[794] Boecler-Kreutzwald, Der Ehsten abergläubische Gebräuche, Weisen und Gewohnheiten, pp. 121 sq.
[795] J. Batchelor, The Ainu and their Folklore (London, 1901), p. 516.
[796] H. Callaway, The Religious System of the Amazulu, part iii. pp. 345 sq.
[797] A. W. Howitt, “On Australian Medicine Men,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xvi. (1887) pp. 26 sq.; id., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, p. 366.
[798] R. Brough Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, i. 475.
[799] A. C. Haddon, Head-hunters (London, 1901), p. 202.
[800] M. J. Erdweg, “Die Bewohner der Insel Tumleo, Berlinhafen, Deutsch-Neu-Guinea,” Mitteilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, xxxii. (1902) p. 287.
[801] K. Vetter, Komm herüber und hilf uns! oder die Arbeit der Neuen Dettelsauer Mission, Heft iii. (Barmen, 1898) p. 10.
[802] Jamblichus, Adhortatio ad philosophiam, 21; Plutarch, Quaest. conviv. viii. 7; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. v. 5, p. 661, ed. Potter. Compare Diogenes Laertius, Vit. philos. viii. 1. 17; Suidas, s.v. “Pythagoras.”
[803] For detailed proof of this I may refer to my article, “Some popular Superstitions of the Ancients,” Folklore, i. (1890) pp. 147 sqq.