[35] Maspero, loc. cit., pp. 298-299.
[36] Amélie Bosquet, La Normandie romanesque et merveilleuse (Paris et Rouen, 1845), p. 308.
[37] Loc. cit. i., pp. 75-78.
[38] A widespread opinion ascribes the failures of the magician to a rival or to the counter-influence of some evil spirit.
‘If a man died in spite of the medicine-man, they [the Chepara of South-East Africa] said it was Wulle, an evil being, that killed him.’—Howitt, loc. cit., p. 385.
[39] Chap. iii.
[40] Ibid., p. 59.
[41] R. R. Marett, ‘From Spell to Prayer,’ Folk-Lore, xv. (1904), pp. 132-165.
[42] Loc. cit., pp. 61-62. In the third volume (pp. 458-461), a change seems to have taken place in the author’s opinion. What it amounts to, I cannot exactly make out.
[43] The Psychology of the Emotions, p. 309.