[872] On this question, see Negrioli, Dei Genii presso i Romani; the articles Daimon and Genius in the Dict. of Antiq.; Preller, Romische Mythologie, II, pp. 195 ff.
[873] Negrioli, ibid., p. 4.
[874] Ibid., p. 8.
[875] Ibid., p. 7.
[876] Ibid., p. 11. Cf. Samter, Der Ursprung der Larencultus, in Archiv f. Religions-wissenschaft, 1907, pp. 368-393.
[877] Schulze, loc. cit., p. 237.
[878] Strehlow, I, p. 5. Cf. Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 133; Gason, in Curr, II, p. 69.
[879] See the case of a Mura-mura who is considered the spirit of certain hot springs, in Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 482.
[880] Nor. Tr., pp. 313 f.; Mathews, Journ. of the Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, XXXVIII, p. 351. Among the Dieri there is also a Mura-mura whose function is to produce rain (Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 798 f.).
[881] Roth. Superstition, etc., § 67. Cf. Dawson, p. 59.