[238] "Shells as Evidence of the Migration of Early Culture."
[239] "The Ascent of Olympus."
[240] A striking confirmation of the fact that the mandrake is really a surrogate of the cowry is afforded by the practice in modern Greece of using the mandrake carried in a leather bag in the same way (and for the same magical purpose as a love philtre) as the Baganda of East Africa use the cowry (in a leather bag) at the present time.
[241] Old Gerade was frank enough to admit that he "never could perceive shape of man or woman" (quoted by Rendel Harris, op. cit., p. 110).
[242] "Jacob and the Mandrakes," Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VIII, p. 22.
[243] The John Rylands Library.
[244] "The Ascent of Olympus."
[245] See the memoirs by Tümpel, Jahn, Houssay, and Jackson, to which reference is made elsewhere in these pages.
[246] The well-known circumstantial story told in Hesiod's theogony.
[247] See the article "Aphrodite" in Roscher's "Lexikon".