[414] See Mémoire sur Fou-sang, by M. le Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys. (Paris, 1876.)
[415] Op. cit. p. 329.
[416] The Middle Kingdom (1883 ed.), vol. i. p. 819.
[417] Tylor, op. cit. vol. i. pp. 333-4. The superstition exists throughout Indo-China and the Malay Peninsula. See, for instance, Skeat's Malay Magic, pp. 11-13.
[418] Rev. J. Macgowan, op. cit. p. 67.
[419] Tylor, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 167.
[420] Rev. J. Macgowan, op. cit. pp. 92-3.