[136.3] iii. Bancroft, 175, note. Cf. Dr. A. W. Bell, in i. Journ. Ethnol. Soc., N.S., 250, where “a dewdrop from the Great Spirit” is said to have fallen upon the maiden’s bosom, entered her blood and caused her to conceive. This comes to the same thing; but Bancroft’s version seems more primitive.
[137.1] De Charencey, Traditions, 34, citing the Marquis d’Hervey-Saint-Denis. According to an Irish tradition, related in America by a woman from Roscommon, the ass and cow are accounted sacred, because these animals breathed upon the infant Jesus in the manger, and thus kept him warm. vi. Journ. Amer. F.L., 264.
[138.1] De Charencey, Traditions, 35.
[138.2] i. Reed, 201.
[139.1] Second Voyage du Père Tachard, 247. Sommonocodon is obviously Buddha. Both this story and one previously given (on [p. 114]) have been filtered through the minds of Jesuit fathers anxious to discover identifications with Christian teaching.
[139.2] De Charencey, Le Fils, 13.
[142.1] iii. Radloff, 82.
[143.1] De Charencey, Traditions, 38, quoting Father Giov. Phil. Marini; Southey, iv. Commonplace Bk., 41, quoting Picart.
[143.2] De Charencey, Traditions, 36.
[143.3] Ellis, i. Polyn. Res., 262. Cf. the account of creation in the Windward Isles, ibid., 324.