80 _Dictionnaire Infernal_, par J. Collin de Plancy. Paris, 1863, p.
592.
81 _The Chinese Reader's Manual_, by W. F. Mayers. Shanghai,
1874, p. 219.
82 _The Chinese Readers Manual_, p. 95.
83 _Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or, Hottentot Fables and
Tales_ by W. H. J. Bleek. London, 1864, p. 72.
84 _A Brief Account of Bushman Folk-Lore_, by Dr. Bleek. Cape
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85 _Outlines of Physiology, Human and Comparative_, by John
Marshall, F.R.S. London, 1867, ii. 625.
86 _Lectures on the Native Regions of Mexico and Peru_, by
Albert Reville, D.D. London, 1884, p. 8.
87 _History of the Conquest of Mexico_, by William H. Prescott.
London, 1854, p. 50.
88 _The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America_, by
Hubert Howe Bancroft. New York, 1875, iii. 62.
89 _Zoological Mythology; or, the Legends of Animals_, by
Angelo de Gubernatis. London, 1872, ii. 80.
90 _Ibid._, ii. 76.
91 _Report on the Indian Tribes Inhabiting the Country in the
Vicinity of the 49th Parallel of North Latitude_, by Capt. Wilson.
Trans. of Ethnolog. Society of London, 1866. New Series, iv. 304.
92 _The Races of Mankind_, by Robert Brown, M.A., Ph.D.
London, 1873-76, i. 148.
93 Dennys' _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 117.
94 _The Middle Kingdom_, by S. Wells Williams, LL.D. New
York, 1883, ii. 74.
95 _The Disowned_, by the Right Hon. Lord Lytton, chap. lxii.
96 _Fiji and the Fijians_, by Thomas Williams. London, 1858, i.
205.
97 _Primitive Culture_, i. 321.
98 _On the Aborigines of Southern Australia_, by W. E.
Stanbridge, of Wombat, Victoria. Transactions of Ethnolog. Society
of London, 1861, p. 301.
99 _A Discovery of a New World_, by John Wilkins, Bishop of
Chester. London, 1684, p. 77.
100 _A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean_, by Capt. James Cook,
F.R.S., and Capt. James King, LL.D., F.R.S. London, 1784, ii. 167.
101 _Polynesian Researches during a Residence of nearly Eight
Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands_, by William Ellis.
London, 1833, iii. 171.
102 _Prehistoric Times_, by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., D.C.L.
London, 1878, p. 440.
103 _Primitive Culture_, i. 318.
104 _See_ Kalisch on _Genesis_. London, 1858, p. 70.
105 _Sermons_, by the Rev. W. Morley Punshon, LL.D. Second
Series. London, 1884, p. 376.
106 _Outlines of the History of Religion_, by C. P. Tiele. Trans. by
J. E. Carpenter. London, 1877, p. 8.
107 _The Myths of the New World_, by Daniel G. Brinton, A.M.,
M.D. New York, 1868, p. 131.
108 _The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia_. By Sven Nilsson
(Lubbock's edit.). London, 1868, p. 206.
109 _Lectures on the Science of Language_. London, 1880, i. 6.
110 _Teutonic Mythology_, iii. 704.
111 _The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_.
London, 1878, iii. 39.
112 _Ibid._, iii. 165.
113 _The Mythology of the Aryan Nations_. London, 1882, note to
p. 372.
114 _Russian Folk-Lore_, by W. R. S. Ralston, M.A. London,
1873, p. 176.
115 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, i. 260.
116 _A System of Biblical Psychology_, by Franz Delitzsch, D.D.,
translated by the Rev. R. E. Wallis, Ph.D. Edinburgh, 1875, p. 124.
117 _The Book of Isaiah_ liv. 4-6, and lxii. 4.
118 _English Grammar, Historical and Analytical_, by Joseph
Gostwick. London, 1878, pp. 67-72.
119 _Hibbert Lectures_ for 1878, p. 190.
120 Bayle's _Dictionary_, i. 113.
121 Vide Tylor's _Anthropology_. London, 1881, p. 149.
122 _Language and Languages_, by the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar,
D.D., F.R.S. London, 1878, p. 181.
123 _Ibid._, p. 182. Coleridge also was in error on this question.
See his _Table Talk_, under date May 7th, 1830.
