[734] R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (Oxford, 1891), p. 310.
[735] Fr. Boas, “The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians,” Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895, p. 440.
[736] Fr. Boas, in Sixth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, p. 25 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for 1890).
[737] A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 667.
[738] Francis Bacon, Natural History, cent. x. § 998. Compare J. Brand Popular Antiquities, iii. 305, quoting Werenfels. In Dryden’s play The Tempest (Act v. Scene 1) Ariel directs Prospero to anoint the sword which wounded Hippolito and to wrap it up close from the air. See Dryden’s Works, ed. Scott, vol. iii. p. 191 (first edition).
[739] W. W. Groome, “Suffolk Leechcraft,” Folklore, vi. (1895) p. 126. Compare County Folklore: Suffolk, edited by Lady E. C. Gurdon, pp. 25 sq. A like belief and practice occur in Sussex (C. Latham, “West Sussex Superstitions,” Folklore Record, i. 43 sq.). See further E. S. Hartland, The Legend of Perseus, ii. 169–172.
[740] “Death from Lockjaw at Norwich,” The Peoples Weekly Journal for Norfolk, July 19, 1902, p. 8.
[741] F. N. Webb, in Folk-lore, xvi. (1905) p. 337.
[742] C. Partridge, Cross River Natives (London, 1905), p. 295.
[743] F. Panzer, Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie, ii. 305, compare 277.