[524] Aelian, Nat. Anim. i. 38.
[525] F. S. Krauss, Volksglaube und religiöser Brauch der Südslaven, p. 140. The custom of placing coins on the eyes of a corpse to prevent them from opening is not uncommon. Its observance in England is attested by the experienced Mrs. Gamp:—“When Gamp was summonsed to his long home, and I see him a-lying in Guy’s Hospital with a penny piece on each eye, and his wooden leg under his left arm, I thought I should have fainted away. But I bore up” (C. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. xix.).
[526] G. B. Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, p. 238.
[527] C. Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, i. 284.
[528] Father Lambert, in Missions Catholiques, xi. (1879) p. 43; id., Mœurs et superstitions des Néo-Calédoniens (Nouméa, 1900), pp. 30 sq.
[529] Hesiod, Works and Days, 750 sqq. But the lines are not free from ambiguity. See F. A. Paley’s note on the passage.
[530] E. Doutté, Magie et religion dans l’Afrique du Nord (Algiers, 1908), pp. 302 sq.
[531] J. Campbell, Travels in South Africa, Second Journey (London, 1822), ii. 206; Barnabas Shaw, Memorials of South Africa (London, 1840), p. 66.
[532] E. Casalis, The Basutos, pp. 271 sq.
[533] E. Casalis, op. cit. p. 272.