[634] See pp. [97] sqq.

[635] F. Bonney, “On some Customs of the Aborigines of the River Darling, New South Wales,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xiii. (1884) p. 128. For the practice of some Victorian tribes see above, p. [98].

[636] A. W. Howitt, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xiii. (1884) pp. 456 sq.; id., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 561.

[637] A. W. Howitt, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xvi. (1887) p. 55, xx. (1891) p. 81; id., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 561 sq.

[638] A. W. Howitt, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xx. (1891) pp. 80 sq.; id., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 655 sq.

[639] Father Porte, “Les Reminiscences d’un missionnaire du Basutoland,” Missions Catholiques, xxviii. (1896) p. 312.

[640] Charlotte Latham, “West Sussex Superstitions lingering in 1868,” Folklore Record, i. (1878) p. 44.

[641] A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube,² p. 330, § 526; F. Panzer, Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie, ii. 307; E. Krause, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xv. (1883) p. 79; J. Vonbun, Volkssagen aus Vorarlberg, p. 67; J. W. Wolf, Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie, i. p. 208, §§ 37, 39; G. Lammert, Volksmedizin und medizinischer Aberglaube in Bayern, p. 128; H. Prahn, “Glaube und Brauch in der Mark Brandenburg,” Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde, i. (1891) p. 193; H. Raff, “Aberglaube in Bayern,” ibid. viii. (1898) p. 400; R. Andree, Braunschweiger Volkskunde (Brunswick, 1896), p. 213. Compare J. V. Grohmann, Aberglauben und Gebräuche aus Böhmen und Mähren, p. 169, § 1197.

[642] F. S. Krauss, Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven, p. 546.

[643] S. Weissenberg, “Kinderfreud und -leid bei den südrussischen Juden,” Globus, lxxxiii. (1903) p. 317.