[1197] Ibid. p. 1619.
[1198] L’Abbé V. Dufour, Une Question Historique, 1868, translated from Keysler’s Antiquitates, p. 65.
[1199] Dufour, op. cit. p. 66.
[1200] Ibid. p. 67.
[1201] Notes and Queries, 10th Ser., X. 1908, p. 245.
[1202] A. de Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, 1872, I. pp. 283-357.
[1203] Doigneau, Nos Ancêtres Primitifs, p. 127. Dr J. G. Frazer, Golden Bough, II. pp. 64-5, refers to the Roman custom, at the October chariot-race, of cutting off the tail of the right-hand horse of the victorious team, and states that this was done to ensure a good crop: the horse represented the corn spirit.
[1204] Herodotus, Hist., l. II. c. 39. For superstitions respecting the sanctity of the human head, see Golden Bough, I. pp. 187-93.
[1205] Teut. Myth., IV. p. 1483.
[1206] Ibid. II. p. 661.