[17.3] S. Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands, pp. 65 sq. (The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., London, 1825, vol. vi.).
[17.4] J. G. Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900), p. 5.
[17.5] W. G. Black, Folk-Medicine (London, 1883), pp. 140 sqq. See further The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i. 368 sqq.; and especially Raymond Crawfurd, The King’s Evil (Oxford, 1911), which contains a full history of the superstition from the eleventh century onwards, authenticated by documentary evidence.
[18.1] W. Mariner, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, Second Edition (London, 1818), i. 434, note.
[18.2] Proyart’s “History of Loango, Kakongo, and other Kingdoms in Africa,” in J. Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, xvi. 573.
[18.3] Raymond Crawfurd, The King’s Evil, pp. 11 sqq., 18 sqq.
[18.4] J. Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Ninth Edition (London, 1822), i. 18 sq.
[18.5] Raymond Crawfurd, The King’s Evil, pp. 144 sqq., 159 sqq.
Chapter III Notes
[21.1] Old New Zealand, by a Pakeha Maori (London, 1884), pp. 94-97, compare id. p. 83.