[1277] Communication of Gason in J.A.I., XXIV (1895), p. 175.
[1278] Nor. Tr., p. 286.
[1279] Gason, The Dieri Tribe, in Curr, II, p. 68.
[1280] Gason, The Dieri Tribe: Eylmann, p. 208.
[1281] Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 277 and 430.
[1282] Ibid., p. 195.
[1283] Gason, The Dieri Tribe, in Curr, II, p. 69. The same process is used to expiate a ridiculous act. Whenever anybody, by his awkwardness or otherwise, has caused the laughter of others, he asks one of them to beat him on the head until blood flows. Then things are all right again, and the one who was laughed at joins in the general gaiety (ibid., p. 70).
[1284] Eylmann, pp. 212 and 447.
[1285] See above, p. 385.
[1286] The Religion of the Semites, lect. XI.