[754] Theocritus, Id. ii. 53 sq. Similarly the witch in Virgil (Eclog. viii. 92 sqq.) buries under her threshold certain personal relics (exuviae) which her lover had left behind.
[755] Tettau und Temme, Volkssagen Ostpreussens, Litthauens und Westpreussens (Berlin, 1837), pp. 283 sq. For more evidence of the same sort see E. S. Hartland, Legend of Perseus, ii. 86 sqq.
[756] E. Meier, Deutsche Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Schwaben, pp. 245 sq.; A. Kuhn, Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen, ii. 192; id., Die Herabkunft des Feuers,² pp. 200 sq.; W. Mannhardt, Die Götterwelt der deutschen und nordischen Völker, i. 203 note. Compare Montanus, Die deutsche Volksfeste, Volksbräuche und deutscher Volksglaube, p. 117.
[757] Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 250; A. W. Howitt, “On Australian Medicine Men,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xvi. (1887) pp. 26 sq.; id., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 366 sq. According to one account a cross should be made in the footprint with a piece of quartz, and round the footprint thus marked the bones of kangaroos should be stuck in the ground. See R. Brough Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, i. 476 sq. These and many of the following examples were cited by me in Folklore, i. (1890) pp. 157 sqq. For more instances of the same sort see E. S. Hartland, The Legend of Perseus, ii. (London, 1895) 78–83.
[758] Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 541.
[759] Id., Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 340 sq.
[760] R. Parkinson, Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee (Stuttgart, 1907), p. 605.
[761] Elsdon Best, “Spiritual Concepts of the Maori,” Journal of the Polynesian Society, ix. (1900) p. 196.
[762] Basil C. Thomson, Savage Island (London, 1902), p. 97.
[763] M. J. van Baarda, “Fabelen, Verhalen en Overleveringen der Galelareezen,” Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, xlv. (1895) p. 512.