[245] Put forward by Tylor (Prim. Cult., vol. ii., chaps. xii. and xvii.), the ideas which I here formulate have been developed by L. Marillier (“Survivance de l’âme:” Paris, 1894, Pub. École prat. Hautes Études, sect. Sc. relig.), and combated by Steinmetz (Arch. für Anthro., vol. xxiv., p. 577), but the arguments of the latter do not seem to me convincing. He compares, for example, the difference of the destiny of the noble and the common Polynesians in the other world to distributive justice.
[246] Hyades and Deniker, loc. cit., p. 254.
[247] E. Tylor, loc. cit., vol. ii., p. 199.
[248] See A. Lang, Culture and Myth; and his Modern Mythology, London, 1897.
[249] Legends, traditional tales, proverbs, etc., are simplified myths, with the poetic element predominating. The study of them forms a special branch of ethnology called “Folk-lore.”
[250] Hyades and Deniker, loc. cit., p. 316.
[251] Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria, vol. ii., p. 3, London, 1878; Curr, The Australian Race, Melbourne-London, 1886–87, 4 vols. passim.
[252] R. Schramm, “Jahrform, etc.,” Mittheil. der Geogr. Gesell., vol. xxvii., 1884, p. 481, Vienna.
[253] O. Mason, Origins of Invention, pp. 71 and 116.
[254] Brough Smyth, loc. cit., vol. i., p. 284.