[45] The best authority on Xipe’s costume is Sahagun (Mexican MS.). [↑]
[46] Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, pp. 417 ff. [↑]
[47] Sahagun, bk. v, c. xiii. [↑]
[48] Werenfels, Dissertation upon Superstition, p. 6 (London, 1748). Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States, vol. ii, pp. 719 ff. [↑]
[49] Roscher, Über Selene und verwandtes (Leipzig, 1890), pp. 49 ff. [↑]
[50] Pliny, Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 223; Payne, Hist. New World, vol. i, p. 495. [↑]
[51] Or calpulli, a muster-place at several festivals. [↑]
[52] “They who seize the head,” alluding to the custom of taking the victims by the hair. [↑]
[53] Sahagun states that the “hair” of the uauantin was kept as a trophy. This seems to me analogous to the North American Indian custom of scalping, which is sometimes spoken of as “losing one’s hair,” a phrase which, through its use among American border fighters, has passed into slang. [↑]
[54] Tezcatlipocâ took the form of a coyote and lay in wait for travellers. Sahagun, bk. v, c. xiii. [↑]