[164.3] v. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 111, translating Relations des Jesuites (1636). In the Banks’ Islands are certain spirits called Nopitu. It is believed that a woman sometimes hears one of them say: “Mother, I am coming to you,” and feels it entering into her; and it is afterwards born as an ordinary child. Codrington, 154. This does not appear to be a case of migration.
[165.1] iii. Sax. Leechd., 66.
[165.2] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Siebenb. Sachs., 75, 152.
[165.3] Schiffer, in iv. Am Urquell, 187.
[165.4] Kohlrusch, 324.
[166.1] Rev. W. Gregor, in iii. Folklore, 68.
[166.2] i. Leg. Panj., 2.
[167.1] vi. Mélusine, 111, quoting Panjab N. and Q., and Indian N. and Q.
[169.1] Ploss, i. Weib, 436, 437, 438, 439, referring to various authorities. The Kich Negresses about Adaël, west of the White Nile, in Equatorial Africa, however, think it necessary to wash in liquids much less innocent than water, unless they want to be sterile. Kara Kirghiz women spend a night beside a holy well. v. Radloff, 2. The ceremonies they practise are not mentioned.
[169.2] Jevons, Plutarch’s Roman Questions, ci.; iii. L’Anthropologie, 548, 558; Congress (1891) Report, 345; Kolbe, 163; Rodd, 94; Dalton, passim; Ploss, i. Weib, 445, citing Böder; Winternitz, Altind. Hochz., 47, 101.