[144]. Ibid., p. 127.

[145]. Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 135 f.

[146]. This is the case with the Church House in Philadelphia,–the “corner-stone” of which was laid while this page was writing.

[147]. See Erman’s Life in Ancient Egypt, p. 175.

[148]. See Coote’s “A Building Superstition,” in London Folk-Lore Journal, I., 22.

[149]. Lanciani’s Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries, p. 225 f.

[150]. See article “On Kirk-Grims” in The Cornhill Magazine for February, 1887, p. 192.

[151]. Ibid., p. 195.

[152]. See Bancroft’s Native Races, V., 471.

[153]. See Trumbull’s Studies in Oriental Social Life, pp. 98, 112–131.