[186] Cited in Drake’s The Witchcraft Delusion in New England, I., 187; II., 214.
[187] Ibid., I, xviii. See also, [Appendix], infra.
[188] Faust, Swanwick’s translation, Part I., lines 1360-1386.
[189] See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, II., 402; citing Boecler’s Ehsten Aberglaübische Gebraüche, 4.
[190] Egypt’s Place, V. 188.
[191] This is illustrated by Ebers, in his romance of “Uarda;” where the surgeon, Nebsecht, finds such difficulty in obtaining a human heart, in order to its anatomical study. See, also, Birch’s statement, in Egypt’s Place, V., 135, and Pierret’s Dict. d’Arch. Égypt., s. v. “Cœur.”
[192] Anc. Egypt., III., 472, note 6.
[193] Ibid., III., 466, note 3.
[194] In the Book of the Dead, Chapter xxxvi. tells “How a Person has his Heart made (or given) to him in the Hades.” And in preparing the mummy, a scarabæus,—a symbol of the creative or life-giving god—was put in the place of the heart. (See Rubric, chapter xxx., Book of the Dead; Anc. Egypt., III., 346, 486; also, note in Uarda, I., 305 f.).
[195] Egypt’s Place, V., 14.