124 _Hebrew and Christian Records_, by the Rev. Dr. Giles.
London, 1877, i. 366.
125 _Biblical Psychology_, p. 79.
126 _Antitheism_, by R. H. Sandys, M.A. London, 1883, p. 32.
127 _The Origin and Development of Religious Belief_. London,
1878, i. 187.
128 _The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson_. London, 1882, i. 274.
129 _Jesus Christ: His Times, Life, and Work_, by E. de Pressense.
London, 1866, p. 38.
130 _Sketches of the History of Man_, by the Hon. Henry Home of
Kames. Edinburgh, 1813, iii. 364.
131 _Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient names_, by Thomas
Inman. London, 1872, ii. 325.
132 _Mythology among the Hebrews_, by Ignaz Goldziher, Ph.D.
London, 877, p. 76.
133 _Primitive Culture_, ii. 271.
134 _Nineveh and its Remains_, by Austen Henry Layard, M.P.
London, ii. 446.
135 Inman's _Ancient Faiths_, i. 93.
136 _The Unicorn: a Mythological Investigation_, by Robert
Brown, F.S.A. London, 1881, p. 34.
137 _The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World_,
by George Rawlinson, M.A. London, 1871, i. 56.
138 _Ibid._, vol. i. p. 123.
139 _Ibid._, vol. i. note to p. 124.
140 Brown's _Unicorn_, p. 34.
141 _Mythology among the Hebrews_, p. 158,
142 _Ibid._, 159.
143 _Ibid._, 160.
144 _Jewish History and Politics_, by Sir Edward Strachey, Bart.
London, 1874, p. 256.
145 _Phoenicia_, by John Kenrick, M.A. London, 1855, p. 301.
146 _Dictionary of the Bible_, edited by William Smith, LL.D. Art.
ASHTORETH.
147 _Dictionary of the Scottish Language_, iii. 299.
148 On _Isaiah_. London, 1824, ii. 374.
149 _The Antiquities of Israel_, by Heinrich Ewald (trans. by
Solly).London, 1876, p. 341.
150 _The Bampton Lectures for 1876_, by William Alexander,
D.D., D.C.L. London, 1878, p. 378.
151 _Rivers of Life, showing the Evolution of Faiths_, by
Major-General J. G. R. Forlong. London, 1883, ii. 62.
152 _Outlines of the History of Religion_, by C. p. Tiele, p. 63.
153 _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, p. 194.
154 _The Philosophy of History_, by Frederick von Schlegel,
translated by J. B. Robertson. London, 1846, p. 325.
155 _El-Koran; or, The Koran_, translated from the Arabic by J. M.
Rodwell, M.A. London, 1876, p. 199.
156 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, ii. 274.
157 _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_. London, 1862, p. 76.
158 _The Zend-Avesta_, translated by James Darmesteter. Oxford,
1883, Part ii., p. 90.
159 _The Philosophy of History_, by G. W. F. Hegel, translated by
J. Sibree, M.A. London, 1861, p. 186.
160a _The Highlands of Central India_, by Captain J. Forsyth.
London, 1871, p. 146.
160b _Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of
Asia_, by John Bell of Antermony. Glasgow, 1763, i. 230.
161 _The Early Races of Scotland_, by Forbes Leslie. Edinburgh,
1866, i. 138.
162 Kames' _History of Man_, iii. 299.
163 _The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of
Man_, by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D.
London, 1882, p. 315.
164 _History Of Man_, iii. 366.
165 _The Religions of China_, by James Legge. London, 1880, p.
12.
166 _Ibid._, pp. 44-46.
167 _Religion in China_, by Joseph Edkins, D.D. London, 1878, p.
60.
168 _A Translation of the Confucian Yih King_, by the Rev. Canon
McClatchie, M.A. Shanghai, 1876, p. 386.
169 _Ibid._, p. 388.
170 _Ibid._, p. 449.
171 _The Religions of China_, p. 170.
172 _Religion in China_, p. 105.
173 _Handbook for the Student of Chinese Buddhism_, by Rev. E.
J. Eitel, London. 1870, p. 107.
174 _Hulsean Lectures for 1870_, p. 203.
175 _Hibbert Lectures on Indian Buddhism_, by T. W. Rhys
Davids. London, 1881, p. 231.
176 _A View of China for Philological Purposes_, by the Rev. R.
