[174.1] Williams, Burmah, 91.
[174.2] Ind. Cens. Rep., 1911, x. 61.
[174.3] Herod., iv. 94. Rohde (Psyche, ii. 28 note) suggests that the personage against whom the arrows and threats were aimed was not strictly a god, but an evil spirit or a magician. This, however, does not follow. Philo (l.c.) states that Xerxes, when his bridge across the Hellespont was destroyed, aimed his arrows at the sun, and regards the action with pious horror as a symptom of insanity.
[175.1] Herod., iv. 184.
[175.2] J. A. I., xxxvi. 51.
[175.3] Moffat, 261, 265.
[175.4] Chapman, i. 213. The word translated by Chapman as “God” is doubtless Morimo. Cf. ibid., 46, “All Bechuanas believe in God (Morimo), whom they laud or execrate as good or bad luck attends them.”
[176.1] Callaway, Rel. Syst., 404.
[176.2] Hahn, 46, 51, 59, 94. Cf. 99, where the practice of the Urjangkut, a tribe of Black Tartars, to scold the thunder and lightning is cited from Bastian.
[177.1] Lloyd, 397. According to another account, “when it thunders the Bushmen are very angry and curse bitterly, thinking that the storm is occasioned by some evil being” (Thunberg, ii., 163).