[176] Ellis’s Polynesian Researches, I., 529.
[177] Psa. 56 : 8.
[178] “The Goose Girl,” in Grimm’s Household Tales.
[179] 1 Kings 18 : 26-28.
[180] Van Lennep’s Bible Lands, pp. 767-769.
[181] See Herrera’s Gen. Hist. of Cont. and Isl. of America, III., 209, 211, 216, 300 f.; Clavigero’s Hist. of Mex., Bk. VI., chaps. 22, 38; Motolinia’s Hist. Ind. de Nueva España, p. 22; Landa’s Relat. Yucatan, XXXV.; Ximenez’s Hist. Ind. Gautem., pp. 171-181; Palacio’s San Salv. and Hond. (in Squier’s Coll., I.) 65 ff., 106, 116; Simon’s Ter. Not. Conq. Tier. Firm. en Nue Gran. (in Kingsborough’s Antiq. of Mex., VIII.) 208, 248; all cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 20-26, 28, 33. See, also, Bancroft’s Native Races of Pacif. Coast, I., 665, 723; II., 259, 306, 708, 710.
[182] Serving the purpose of the Otaheitan shark’s-teeth. See page [86] f., supra.
[183] Réville’s Native Religions of Mexico and Peru, p. 84 f.
[184] Cited in Adam’s Curiosities of Superstition.
[185] Cited in Benson’s Remarkable Trials and Notorious Characters, p. 11.