[673] Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, vol. 3, p. 1233.
[674] Black, Folk-Medicine, London, 1883, p. 114.
[675] Herrera, dec. 6, lib. 8, cap. 1, p. 171.
[676] Ibid., dec. 7, lib. 4, cap. 5, p. 70.
[677] Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, vol. 1, p. 351. See also previous references to the use of such cords by the Australians.
[678] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 28, cap. 27.
[679] Highlands of Æthiopia, vol. 1, p. 247.
[680] Through the Dark Continent, vol. 1, p. 398.
[681] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 28, cap. 11.
[682] Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. 5, pp. 295, 390.