[196.4] A. H. Savage Landor, in Fortnightly Rev., Aug. 1894, 186.
[196.5] H. S. Sanderson, in xxiv. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 311.
[197.1] Campbell, i. Circular Notes, 350.
[197.2] vi. Mélusine, 154, 155, quoting the Temps. I have referred to these performances by women in an earlier chapter, and compared them with a similar practice in Glamorganshire. Perhaps I may be allowed to refer to the case of St. Oswald’s Well at Oswestry, where the wish is to be obtained by flinging on a certain stone the remainder of the water in one’s hand after drinking. It must be done at midnight. Burne, 428. The Japanese practice is also referred to by Chamberlain, xxii. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 357. Compare with the rite at Penvenan, suprà, [p. 186].
[197.3] xxii. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 359. See also 356. “In some of the Louisiade group there are certain very large well-known trees under which” the natives “have their feasts. These trees appear to be credited with possessing souls, as a portion of the feast is set aside for them, and bones, both pigs’ and human, are everywhere deeply imbedded in their branches.” Report of Special Commission for 1887 on British New Guinea, quoted in iii. Arch. Rev., 416. This custom, though not precisely the one now under discussion, is closely related.
[198.1] Andree, i. Ethnog. Par., 61, 60; vii. Internat. Archiv., 145. Crooke, 105, describing several rag-shrines in India, notes that they are generally called “Our Lady of Tatters.” One in Berár is called “The Lord of Tatters.”
[198.2] Andree, i. Ethnog. Par., 60.
[199.1] Mungo Park, 38.
[199.2] Gaidoz, in vii. Rev. de l’hist. des Rel., 7, quoting Charles de Rouvre, Bull. de la Soc. de Géog., Oct. 1880. M. Schmeltz has figured in vii. Internat. Archiv, 144, two specimens of the n’doké from the Congo and the Cameroon now in the National Museum of Ethnography at Leiden. They are stuck with pins and pieces of iron. Another from West Africa covered with nails may be seen in the British Museum. See also Herbert Ward, in xxiv. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 288.
[200.1] i. Binger, 212. See also Mungo Park, 250.