Folklore as an Historical Science

by George Laurence Gomme

[342] Skeat and Blagden, Pagan Races of Malay Peninsula, i. 13.

[343] Op. cit., i. 53-4, 139, 169, 172, 341.

[344] Op. cit., i. 170.

[345] Op. cit., i. 243-248, 268.

[346] Op. cit., i. 494; ii. 56, 218.

[347] Op. cit., ii. 3. Compare Journ. Indian Archipelago, iv. 427, "they are called after particular trees, that is, if a child is born under or near a cocoanut or durian, or any particular tree in the forest, it is named accordingly," and John Anderson, Considerations relative to Malayan Peninsula, 1824, p. xli.

[348] Op. cit., ii. 4, 192, 194.

[349] Op. cit., ii. 174, 209.

[350] Archæological Review, i. 13, from an official report published in a Government Blue Book.

[351] Brinton, The American Race; Curtin, Creation Myths of Primitive America.