Morrison. Macao, 1817, p. 107.
177 Dennys' _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 28.
178 _Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years
1844-46_, by M. Huc. Translated by W. Hazlitt. London, i. 61.
179 _Social Life of the Chinese_, by Rev. Justus Doolittle. New
York, 1867, ii. 65.
180 _China: Its State and Prospects_, by W. H. Medhurst. London,
1838, p. 217.
181 _Ibid._, p. 188.
182 _Researches into the Physical History of Mankind_, by James
Cowles Prichard, M.D., F.R.S. London, 1844, iv. 496-7.
183 Tylor's _Anthropology_, p. 21.
184 _The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian_, Made
English by G. Booth. London, 1700, p. 21.
185 _History of Ancient Egypt_, by George Rawlinson, M.A.
London, 1881, i. 369.
186 _Records of the Past_, Edited by S. Birch, LL.D., D.C.L., etc.
London, vi. iii.
187 _Hibbert Lectures for 1879_, p. 116.
188 _Ibid._, p. 155.
189 _Ancient Egypt_, i. 373.
190 _Records of the Past_, iv. 53.
191 _Egypt's Place in Universal History_, by Christian C. J.
Bunsen, D.Ph., and D.C.L. Translated by C. H. Cottrell, M.A.
London, 1848, i. 395.
192 _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 237.
193 _On the Relations between Pasht, the Moon, and the Cat, in
Egypt_. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1878,
vol. vi. 3 16.
194 _Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years_
1768-73, by James Bruce, F.R.S. Edinburgh, 1813, vi. 343.
195 _Ibid._, iv. 36.
196 _A Voyage to Congo_, by Father Jerom Merolla da Sorrento.
Pinkerton's _Voyages and Travels_. London, 1814, vol. xvi. 273.
197 _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, May, 1884.
198 _Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa_, by Mungo Park,
Surgeon. London, 1779, vol. i. 271.
199 _Ibid._, i. 322.
200 _Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa_, by
David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. London, 1857, p. 235.
201 _The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope_, by Peter
Kolben, A.M. London, 1731, i. 96.
202 _The Poetical Works of Lord Byron_. London, 1876 (_Don
Juan_, Canto iii.), p. 636.
203 _The Iliad of Homer_. Translated by J. G. Cordery. London,
1871, ii. 183.
204 _A History of Greece_, by George Grote, F.R.S. London,
1872, i. 317.
205 _Vide Pausan_., L. x. c. 32, p. 880. Edit. Kuhnii, fol. Lips,
1696.
206 _History of Greece_, i. 317.
207 _The Iliad of Homer_, by Edward Earl of Derby. London,
1867, i. 190.
208 See _Roman Antiquities_, by Alexander Adam, LL.D.
London, 1825, pp. 251-60.
209 _Carmen Saeculare_, 35.
210 _Metam_., lib. xi. 657.
211 _The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated_, by William
Warburton, D. D. London, 1837, i. 316.
212 Jamieson's _Scottish Dictionary_, iii. 299.
213 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 704.
214 _Chaldaean Magic: Its Origin and Development_, by Francois
Lenormant. London, p. 249.
215 _Flammarion's Astronomical Myths_, p. 35.
216 Leslie's _Early Races of Scotland_, i. 113.
217 _Ibid._, i. 134.
218 _Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme_, by John Aubrey,
1686-7. Edited by James Britten, F.L.S. London, 1881, p. 83.
219 _Britannia_, by William Camden, translated by Edmund
Gibson, D.D. London, 1772, ii. 380.
220 _A General History of Ireland from the Earliest Accounts_, by
Mr. O'Halloran. London, 1778, i. 47.
221 _Ibid._, i. 113.
222 _Ibid._, i. 221.
223 _The Towers and Temples of Ancient Ireland_, by Marcus
Keane, M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1867, p. 59.
224 _The Keys of the Creeds_. London, 1875, p. 148.
225 A. S., in _Notes and Queries_ for Nov. 19, 1881, p. 407.
226 _History of the Missions of the United Brethren among the
Indians in North America_, by George Henry Loskiel. London,
1794, Part i. p. 40.
227 _Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the
North American Indians_, by George Catlin. London, 1876, ii. 242.
228 _Scenes and Studies of Savage Life_, by Gilbert Malcolm
Sproat. London, 1868, p. 206.
