[181.1] Farnell, Evol., 43. Cf. Miss Harrison, Prolegomena, 101.
[181.2] I have discussed similar practices, Prim. Pat., i. 102. See also Mannhardt, Myth. Forsch., 113 sqq.; Frazer, Scapegoat, 255. These contain a large collection of examples, which put the magical and purificatory purpose beyond doubt.
[182.1] Mélusine, ii. 187, quoting the passage.
[182.2] Journ. Am. F. L., xxiii. 416, 418.
[182.3] Lumholtz, ii. 342, 422.
[183.1] Rev. Trad. Pop., xi. 663. Vâlmiki, the Indian epic poet, author of the Rámáyana, is said to have owed his birth to a similar blunder by a saint who was the object of prayers by two sisters-in-law, and mistook the maiden for the married woman (Harikishan Kaul, Ind. Cens. Rep., 1911, xiv. 131, citing Vaman Shiva Ram Apte’s Sanskrit Dictionary).
[184.1] Turner, R. B. E., xi. 194.
[184.2] M. Friedrich, Anthropos, ii. 101.
[185.1] Anthropos, vii. 74.
[185.2] Thurston, Castes, vi. 85.