[713] Ibid.
[714] Black, Folk-Medicine, p. 111.
[715] Brand, Pop. Ant., vol. 3, pp. 288, 324.
[716] This fact is stated by Torquemada, Monarchia Indiana, lib. 10, cap. 33, and by Gomara, Hist. of the Conq. of Mexico, p. 446; see also Diego Duran, lib. 1, cap. 20, p. 226.
[717] Herrera, dec. 3, lib. 2, p. 67.
[718] John Gilmary Shea, The Catholic Church in Colonial Days, p. 472.
[719] Diego Duran, vol. 3, cap. 4, p. 217.
[720] Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1827, vol. 1, p. 337.
[721] Picart, Cérémonies et Coûtumes, etc., Amsterdam, 1729, vol. 5, p. 50.
[722] Lady of the Lake, canto 3, stanza 4, Sir Rhoderick Dhu, summoning Clan Alpine against the king.