[448] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, iii. 228.
[449] Latham, Desc. Ethn., i. 141.
[450] Jones, Antiquities of the Southern Indians, p. 21, and Schoolcraft, I.T., v. 267.
[451] Lancashire Folk-Lore, p. 63.
[452] Sir W. Betham, Gael and Cimbri: 1834. ‘The branches of a tree near the Stone of Fire Temple in the Persian province of Fars were found thickly hung with rags, and the same offerings are common on bushes round sacred wells in the Dekkan of India and Ceylon.’ (Forbes-Leslie, Early Races of Scotland, i. 163.)
[453] Schiefner, Introduction to Sjögren’s Livische Grammatik. St. Petersburg, 1861.
[454] The instances of Esthonian superstitions are taken from Grimm’s collection in the Deutsche Mythologie. Their date is 1788. The same interest attaches to them from an archæological point of view, whether they exist still or have become extinct.
The End.