[1010] North Indian Notes and Queries, iii. p. 134, § 285; W. Crooke, Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (Westminster, 1896), i. 73.
[1011] Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, lxxii., part 3, Anthropology (Calcutta, 1904), p. 39.
[1012] E. Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, iii. 245.
[1013] E. Thurston, op. cit. iv. 387.
[1014] M. Bloomfield, “On the ‘Frog-hymn,’ Rig Veda, vii. 103,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, xvii. (1896) pp. 173–179.
[1015] A. L. Waddell, “Frog-Worship among the Newars,” The Indian Antiquary, xxii. (1893) pp. 292–294. The title Bhûmînâtha, “Lord or Protector of the Soil,” is specially reserved for the frog. The title Paremêsvara is given to all the Newar divinities.
[1016] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edition, s.v. “Frog,” ix. 796. For an instance of a frog thus caught in a drought and made to disgorge its hoard of water, see E. Aymonier, Voyage dans le Laos (Paris, 1895–1897), ii. 284 sq.
[1017] J. Macdonald, “Manners, Customs, Superstitions, and Religions of South African Tribes,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xix. (1890) p. 295.
[1018] H. von Wlislocki, Volksglaube und religiöser Brauch der Zigenner (Münster i. W., 1891), pp. 64 sq.
[1019] W. Crooke, Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (Westminster, 1896), i. 76.