[200.2] Darwin, Journ., 68.
[203.1] ii. Brand, 268 note, quoting Statistical Account.
[204.1] xxvii. Antiquary, 169. Heron (Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland, 282) gives a less complete account of the practices at Strathfillan. In his time (1792) the offerings consisted of clothes, or a small bunch of heath. He asserts, I know not on what authority, that “more precious offerings used once to be brought. But these being never left long in the unmolested possession of the saint, it has become customary to make him presents which may afford no temptation to theft.”
[204.2] At a sacred cave in Kumaon is a pool where the worshipper must bathe with his clothes on, and then leave them for the priest. iii. N. Ind. N. and Q., 147. An instance is recorded of a spring in Italy where it was believed that a child bathed before its seventh year would be healed of all diseases. The parents left the child’s clothes to be distributed among the poor. A bishop, however, positively put an end to the superstition; and the spring has since been called “Acqua Scommunicata.” Ramage, 274. This bishop was perhaps eccentric. The bishop of Girgenti does not seem to have prohibited the practice, at the church of San Calogero in that city, of bringing children, stripping them naked in pursuance of a vow, and leaving their best clothes hung on a stick before the altar. i. Rivista, 790.
[205.1] Gen. xxxi. 44.
[206.1] Livingstone, Zambesi, 229.
[206.2] Darwin, Journ., 46.
[206.3] Josh. vii. 25; 2 Sam. xviii. 17.
[207.1] Andree, i. Ethnog. Par., 46, 47, 49, 50, 55, quoting various writers; De Gubernatis, i. Myth. Plantes, 160 note, citing Mantegazza; Finamore, Trad. Pop. Abr., 100; v. Am Urquell, 235; Georgeakis, 323; i. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 132; xiii. Archivio, 260; Le Braz, 230, 307; Thomas, Prob. Ohio Mounds, 12, citing Smith’s History of Wisconsin; Featherman, Chiapo-Mar., 495.
[207.2] Hahn, Tsuni-ǁgoam, 45, 46, 47, 52, 56, 69, quoting various writers.