[724] A. Kuhn, Märkische Sagen und Märchen (Berlin, 1843), pp. 379 sq.
[725] J. C. Atkinson, in County Folklore, ii. (London, 1901) p. 68.
[726] A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube,² § 305, p. 203; H. Ploss, Das Kind,² i. 12 sqq.
[727] J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,⁴ ii. 728, note 1. As to the East Indian belief see above, pp. [187] sq.
[728] M. Bartels, “Islandischer Brauch und Volksglaube in Bezug auf die Nachkommenschaft,” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xxxii. (1900) pp. 70 sq.
[729] Aelius Lampridius, Antoninus Diadumenus, 4; J. Grimm, loc. cit.; H. Ploss, Das Kind,² i. pp. 13, 14.
[730] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 135.
[731] J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,⁴ ii. 728 sq., iii. 266 sq.; M. Bartels, op. cit. p. 70. Grimm speaks as if it were only the caul which became a fylgia. I follow Dr. Bartels.
[732] Meantime I may refer to The Golden Bough, Second Edition, iii. 350 sqq. For other superstitions concerning the afterbirth and navel-string see H. Ploss, Das Kind,² i. 15 sqq., ii. 198 sq. The connexion of these parts of the body with the idea of the external soul has already been indicated by Mr. E. Crawley (The Mystic Rose, London, 1902, p. 119).
[733] Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxviii. 36.