[133.2] Ploss, i. Weib, 436.
[134.1] Plutarch, Names of Rivers and Mountains, xxiv.
[134.2] Featherman, Aoneo-Mar., 80.
[134.3] De Charencey, Le Fils, 16.
[134.4] iv. Sacred Bks., lxxix.; v. 143 note, 144; xxiii. 195, 226, 307; De Charencey, Traditions, 31, quoting Tavernier; Rev. Dr. Mills, in Nineteenth Century, Jan. 1894, 51.
[134.5] Gerv. Tilb. (Decision i. c. 17), 6, 68.
[135.1] Browne, Vulgar Errors (l. vii. c. 16), 371.
[135.2] Arcana Microcosmi: or, The hid Secrets of Man’s Body discovered, etc. By A. R. (London, 1652), 132.
[136.1] Brinton, Amer. Hero-Myths, 47, citing Schoolcraft, who must, however, be generally accepted with caution.
[136.2] Kalevala, runes xlv. and i. I have already referred to another legend of the fertilisation of Loujatar, [p. 114], note. The Magic Songs of the Finns are full of these stories. See Hon. J. Abercromby, in iv. Folklore, 35, 37, 47. The Magyars tell of a wind-begotten supernatural steed. Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Mag., 10. Sir Walter Scott refers somewhere to a border ballad of a maiden impregnated by the night-wind; but I have mislaid the reference.