[841] A. Erman, Ägypten und ägyptisches Leben im Altertum, p. 471.
[842] C. Fossey, La Magie Assyrienne (Paris, 1902), pp. 123, 125.
[843] C. Fossey, op. cit. pp. 137–139. For the incident of the magical disappearance and reappearance of the garment, see P. Jensen, Assyrisch-Babylonische Mythen und Epen (Berlin, 1900), p. 23; R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature (New York, 1901), p. 291.
[844] H. Oldenberg, Die Religion des Veda, pp. 66–68, 514–517.
[845] Fr. Kauffmann, Balder, Mythus und Sage (Strasburg, 1902), pp. 177–203. Compare J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,⁴ ii. 1024–1026.
[846] G. Vigfusson and F. York Powell, Corpus Poeticum Boreale, i. 24 sqq.
CHAPTER V—The Magical Control of the Weather
[847] See above, pp. [214] sq.
[848] W. Mannhardt, Antike Wald- und Feldkulte, p. 342, note. The heathen Swedes appear to have mimicked thunder, perhaps as a rain-charm, by means of large bronze hammers, which they called Thor’s hammers. See Saxo Grammaticus, Historia Danica, lib. xiii. p. 630, ed. P. E. Müller; Olaus Magnus, Historia, iii. 8.
[849] K. v. Bruchhausen, in Globus, lxxvi. (1899) p. 253. There seem to be two villages in Wallachia that bear the name of Ploska. The reference may be to one of them.