[256.1] i. Bancroft, 636, citing Father Joseph Arlegui.
[256.2] Featherman, Papuo-Mel., 281.
[256.3] Lewin, 228, 315, 322.
[256.4] vii. Mélusine, 76, quoting Annales Apostoliques, July 1894.
[256.5] i. Risley, lviii. ii. 16, 111.
[257.1] Caroline Islanders, Featherman, Oceano-Mel., 348; La Pérouse Islanders, Ibid., Papuo-Mel., 95.
[257.2] i. De Nino, 51. As to the blood-rite in modern Italy, see Strack, 12; Finamore, Trad. Pop. Abruz., 101.
[258.1] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 633.
[259.1] Congress Report (1891), 249, et seqq. Cf. the Apache ceremony of spitting in a hole made in the ground at concluding a peace. iii. Journ. Am. F.L., 54. I add a few references here in support of the opinion that the saliva contains the life, and the recipient’s life is enhanced by a portion of the giver’s. The examples given subsequently in the text are directed to the further point raised in the following paragraph. iii. Am Urquell, 9, 54, 56, 58; iv. 170, 274; v. 20; Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 548; vi. Mélusine, 251; Blunt, 166; Marcellus, viii. 166, 172, 191; ix. 107; xxxvi. 70; Finamore, Trad. Pop. Abruz., 79, 135, 170, 191, 203; De Mensignac, 80, et seqq.; iv. Zeits. des Vereins, 84; i. Rivista, 222. (Cf. Zanetti, 59, 63; Von den Steinen, 335; Hodgkinson, 227.)
[261.1] Mrs. F. D. Bergen, in iii. Journ. Am. F.L., 51.