[980] Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. p. 311.
[981] G. B. Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, p. 262.
[982] J. Teit, “The Thompson Indians,” p. 374 (Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, vol. i. part iv.).
[983] E. W. Nelson, “The Eskimo about Bering Strait,” Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, part i. (Washington, 1899) p. 446.
[984] J. Batchelor, The Ainu and their Folklore (London, 1901), p. 334.
[985] (Sir) J. G. Scott, Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, part ii. vol. ii. (Rangoon, 1901) p. 280.
[986] T. C. Hodson, “The Native Tribes of Manipur,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxxi. (1901) p. 308.
[987] H. Oldenberg, Die Religion des Veda, p. 507.
[988] Fr. A. Jaussen, “Coutumes arabes,” Revue Biblique, April 1903, p. 248. Elsewhere the same writer describes this ceremony as a mode of putting a stop to cholera. See his Coutumes des Arabes au pays de Moab (Paris, 1908), p. 362. To pass between the pieces of a sacrificial victim is a form of oath (Genesis xv. 9 sqq.; Jeremiah xxxiv. 18; Dictys Cretensis, Bell. Trojan. i. 15; R. Moffat, Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa, p. 278) or of purification (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, 111; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, iii. 13. 7; Livy, xl. 6; E. Casalis, The Basutos, p. 256; S. Krascheninnikow, Beschreibung des Landes Kamtschatka, pp. 277 sq.). Compare my note on Pausanias, iii. 20. 9.
[989] B. F. Matthes, “Over de âdá’s of gewoonten der Makassaren en Boegineezen,” Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Letterkunde, Derde Reeks, ii. (Amsterdam, 1885) p. 169.