The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

[34]. Rawlinson’s History of Herodotus, II., 47, 48.

[35]. Mackay’s Mackay of Uganda, pp. 112 f., 177.

[36]. See “Sacred Laws of the Aryas,” II., 2, 4, in Sacred Books of the East, II., 107.

[37]. “A bali is an offering of any sort, such as a handful of rice, flung to birds or spirits or waters, or to any supernatural beings. A mantra is a Vedic text, a verse muttered during a religious ceremony; often used in incantations, or in legitimate services to a god.”–Prof. Dr. E.W. Hopkins.

[38]. See “Sacred Laws of the Aryas,” V., 12, in Sacred Books of the East, II., 200, 233.

[39]. See Sir Henry M. Elliot’s Races of the Northwestern Provinces of India (Beames’s ed.), I., 197.

[40]. See report of a meeting of the Bombay Anthropological Society, in London Folk-Lore Journal, VI., p. 77.

[41]. Jones and Kropf’s Folk-Tales of Magyars, p. 410 f., note.

[42]. Leland’s Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition, p. 282.

[43]. Ibid., p. 321 f.