[491] Raffles, History of Java, i. pp. 375, 376. For a similar reasoning cf. Skeat, Malay Magic, pp. 23, 24.
[492] Bock, Temples and Elephants, p. 245.
[493] Rochas, L’extériorisation de la sensibilité, p, 101.
[494] Cf. e.g. Gooneratne in Journ. Ceylon Branch R. Asiatic Soc. 1865, 1866, p. 71 (Demonology in Ceylon); Skeat, Malay Magic, pp. 45, 571. The same combination of the two classes of magic, as applied to a medical cure, is instanced by Walhouse in Journ. Anthr. Inst. iv. p. 372 (Account of a leaf-wearing tribe).
[495] Cf. Ellis, Yoruba Peoples, pp. 99, 278; Tshi Peoples, pp. 98, 101, 176, 195.
[496] Schurtz in Abhandlungen d. Sächs. Ges. d. Wissensch. Ph. Cl. xv. p. 52, quoting De Clercq en Schmeltz, Nieuw Guinea, p. 185. For an interesting analogy see De Landa, Relation des causes de Yucatan, p. 199.
[497] Schurtz, l.c. p. 47. Cf. with regard to other means of animating idols by contact, Brenner, Kannibalen Sumatras, pp. 225, 226; Pleyte Wzn in Globus, lx. p. 289 (Religiöse Anschaungen der Bataks).
[498] Matthews, The Mountain Chant, in Rep. Bur. Ethn. 1883, 1884, especially pp. 426, 427.
[499] Cf. the Kalmuck tales quoted in Stoll, Suggestion und Hypnotismus, p. 31.
[500] Cf. Lucretius, De rerum natura, iv. vv. 1-1035.