[347] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 552 sqq.
[348] Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition (1907), pp. 77 sqq.
[349] J. B. Purvis, Through Uganda to Mount Elgon (London, 1909), pp. 302 sq.
[350] J. H. Weeks, “Notes on some Customs of the Lower Congo People,” Folk-lore, xix. (1908) p. 422.
[351] Plato, Phaedo, 18, p. 72 E καὶ μήν, ἔφη ὁ Κέβης ὑπολαβών, καὶ κατ’ ἐκεῖνόν γε τὸν λόγον, ὦ Σώκρατες, εἰ ἀληθής ἐστιν, ὃν σὺ εἴωθας θαμὰ λέγειν, ὅτι ἡμῖν ἡ μάθησις οὐκ ἄλλο τι ἢ ἀνάμνησις τυγχάνει οὖσα, καὶ κατὰ τοῦτον ἀνάγκη που ἡμᾶς ἐν προτέρῳ τινὶ χρόνῳ μεμαθηκέναι ἂ νῦν ἀναμιμνησκόμεθα. τοῦτο δὲ ἀδύνατον, εἰ μὴ ἦν που ἡμῶν ἡ ψυχὴ πρὶν ἐν τῷδε τῷ ἀνθρωπίνῳ εἴδει γενέσθαι· ὥστε καὶ ταύτη ἀθάνατόν τι ἔοικεν ἡ ψυχὴ εἶναι. Compare Wordsworth, Ode on Intimations of Immortality:
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
[352] E. M. Gordon, Indian Folk-tales (London, 1908), p. 49.
[353] E. Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, iii. 398.
[354] R. V. Russel, in Census of India, 1901, vol. xiii. Central Provinces, p. 93.
[355] Relations des Jésuites, 1636, p. 130 (Canadian Reprint).