[419] Williams, Fiji, 204.
[420] Rink, Tales, &c. of the Esquimaux, 90.
[421] Algic Researches, ii. 226.
[422] Hiawatha, Canto xxi.
[423] Steller, 267. ‘Die Italmanes geben nach ihrer ungemein lebhaften Phantasie von allen Dingen Raison, und lassen nicht das geringste ohne Critic vorbei.’ Yet they had neither reverence nor names for the stars, calling only the Great Bear the moving star, 281.
[424] Travels in Australia, i. 261, 297.
[425] Thompson, South Africa, ii. 34.
[426] Aubrey’s Miscellanies, 197.
[427] Those who doubt the existence of much popular superstition in this century may judge of the amount and value of the evidence by referring to the following books: 1. All the volumes of Notes and Queries, Index, Folk-Lore. 2. Harland and Wilkinson, Lancashire Folk-Lore, 1867. 3. Henderson’s Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders, 1866. 4. Kelly’s Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-Lore, 1863. 5. Stewart’s Popular Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland, 1851. 6. Sternberg’s Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire, 1851. 7. Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, 1851. 8. Birlinger, Volksthümliches aus Schwaben, 1861. 9. Koehler, Volksbrauch im Voigtlande, 1867. 10. Bosquet, La Normandie Romanesque, 1845.
[428] Origin of Civilisation, 33.