[80] Langsdorff, op. cit. i. 136. The writer's language seems to imply that the spirit whom the priestly physician caught in his hands and interrogated was the patient's own soul.
[81] Mathias G——, op. cit. p. 45; C. S. Stewart, op. cit. i. 247; Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, op. cit. pp. 228 sq.
[82] Radiguet, op. cit. pp. 238 sq.
[83] Radiguet, op. cit. p. 245; Clavel, op. cit. p. 44, note1. Compare Mathias G——, op. cit. p. 115.
[84] Mathias G——, op. cit. pp. 114. sq.; Eyriaud des Vergnes, op. cit. p. 58. Compare Radiguet, op. cit. pp. 260 sqq.
[85] C. S. Stewart, op. cit. i. 263; Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, op. cit. pp. 249 sq.
[86] Radiguet, op. cit. p. 284; Clavel, op. cit. p. 39.
[87] Porter, op. cit. ii. 121.
[88] Radiguet, op. cit. pp. 283 sq. Another writer mentions that at the moment of death it was customary for a number of matrons to strip themselves naked and execute obscene dances at the door of the house, crying out at the pitch of their voices, "Father! father!" See Mathias G——, op. cit. p. 116.
[89] Melville, Typee, pp. 180, 201.