[84.1] Boddam-Whetham, 210. Lander reports a similar custom on the part of the river-tribes of the Niger.
[84.2] Rev. J. Macdonald, in iii. Folklore, 342. Among the Bechuana the water-snake, often found in fountains, is sacred; and it is believed that if one of them be killed the fountain will be dried up. Callaway, Tales, 290 note, quoting Philip, Researches in S. Africa.
[85.1] Bérenger-Féraud, ii. Superstitions, 19. According to the Senephos of Kenedugu the aboriginal spirits of the country retired, on the Bambara conquest, to the depths of certain pools, where they drown any one whom they hear speaking a word of Bambara in the neighbourhood of their watery dwellings. But we are told nothing about the shape of these spirits. vii. Rev. Trad. Pop., 761, quoting the report of Dr. Crozat on his mission to Mossi (French Soudan).
[85.2] Rev. J. Macdonald in iii. Folklore, 342, 356. A story told at the last reference looks like the germ of a Rescue legend.
[85.3] Callaway, Tales, 56, 86.
[86.1] Callaway, Tales, 349 note, quoting Shaw The Story of my Mission.
[87.1] Zelia Nuttall, in viii. Journ. Am. F. L., 123, quoting Sahagun.
[88.1] Academy, October 1885, apparently from oral tradition at Balmaclenan. Compare the curious legend of the Senecas concerning a dragon which fed on corpses. ii. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 54.
[89.1] vii. Rev. Trad. Pop., 590.
[91.1] Brauns, 50; C. Pfoundes, in i. F. L. Record, 120. The latter relates that the rescued maiden married her deliverer, and contains some other unimportant variations. Both versions have been subjected to literary manipulation. The version of the tale of Susa No (ante, [p. 51]) given by Mr. Pfoundes (i. F. L. Record, 122) describes the maiden eaten by the serpent as “the yearly offering of a human sacrifice” to propitiate “the deity of the mountain.” But I hesitate to put this into the text, because Mr. Pfoundes does not give his authority, though I do not suggest it is not perfectly trustworthy. I am only anxious not to grasp too readily at evidence so exactly to my purpose.