[71.1] i. Schouten, 115. The islanders were grievously offended when the travellers caught any crocodiles, and attempted to prevent them from doing so. Compare a Tupi custom which, if accurately reported, looks like human sacrifice. Featherman, Chiapo-Mar., 346. I do not feel at liberty to do more than call attention to it here.
[71.2] ii. Gray, 306.
[72.1] Ellis, i. Pol. Res., 358, 357.
[72.2] Plut. Parallels, 35.
[72.3] Pausanias, viii. 2. See Mr. Lang’s comments, ii. Myth, R. and R., 177. Another Greek vestige of human sacrifice to a bestial god seems to be the ceremony in the temple of Artemis Tauropolos at Halæ, in which blood was drawn from a man’s throat by the edge of a sword. See Lang, ii. Myth, R. and R., 216.
[73.1] Ellis, Land of Fetish, 122.
[74.1] ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 76, quoting Abel Rémusat, Histoire de la ville de Khotan.
[75.1] ii. N. Ind. N. and Q., 27, quoting Cunningham, Archæol. Rep.
[75.2] Such legends are common in certain parts of Europe. See Science of F. T., ch. ix., where I have examined a number of them.
[76.1] Crooke, 297. Compare the legend of the canal of Chamba, iv. Ind. N. and Q., 12; Science of F. T., 82.