[225] See Cory’s Anc. Frag., p. 59 f.
[226] Ibid., p. 15.
[227] Comp. Fabri’s Evagatorium, III., 218.
[228] Beginnings of History, p. 52, note.
[229] Bryant’s Odyssey, Bks. x. and xi.
[230] See Sayce’s Anc. Emp. of East, p. 146.
[231] Among the ancient Peruvians, there was said to be a class of devil-worshipers, known as canchus, or rumapmicuc, the members of which sucked the blood from sleeping youth, to their own nourishing and to the speedy dying away of the persons thus depleted. (See Arriaga’s Extirpacion de la Idolatria del Piru, p. 21 f.; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 48.). See, also, Ralston’s Russian Folk Tales, pp. 311-328.
[232] Farrer’s Primitive Manners and Customs, p. 23 f.
[233] The primitive belief seems to have had a sound basis in scientific fact.
[234] Transfusion of Human Blood, pp. 2-4.