[154.2] Deut. xviii. 9 sqq.
[154.3] Num. v. 11 sqq.
[155.1] Hos. iii. 4, 5. Cf. T. W. Davies, Magic, 36; and Encyc. Bibl., s.v.
[159.1] Weeks 177.
[161.1] Ælian, Var. Hist., xii. 23. Philo (Dreams, ii. 17) attributes the same practice to the Germans.
[161.2] O’Grady, ii. 518. Professor Whitley Stokes also gives it, F. L., iv. 488, from an Edinburgh MS. I quote his translation, which is to the same effect as Mr O’Grady’s.
[162.1] Skeat, Magic, 10.
[163.1] Vinson, 20. According to this story there were two cabin-boys, one of whom overheard the plot and the other struck the blow, but this appears to be a literary embellishment.
[163.2] Strackerjan, i. 324, 325; Hansen, 38. The Norse tale (by Asbjoernsen) is referred to, Mélusine, ii. 201. I have not seen it. Analogous tale in Ireland, Ant., xlv. 371.
[163.3] Tylor Essays, 138. Roscher (Ephialtes, 38) thinks it was “a quite obvious nightmare.”