229 Brown's _Races of Mankind_, p. 142.
230 Lubbock's _Origin of Civilization_, p. 315.
231 See _Mexico To-day_, by Thomas Unett Brocklehurst.
London, 1883, p. 175.
232 Bancroft's _Races of the Pacific_, i. 587.
233 _Ibid._, iii. 112.
234 _Ibid._, iii. 187.
235 _Hibbert Lectures for 1884_, p. 45.
236 _American Antiquities and Researches into the Origin anti
History of the Red Race_, by Alexander W. Bradford. New York,
1843, p. 353.
237 _Travels in Brazil in the Years_ 1817-20, by Dr. Joh. Bapt. von
Spix and Dr. C. F. Phil. von Martius. London, 1824, ii. 243.
238 _An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of
Paraguay_, from the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer. London, 1822, ii.
65.
239 _The Royal Commentaries of Peru_, by the Inca Garcilasso de
la Vega. Translated by Sir Paul Rycaut, Knt. London, 1688, folio, p.
455.
240 _Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas_. Translated
from the Spanish MS. of Christoval de Molina, by Clements R.
Markham, C.B., F.R.S. London, 1873, p. 37.
241 _History of the Conquest of Peru_, by William H. Prescott.
London, 1878, p. 47.
242 _Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa among the
South Sea Islands_ in 1865, by Julius L. Brenchley, M.A., F.R.G.S.
London, 1873, p. 320.
243 _Polynesian Mythology_, by Sir George Grey, late Governor
in Chief of New Zealand. London, 1855, _Pref_. xiii.
244 Kenrick's _Phoenicia_, p. 303.
245 _Workes_ of John Baptista Van Helmont. London, 1644, p.
142.
246 Goldziher's _Hebrew Mythology_, Note to p. 206.
247 _Ibid._, p. 206.
248 Dr. Smith's _Bible Dictionary_, Article _Meni_, by William
A. Wright, M.A., ii. 323.
249 Goldziher's _Hebrew Mythology_, p. 160.
250 Gubernatis' _Zoological Mythology_, i. 18.
251 _Ibid._, ii. 375.
252 Mayers' _Chinese Reader's Manual_, p. 288.
253 _Japanese Fairy World_. Stories from the Wonder Lore of
Japan, by William Elliot Griffis. Schenectady, N. Y., 1880, p. 299.
254 Brown's _Unicorn_, p. 69.
255 Wilkinson's _Ancient Egyptians_, iii. 375.
256 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. Note to p. 719.
257 Brinton's _Myths of the New World_, p. 130.
258 Schoolcraft's _Indian Tribes_, iii. 485.
259 _Myths of the New World_, p. 133.
260 _Ibid._, p. 134.
261 _Origin of Civilization_, p. 315.
262 _Myths of the New World_, pp. 135-7.
263 _Ibid._, p. 131.
264 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, i. 318.
265 Chambers's _Etymological Dictionary_ (Findlater).
266 _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, p. 865.
267 _Ecclesiastical Polity_. London, 1617, p. 191.
268 _The Natural History of Infidelity and Superstition_, by J. E.
Riddle, M.A. Oxford, 1852, p. 155.
269 _The Anatomy of Melancholy_. London, 1836, p. 669.
270 _The Descent of Man_, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., etc.
London, 1877, p. 121.
271 _Essays. Of Superstition_.
272 _Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind_. Edinburgh,
1828, p. 673
273 _Voltaire_, by John Morley. London, 1878, p. 156. See also
Parton's _Life of Voltaire_.
274 Gubernatis' _Zoological Mythology_, i. 56.
275 _Vide_ Inman's _Ancient Faiths_, ii. 260, 326.
276 Mosheim's _Ecclesiastical History_. London, 1847, i. 116.
277 _History of Brazil_, by Robert Southey. London, 1810, p. 635.
278 _The Dictionary, Historical and Critical_. London, 1734, iv.
672.
279 _Primitive Culture_, i. 262.
280 Leslie's _Early Races of Scotland_, ii. 496.
281 _History of Brazil_, i. 193.
282 _Icelandic Legends_. Collected by Jon Arnason (Powell and
Magnusson). London, 1866, p. 663.
283 _On the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions_, by Herbert
Mayo, M.D. Edinburgh and London, 1851, p. 135.
