[177.2] Hollis, Nandi, 9, 99.
[177.3] J. A. I., xliii. 49.
[177.4] Jes. Rel., xii. 25.
[177.5] J. A. Mason, Univ. Cal. Pub., x. 185.
[178.1] Lozano, Desc. Chorographica del Gran Chaco (1733), 71, quoted Payne, i. 391 note.
[178.2] Payne, l.c.
[178.3] Int. Arch., Suppl., xiii. 88.
[179.1] Neuhauss, iii. 157. I may refer also to the account of a young Kayan brave in Borneo taking his arms and sallying forth to fight the Thunder-god (Int. Arch., xxi. 139). But further examples are unnecessary.
[180.1] Frazer, Magic Art, i. 327 sqq.
[180.2] Von Alpenburg, 262, 365. Many such knives are to be found in peasants’ houses in the Lower Inn valley. In the Netherlands these whirlwinds are held to be “the Travailing Mother,” who seems to be a woman dead in childbirth unconfessed of mortal sin. She cannot be received into heaven. She is equally denied a place in hell, since her sufferings and death have already provided a sufficient penance. Hence she wanders about, seeking an abiding-place (Wolf, Niederl. Sag., 616). Women who die in childbirth are commonly considered very dangerous ghosts. See below, [p. 213].