The Play of Man

by Karl Groos

[465] O. Beauregard, La caricature il y a quatre mille ans. Bulletin de La Soc. de l’Anthropol. de Paris, 1889.

[466] Marcano, Caricature précolombienne des Cerritos. Bulletin Soc. de l’Anthropol. de Paris, 1889.

[467] Deutsches Kinderlied und Kinderspiel, liv.

[468] Grosse, p. 235.

[469] F. M. Bohme, pp. 271, 277.

[470] See E. H. Meyer, Deutsche Volkskunde, Strassburg, 1898, p. 337: “This practice is very ancient, and seems to have given their names to some German tribes.”

[471] Ibid.

[472] To cover all the ground, the teasing application of wit would have to be included here. It is taken up and treated briefly in the next section.

[473] Carl Sittl, Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer, Leipsic, 1890, p. 90.

[474] Ibid.