[707] Gen. A. Pitt-Rivers, Excavations in Cranborne Chase, II. 1888, pp. 34, 42, 252, 258.
[708] Pitt-Rivers, op. cit. p. 4.
[709] Pliny, Nat. Hist., L. xxxvi. cc. 17, 28.
[710] Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1.
[711] S. Baring-Gould, The Deserts of Southern France, 1894, I. p. 207. See also a valuable essay in J. G. Frazer’s Psyche’s Task, ... the Growth of Superstition, 1909, pp. 52-81.
[712] S. Baring-Gould, op. cit. p. 207. Cf. methods described by Leo Frobenius, Childhood of Man, ed. A. H. Keane, 1909, pp. 158-63; E. B. Tylor, Anthropology, 2nd edition 1889, p. 237. Cf. E. S. Hartland, at Brit. Assoc. Meeting, 1910 (Nature, LXXXV. p. 24).
[713] Herodotus, l. IV. (Melpomene), c. 73. Cf. Translation in Isaac Taylor’s edition, 1829, p. 297.
[714] Canon G. Rawlinson, Hist. of Herodotus, 4th edition, 1880, III. pp. 63-4. Rawlinson argues (III. pp. 198-200) that the Scythians were not Slavs, Celts, or Teutons, but a distinct race, and (III. pp. 201-8) that Scythia did not extend so far West as to touch the present Germany.
[715] J. Douglas, Nenia Britannica, 1793, p. 10. Cf. Pitt-Rivers, Excav. in Cranborne Chase, II. pp. 29, 33; IV. pp. 148-157, 164-5.
[716] W. M. Wylie, Fairford Graves, 1852, pp. 24-5. Pitt-Rivers records the finding of worn pebbles in a barrow: Excav. in Cranborne Chase, II. p. 33.