284 _A Literal Translation of Aristophanes: The Clouds_, by a
First-Class Man of Balliol College. Oxford, 1883, p. 31.
285 See _Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-Lore_,
by Walter H. Kelly. London, 1863, p. 226.
286 _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 706.
287 _Astronomical Myths_, p. 331
288 _Medea: a Tragedie_. Written in Latin by Lucius Anneus
Seneca. London, 1648, p. 105.
289 _The Childhood of the World_, by Edward Clodd, F.R.A.S.
London, 1875, p. 65.
290 _The Chinese Empire_, by M. Hue. London, 1855, ii. 376.
291 _The Connection of the Physical Sciences_. London, 1877, p.
104.
292 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 707.
293 _Appendix on the Astronomy of the Ancient Chinese_, by the
Rev. John Chalmers, A.M. Legge's Chinese Classics. Vol. iii. Part i.
Hong-Kong, 1861, p. 101.
294 _The Middle Kingdom_, i. 818.
295 _Ibid._, ii. 73.
296 _Social Life of the Chinese_, by the Rev. Justus Doolittle, of
Fuhchau. New York, 1867, i. 308.
297 _Chinese Sketches_, by Herbert A. Giles. London, 1876, p. 99.
298 _Gems of Chinese Literature_, by Herbert A. Giles. Shanghai,
1884 p. 102.
299 _An Account of Cochin China_. Written in Italian by the R. E.
Christopher Borri, a Milanese, of the Society of Jesus. Pinkerton's
Travels, ix. 816.
300 _A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo in the East
Indies_, by Captain Daniel Beeckman. London, 1878, p. 107.
301 _History of the Indian Archipelago_, by John Crawfurd, F.R.S.
Edinburgh, 1820, i. 305.
302 _Sketches of the History of Man_, iii. 300.
303 _Thucydides_. Translated by B. Jowett, M.A. Oxford, 1881, i.
521.
304 _The Stratagems of Jerusalem_, by Lodowick Lloyd, Esq., One
of her Majestie's Serjeants at arms. London, 1602, p. 286.
305 Quoted in _Notes and Queries_, 16th of April, 1881, by
William E. A. Axon.
306 _Northern Antiquities_, by Paul Henri Mallett. London, 1790,
i. 39.
307 _Teutonic Mythology_, i. 245.
308 _Ibid._, ii. 705.
309 _Advice to a Son_. Oxford, 1658, p. 105
310 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 714.
311 Schoolcraft's _Indian Tribes_, v. 2 16.
312 Brinton's _Myths_, p. 137.
313 Bradford's _American Antiquities_, p. 332.
314 _Ibid._, p. 333.
315 _The Antiquities of Mexico_, by Augustine Aglio. London,
1830, folio vi. 144.
316 Bancroft's _Native Races_, iii. 111.
317 Brinton's _Myths_, p. 131.
318 _Polynesian Researches_, i. 331.
319 Mariner's _Natives of the Tonga Islands_, ii. 127.
320 _Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon_. London,
1853, p. 552.
321 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, ii. 272.
322 _Ibid._, ii. 272.
323 _Description of the Western Islands of Scotland_, by Martin
Martin. London, 1716, p. 41.
324 _The Philosophie_, p. 696.
325 _A Voyage to St. Kilda, the remotest of all the Hybrides_, by
M. Martin, Gent. Printed in the year 1698. Miscellanea Scottica.
Glasgow, 1818, p. 34.
326 _The Zend-Avesta_. Oxford, 1883, ii. 90.
327 _Five Hundred pointes of good Husbandrie_, by Thomas
Tusser. London, 1580, p. 37.
328 Flammarion's _Marvels of the Heavens_, p. 244.
329 _The Philosophie_, 1603, p. 697.
330 _English Folk-Lore_, by the Rev. T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M.A.,
Oxon. London, 1880, p. 42.
331 _Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England
and the Borders_, by William Henderson. London, 1866, p. 86.
332 _Knowledge for the Time_, by John Timbs, F.S.A. London, p.
227.
333 _Popular Errors, Explained and Illustrated_, by John Timbs,
F.S.A. London, 1857, p. 131.
334 _A Manual of Astrology_, by Raphael. London, 1828, p. 90.
335 Brinton's _Myths_, p. 132.
336 _Endimion: The Man in the Moone_. London, 159 1, Act i. Sc.
I.
