[39.1] Bernau, 59.
[39.2] Mannhardt, i. Baumcultus, 48.
[39.3] Frazer, ii. Golden Bough, 329. Mr. Frazer also notices that in the Cameroons the life of a person is believed to be sympathetically bound up with that of a tree; but it does not appear how this is believed to arise. Here, perhaps, I may call the attention of students to the following superstitions as yet unexplained. The Makololo of the Zambesi Valley object to plant mangoes, lest they die. (Does the mango in growing absorb the planter’s life?) The native Portuguese of Tette think that a man who plants coffee will never be happy after. Livingstone, Zambesi, 47. In Southern India the person who sows cocoa-nut seed is expected to die when the trees which grow from the seeds he has planted bear fruit. Pandit Natesa Sastri, in i. N. Ind. N. and Q., 101. On Bowditch Island in the South Pacific Ocean cocoa-nuts could only be planted on the king’s death: he who planted them at other times would die. Lister, in xxi. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 54. In Devonshire and Gloucestershire parsley must not be transplanted. Dyer, 3; County F.L., Gloucestershire, 54. I have found the superstition still rife in Gloucestershire.
[39.4] Featherman, Papuo-Mel., 152.
[40.1] Von Wlislocki, in iii. Am Urquell, 9.
[40.2] Ploss, ii. Kind, 221.
[40.3] Prof. V. M. Mikhailovskii, translated by O. Wardrop, in xxiv. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 83.
[41.1] ii. Journ. Am. F.L., 187.
[41.2] v. Records of the Past, N.S., ix. Prof. Sayce has some little doubt about the reading; but the sense appears clear enough.
[41.3] “The squaws generally agreed that they had discovered life enough in them [the portraits he had painted] to render my medicine too great for the Mandans, saying that such an operation could not be performed without taking away from the original something of his existence, which I put in the picture, and they could see it move, could see it stir.… A great many have become again alarmed, and are unwilling to sit, for fear, as some say, that they will die prematurely if painted; and as others say, that if they are painted the picture will live after they are dead, and they cannot sleep quiet in their graves.” i. Catlin, 107, 109.