); Jessen, Afhandling over de Norske Finners og Lappers Hedenske Religion, p. 27; Friis, Lappisk Mythologi, p. 115 sq.; von Düben, Lappland, p. 249; Abercromby, Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, i. 178 (Mordvins); von Wlislocki, Volksglaube der Zigeuner, p. 43 sqq. (Gypsies).