337 _A defensative against the poyson of supposed Prophecies_, by
Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. London, 1583.
338 _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 118.
339 Tusser's _Good Husbandrie_, p. 13.
340 _Ibid._, p. 13.
341 _Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England_, p. 41
342 _David Copperfield_. The "Charles Dickens" edition, p. 270.
343 See _An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients_,
by the Rt. Hon. Sir George C. Lewis, Bart. London, 1862, p. 312.
344 _Popular Astronomy_, by Simon Newcomb, LL.D. New York,
1882, p. 325.
345 _Primitive Culture_, i. 118.
346 Dennys's _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 32.
347 _Folk-Lore; or, Manners and Customs of the North of
England_, by M.A.D. Novo-Castro-sup. Tynan, 1850-51, p. 11.
348 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 42.
349 _Ibid._, p. 41.
350 _Time's Telescope_ for 1814. London, p. 368.
351 Dennys's _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 118.
352 _The Book of Days: a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities_.
Edited by R. Chambers. London and Edinburgh, ii. 203.
353 _The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey_. Edited by
his son. London, 1850, v. 341.
354 _Adam Bede_, chap. xviii.
355 _Scottish Ballads and Songs_. Edited by James Maidment.
Edinburgh, 1868, i. 41.
356 _Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language_. Paisley,
1880, iii. 299.
357 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 38.
358 _Notes and Queries_ for May 16th, 1874, p. 384.
359 _Ibid._ for August 1st, 1874, p. 84.
360 _Amazulu_, by Thomas B. Jenkinson, B.A., late Canon of
Maritzburg. London, 1882, p. 61.
361 _Legends of Iceland_. Collected by Jon Arnason. Second
series. London, 1866, p. 635.
362 _Astrology, as it is, not as it has been represented_, by a
Cavalry Officer. London, 1856, p. 37.
363 _A Manual of Astrology_, by Raphael. London, 1828, p. 89.
364 _The Dignity and Advancement of Learning_. London (Bohn),
1853, p. 129.
365 _Works_. London, 1740, iii. 187.
366 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 41.
367 _Scottish Dictionary_, iii. 300.
368 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, i. 117.
369 Vide Potter's _Antiquities of Greece_, ii. 262.
370 _Recreations in Astronomy_, by the Rev. Lewis Tomlinson,
M.A. London, 1858, p. 251.
371 Flammarion's _Marvels of the Heavens_, p. 243.
372 _Genesis, with a Talmudic Commentary_, by Paul Isaac
Hershon. London, 1883, p. 50.
373 _Notes on the Miracles_, p. 363.
374 _The Gospel of S. Matthew illustrated from Ancient and
Modern Authors_, by the Rev. James Ford, M.A. London, 1859, p.
310.
375 See _Light: Its Influence on Life and Health_, by Forbes
Winslow, M.D., D.C.L. London, 1867, p. 94. Also, _The History of
Astronomy_, by George Costard, M.A. London, 1767, p. 275.
376 _The Science and Practice of Medicine_, by William Aitken,
M.D. London, 1864, ii. 353.
377 _Myths of the New World_, p. 132.
378 _Ibid._, p. 134.
379 _Ibid._, p. 135.
380 _The Darker Superstitions of Scotland illustrated from history
and practice_, by John Graham Dalyell. Edinburgh, 1834, p. 286.
381 _The Early Races of Scotland_, i. 136.
382 _The Statistical Account of Scotland_, by Sir John Sinclair,
Bart. Edinburgh, 1791, i. 47.
383 _Works_. London, 1740, iii. 187.
384 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 47.
385 _Some West Sussex Superstitions Lingering in_ 1868.
Collected by Charlotte Latham, at Fittleworth. _The Folk-Lore
Record_ for 1878, p. 45.
386 Dyer's _Folk-Lore_, p. 48.
387 Inman's _Ancient Faiths_, ii. 327.
388 _Fairy Tales: their origin and meaning_, by John Thackray
Bunce. London, 1878, p. 131.
389 Martin's _Western Islands of Scotland_, 1716, p. 42.
390 _Letters from the East_, by John Carne, Esq. London, 1826, p.
77.
391 Grimm's _Teutonic Mythology_, ii. 715.
392 Timbs's _Knowledge for the Time_, p. 227.
393 _Dissertation upon Superstitions in Natural Things_, by
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