[306.5] Sibree, 240, quoting Rev. R. T. Batchelor, in Antananarivo Annual.
[307.1] Featherman, Tur., 108.
[307.2] Codrington, 255, 259, 271, 284.
[307.3] i. Macdonald, 111.
[307.4] Featherman, Nigr., 375. Why the fowl should be spared if it refuse to eat I do not quite understand. Compare, however, similar divination in India. Crooke, 164; i. N. Ind. N. and Q., 33.
[307.5] ii. Rep. Austr. Ass., 322.
[308.1] Featherman, Papuo-Mel., 34.
[308.2] Prof. Haddon, in xix. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 421.
[309.1] F. Fawcett, in v. Folklore, 30.
[309.2] Featherman, Tur., 506 note, quoting Fahne’s Livland; ibid., 459. The Koraiks of Siberia also kill and eat the reindeer which have drawn the body to the funeral pile, throwing the remains of the repast into the fire. Georgi, 99.