[437.4] Featherman, Papuo-Mel., 179.
[437.5] Codrington, 269.
[437.6] Du Chaillu, Eq. Afr., 18.
[438.1] i. De Groot, 90, 93, 64, 89.
[439.1] ii. De Groot, 441; ii. Gray, 25, 305.
[439.2] iv. Internat. Arch., 9. The Hawaiian practice of flinging the dead into a volcano or into the sea perhaps belongs to the class of superstitions dealt with in the above paragraph. Ellis, Hawaii, 336.
[439.3] Taylor, 208.
[444.1] Fison and Howitt, 170.
PRESS NOTICES
‘An interesting study in comparative mythology. The old school of interpreters explained the presence of irrational and repulsive elements in classic legend as due to loss of the primitive purer meaning of the names of the high-dwelling gods. But that has given place to a more rational method. This explains the presence of the gross and barbaric as actual survivals of beliefs and customs from the rude myth-making stage out of which the higher races slowly emerged. Truly, a more excellent way.’—Daily Chronicle.