[950] Palladius, De re rustica, iv. 9; Pliny, Nat. Hist. xix. 120.
[951] Theophrastus, Historia plantarum ix. 8. 8.
[952] Lactantius, Divin. Institut. i. 21; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, ii. 5. 11. 8; Philostratus, Imagines, ii. 24; Conon, in Photius, Bibliotheca, p. 132, ed. Bekker. Lactantius speaks of the sacrifice of a pair of oxen, Philostratus of the sacrifice of a single ox.
[953] “Die Pschawen und Chewsurier im Kaukasus,” Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde, N.F. ii. (1857) p. 75.
[954] M. Abeghian, Der armenische Volksglaube (Leipsic, 1899), p. 93.
[955] J. Reinegg, Beschreibung des Kaukasus, ii. (Hildesheim and St. Petersburg, 1797), p. 114. Among the Abchases of the Western Caucasus girls make rain by driving an ass into a river, placing a puppet dressed as a woman on a raft, and letting the raft float down stream. See N. von Seidlitz, “Die Abchasen,” Globus, lxvi. (1894) pp. 75 sq.
[956] W. Mannhardt, Baumkultus, p. 553; E. Gerard, The Land beyond the Forest, ii. 40.
[957] Panjab Notes and Queries, iii. pp. 41, 115, §§ 173, 513.
[958] North Indian Notes and Queries, i. p. 210, § 1161.
[959] Sarat Chandra Mitra, “On the Har Paraurī, or the Behari Women’s Ceremony for producing Rain,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, N.S. xxix. (1897) pp. 471–484; id., in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, iv. No. 7 (1898), pp. 384–388.