[257] Rev. J. Roscoe, “The Bahima,” Journal of the R. Anthropological Institute, xxxvii. (1907) p. 104.
[258] Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, 5; Hesychius, s.v. Δευτερόποτμος.
[259] W. Caland, Die altindischen Todten- und Bestattungsgebräuche (Amsterdam, 1896), p. 89. Among the Hindoos of Kumaon the same custom is reported to be still observed. See Major Reade in Panjab Notes and Queries, ii. p. 74, § 452.
[260] W. S. Routledge and K. Routledge, With a Prehistoric People, the Akikuyu of British East Africa (London, 1910), pp. 151 sq. The ceremony was briefly described by me on Dr. Crawford’s authority in Totemism and Exogamy, iv. 228.
[261] As to these rites among the Akikuyu see W. S. Routledge and K. Routledge, op. cit. pp. 154 sqq.
[262] The Golden Bough, Second Edition, iii. 422 sqq.; Totemism and Exogamy, i. 44, iii. 463 sqq., 485, 487 sq., 489 sq., 505, 532, 542, 545, 546, 549.
[263] W. Caland, Altindisches Zauberritual (Amsterdam, 1900), p. 119; M. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (Oxford, 1897), pp. 358 sq. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xlii.).
[264] W. H. Keating, Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter’s River (London, 1825), ii. 159.
[265] Theocritus, Id. ii. 28 sq.; Virgil, Ecl. viii. 81 sq. In neither of these passages is the wax said to have been fashioned in the likeness of the beloved one, but it may have been so.
[266] As to the waxen models of the human body, or parts of it, which are still dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Kevelaer, see R. Andree, Votive und Weihegaben des Katholischen Volks in Süddeutschland (Brunswick, 1904) p. 85; and as to votive images of hearts in general, see id. pp. 127 sq.