[1328] See for examples E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture,² ii. 131 sq.
[1329] Pausanias, ii. 24. 1. In 1902 the site of the temple was identified by means of inscriptions which mention the oracle. See Berliner philologische Wochenschrift, April 11, 1903, coll. 478 sq.
[1330] Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxviii. 147. Pausanias (vii. 25. 13) mentions the draught of bull’s blood as an ordeal to test the chastity of the priestess. Doubtless it was thought to serve both purposes.
[1331] Bishop R. Caldwell, “On Demonolatry in Southern India,” Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, i. 101 sq. For a description of a similar rite performed at Periepatam in southern India see Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, Nouvelle Edition, x. 313 sq. In this latter case the performer was a woman, and the animal whose hot blood she drank was a pig.
[1332] E. Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, iv. 187.
[1333] J. G. F. Riedel, “De Minahasa in 1825,” Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde, xviii. 517 sq. Compare “De godsdienst en godsdienst-plegtigheden der Alfoeren in de Menhassa op het eiland Celebes,” Tijdschrift van Nederlandsch Indië, 1849, dl. ii. p. 395; N. Graafland, De Minahassa, i. 122; J. Dumont D’Urville, Voyage autour du monde et à la recherche de La Perouse, v. 443.
[1334] F. J. Mone, Geschichte des Heidenthums im nördlichen Europa (Leipsic and Darmstadt, 1822–23), i. 188.
[1335] J. Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh (Calcutta, 1880), p. 96. For other instances of priests or representatives of the deity drinking the warm blood of the victim, compare H. A. Oldfield, Sketches from Nipal (London, 1880), ii. 296 sq.; Asiatic Researches, iv. pp. 40, 41, 50, 52 (8vo ed.); Paul Soleillet, L’Afrique Occidentale (Paris, 1877), pp. 123 sq. To snuff up the savour of the sacrifice was similarly supposed to produce inspiration (Tertullian, Apologet. 23).
[1336] C. F. Oldham, “The Nagas,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1901 (London, 1901), pp. 463, 465 sq., 467, 470 sq. The Takhas worship the cobra, and Mr. Oldham believes them to be descended from the Nagas of the Mahabharata.
[1337] Maimonides, quoted by D. Chwolsohn, Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus (St. Petersburg, 1856), ii. 480 sq.