[455] Becq de Fouquières, p. 273.
[456] W. Joest, Ethnographisches und Verwandtes aus Guayana, supplement to vol. v, Intern. Arch. für Ethnographie (1892), p. 49.
[457] Gutsmuth, op. cit., p. 25.
[458] Becq de Fouquières, p. 2B1.
[459] Sixth edition, Leipsic, 1896, pp. 321–323. This recalls tales of Roman emperors who sat before their guests dishes containing the heads of their own wives and children. See Hall and Allin, loc. cit., p. 22.
[460] F. Pollock, An Infant’s Progress in Language, Mind, vol. iii (1878).
[461] Sigismund, p. 151. See Burk, op. cit., p. 356.
[462] L. Wagner, Manners, Customs, and Observances, p. 255.
[463] See on this subject Perez, Les trois premières années, p. 320.
[464] Hall and Allin’s Psychology of Tickling, Laughing, and the Comic, p. 21.