[1170] Homer, Odyssey, x. 19 sqq. It is said that Perdoytus, the Lithuanian Aeolus, keeps the winds enclosed in a leathern bag; when they escape from it he pursues them, beats them, and shuts them up again. See E. Veckenstedt, Die Mythen, Sagen und Legenden der Zamaiten (Litauer), i. 153. The statements of this writer, however, are to be received with caution.
[1171] J. Chalmers, Pioneering in New Guinea, p. 177.
[1172] Lieut. Herold, in Mitteilungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, v. (1892) pp. 144 sq.; H. Klose, Togo unter deutscher Flagge (Berlin, 1899), p. 189.
[1173] Rev. J. Macdonald, Religion and Myth (London, 1893), p. 7.
[1174] Fr. Boas, “The Central Eskimo,” Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1888), p. 593.
[1175] Arctic Papers for the Expedition of 1875 (Royal Geographical Society), p. 274.
[1176] J. Murdoch, “Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition,” Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1892), pp. 432 sq.
[1177] M. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, p. 249 (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xlii.); W. Caland, Altindisches Zauberritual, p. 128.
[1178] Father Livinhac, in Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, liii. (1881) p. 209.
[1179] J. Perham, “Sea Dyak Religion,” Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 10 (December 1882), pp. 241 sq.; H. Ling Roth, The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, i. 201; A. W. Nieuwenhuis, In Centraal Borneo (Leyden, 1900), ii. 180 sq. The people of Samarcand used to beat drums and dance in the eleventh month to demand cold weather, and they threw water on one another. See E. Chavannes, Les Tou-Kiue (Turcs) Occidentaux (St. Petersburg, 1903), p. 135.