[254.1] Frazer, Balder, i. 36.

[255.1] Boaz, Brit. Ass. Rep., 1890, 575.

[255.2] Tylor Essays, 110, citing Riedel, Deutsche Geographische Blätter, x. 286.

[256.1] S. Afr. F. L. Journ., i. 51.

[256.2] See for example the cases collected by Dr Frazer, J. A. I., xv. 84, 85

[257.1] Supra, [p. 209].

[257.2] Int. Arch., xiii., Suppl. 72.

[257.3] Jesup. Exped., vi. 113; Riedel, 307; Clozel, 363.

[257.4] Journ. Am. F. L., xvi. 137.

[258.1] Frobenius, Heiden-Neger, 408. Compare the widows’ dance among the Wawanga in the Elgon District, British East Africa (J. A. I., xliii. 36). Among the Ibo-speaking people of Nigeria, at Aguku, the women of the quarter in which a death has occurred march round at midnight and sing (Thomas, Ibo, i. 80).