[85.3] Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1784, 1805.
[85.4] Monseur, 90; Ostermann, 515. Cf. Science of Fairy Tales, 142, et seqq. There is a custom almost universal among the aborigines of America of preserving the bones of animals eaten; but it cannot at present be certainly ascribed to the order of ideas treated of in this chapter. I reserve it, therefore, for further investigation.
[86.1] viii. Rev. Trad. Pop., 331, quoting Gmelin, Voyage en Sibérie.
[86.2] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Sieb. Sachs., 160.
[86.3] W. J. Hoffman, M.D., in ii. Journ. Am. F.L., 32.
[86.4] Andree, ii. Ethnog. Par., 12.
[87.1] xviii. Pitrè, 129.
[87.2] J. B. Andrews, in ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 255.
[87.3] Leland, Etruscan, 354.
[87.4] G. Sajaktzis, in iv. Zeits. des Vereins, 142. The Belgian prescription is to throw the babe’s first bathwater on the fire, never into the street or the ordinary sewer, for fear of spells. ii. Bull. de F.L., 144. Cf. the German superstition that to rock an empty cradle deprives the baby of rest. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1778.