[744] H. Pröhle, Harzbilder (Leipsic, 1855), p. 82.

[745] J. W. Wolf, Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie, i. p. 225, § 282.

[746] Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern, iv. 1, p. 223. A further recommendation is to stroke the wound or the instrument with a twig of an ash-tree and then keep the twig in a dark place.

[747] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 250.

[748] F. Panzer, Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie, ii. 302; W. Kolbe, Hessische Volks- Sitten und Gebräuche im Lichte der heidnischen Vorzeit (Marburg, 1888), p. 87.

[749] M. J. Erdweg, “Die Bewohner der Insel Tumleo, Berlinhafen, Deutsch-Neu-Guinea,” Mittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, xxxii. (1902) p. 287.

[750] M. J. Erdweg, loc. cit.

[751] B. Hagen, Unter den Papua’s (Wiesbaden, 1899), p. 269.

[752] A. W. Howitt, “On Australian Medicine Men,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xvi. (1887) pp. 28 sq.; id., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 363–365.

[753] B. T. Somerville, “Notes on some Islands of the New Hebrides,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiii. (1894) p. 19.