[122] Réville, Hibbert Lectures, p. 194.
[123] Frazer, GB, Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, I. 307, 309 ff. (1912). The supremely important rôle assigned to the sacred dance among the natives of Australia is well known; see Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, pp. 32, 106, 139 ff., 173, and the illustrations on p. 186 (1914); Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-east Australia, pp. 330, 416 (1904); Brough Smith, The Aborigines of Victoria, I. 166 ff. (1878), cp. Reinach, Orpheus, pp. 228 f.
[124] GB, Spirits of the Corn ..., I. 311.
[125] See the whole of the Note on “The Pleiades in Primitive Calendars,” GB, Spirits of the Corn ..., I. 307-319.
[126] W. Schneider, Die Religion der Afrikanischen Naturvölker, p. 100 (1891).
[127] Fritsch, Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika’s, p. 91 (1872).
[128] Fritsch, op. cit. p. 352.
[129] W. Schneider, op. cit. pp. 89 f.
[130] For other dances in imitation of animals, see Ling Roth, The Aborigines of Tasmania, pp. 138 ff. (1899).
[131] Cp. the personating of spirits or legendary animals among the N. American Indians, Frazer, GB, The Scapegoat, p. 375.