[624] J. J. M. de Groot, op. cit. iii. 1043 sq.
[625] Mission Pavie, Indo-Chine, 1879–1895, Géographie et voyages, i. (Paris, 1901) pp. 35–37. The kind of optical illusion which this mock execution was intended to expiate is probably caused by a mist or exhalation rising from damp ground.
[626] N. Adriani en A. C. Kruijt, “Van Posso naar Parigi, Sigi en Lindoe,” Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap, xlii. (1898) p. 524.
[627] J. Mooney, “Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees,” Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1891), p. 352; id. in Nineteenth Annual Report, etc., part i. (Washington, 1900) p. 295.
[628] Relations des Jésuites, 1642, pp. 86 sq. (Canadian reprint).
[629] W. Ellis, History of Madagascar, i. 454 sqq.; Father Abinal, “Astrologie Malgache,” Missions Catholiques, xi. (1879) pp. 432–434, 481–483. Compare J. B. Piolet, Madagascar et les Hovas (Paris, 1895), pp. 72 sq.
[630] The principles of contagious magic are lucidly stated and copiously illustrated by Mr. E. S. Hartland in the second volume of his Legend of Perseus (London, 1895).
[631] Meantime I may refer the reader to The Golden Bough, Second Edition, i. 367 sqq.
[632] R. Parkinson, Dreissig Jähre in der Südsee (Stuttgart, 1907), pp. 118 sq.
[633] As to the diffusion of this custom in Australia see above, p. [97].