[594] R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (Oxford, 1891), pp. 181–185.
[595] W. Ridgeway, The Early Age of Greece (Cambridge, 1901), i. 330 sq.; id., “The Origin of Jewellery,” Report of the British Association for 1903 (meeting at Southport), pp. 815 sq.
[596] Orphica: Lithica, 230 sqq., ed. G. Hermann. Pliny mentions (Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 192) a white tree-stone (“dendritis alba”) which, if buried under a tree that was being felled, would prevent the woodman’s axe from being blunted.
[597] Orphica: Lithica, 189 sqq.; compare Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 162.
[598] W. Ridgeway, The Early Age of Greece, i. 330.
[599] J. G. von Hahn, Albanesische Studien, i. 158.
[600] K. Freiherr von Leoprechting, Aus dem Lechrain (Munich, 1855), p. 92.
[601] Orphica: Lithica, 335 sqq. This was perhaps the “dragon-stone” which was supposed to confer extraordinary sharpness of vision on its owner. See Ptolemaeus Hephaestionis, Nov. Hist. v. p. 150, in Photius, Bibliotheca, ed. I. Bekker, p. 192 of A. Westermann’s Mythographi Graeci.
[602] Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 124.
[603] Orphica: Lithica, 320 sq.