[290.3] O. Nemi, in i. Rivista, 959.
[290.4] Garnett, ii. Women, 496.
[290.5] Featherman, Tur., 205.
[290.6] Codrington, 272.
[290.7] Featherman, Aram., 621. In Barbary cooked food is distributed among the poor on the evening of the burial. This is called the supper of the grave. Ibid., 511.
[291.1] Featherman, Tur., 540. To these we may perhaps add the Patagonian custom of killing the horses of the deceased and distributing their flesh among his relations. Ibid., Chiapo-Mar., 495.
[291.2] Atkinson, 227; iii. Arch. Cambr., 4th ser., 332; Gent. Mag. Lib. (Manners and Cust.), 70; ii. Cymru Fu N. and Q., 271, 275. See also ii. Antigua, 188, where “dyer bread” and “biscuit cakes” (species of pastry) are said to have been formerly handed round at Negro funerals on the island, enveloped in white paper and sealed with black wax.
[292.1] iv. Folklore, 392.
[293.1] iii. Pennant, 150.
[293.2] Aubrey, Remaines, 23, 24.