[217] W. Caland, op. cit. p. 164.
[218] H. W. Magoun, “The Asuri-Kalpa; a Witchcraft Practice of the Atharva-Veda,” American Journal of Philology, x. (1889) pp. 165–197.
[219] Asiatick Researches, v. (Fourth Edition, London, 1807) p. 389.
[220] J. A. Dubois, Mœurs, institutions, et cérémonies des peuples de l’Inde (Paris, 1825), ii. 63.
[221] Fr. Fawcett, in Madras Government Museum, Bulletin, iii. No. 1 (Madras, 1900), p. 85.
[222] W. Crooke, Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (Westminster, 1896), ii. 278 sq.
[223] Id., The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh (Calcutta, 1896), i. 137.
[224] A. A. Perera, “Glimpses of Singhalese Social Life,” Indian Antiquary, xxxiii. (1904) p. 57. For more evidence of such practices in India, see E. Thurston, Ethnographic Notes in Southern India, pp. 328 sqq.; id., Castes and Tribes of Southern India, iv. 489 sq., vi. 124; W. Crooke, Natives of Northern India, pp. 248 sq.
[225] E. Doutté, Magie et Religion dans l’Afrique du Nord (Algiers, 1908), pp. 61 sq.
[226] E. Doutté, op. cit. p. 299.