Footnote 128:
See article “On Kirk-Grims” in _The Cornhill Magazine_ for February,
1887, p. 196.
Footnote 129:
On the testimony of a native Chinese clergyman.
Footnote 130:
See article “On Kirk-Grims” in _The Cornhill Magazine_ for February,
1887.
Footnote 131:
See article “On Kirk Grims” in _The Cornhill Magazine_, for February,
1887, p. 191.
Footnote 132:
Tylor’s _Primitive Culture_, I., 104 f.
Footnote 133:
Ralston’s _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 128.
Footnote 134:
See article “On Kirk-Grims” in _The Cornhill Magazine_ for February,
1887, p. 191.
Footnote 135:
See Gomme’s article on “Traditions Connected with Buildings,” in _The
Antiquary_, III., 11.
Footnote 136:
See Coote’s “A Building Superstition,” in London _Folk-Lore Journal_,
I., 22 f.
Footnote 137:
See W.G. Chase’s “Notes from Alaska,” in _Journal of American
Folk-Lore_, VI., 51.
Footnote 138:
See Tylor’s _Primitive Culture_, I., 104–108.
Footnote 139:
Rodd’s _Customs and Lore of Modern Greece_, p. 168 f.
Footnote 140:
_Ibid._
Footnote 141:
Garnett’s _Women of Turkey_ (“Christian Women”), p. 22.
Footnote 142:
Rodd’s _Customs and Lore of Modern Greece_, p. 148.
Footnote 143:
See Ralston’s _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 126.
Footnote 144:
_Ibid._, p. 127.
Footnote 145:
Ralston’s _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 135 f.
Footnote 146:
This is the case with the Church House in Philadelphia,–the
“corner-stone” of which was laid while this page was writing.
Footnote 147:
See Erman’s _Life in Ancient Egypt_, p. 175.
Footnote 148:
See Coote’s “A Building Superstition,” in London _Folk-Lore Journal_,
I., 22.
Footnote 149:
Lanciani’s _Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries_, p. 225
f.
Footnote 150:
See article “On Kirk-Grims” in _The Cornhill Magazine_ for February,
1887, p. 192.
Footnote 151:
_Ibid._, p. 195.
Footnote 152:
See Bancroft’s _Native Races_, V., 471.
Footnote 153:
See Trumbull’s _Studies in Oriental Social Life_, pp. 98, 112–131.
Footnote 154:
See Josh. 10 : 3–35; 12 : 11; 15 : 39; 2 Kings 14 : 19; 18 : 14–19,
etc.
Footnote 155:
See, for example, 1 Kings 2 : 28.
Footnote 156:
See Bliss’s _Mound of Many Cities_, p. 77 f.
Footnote 157:
See “Afghan Life in Afghan Songs,” in Darmesteter’s _Selected Essays_,
p. 117.
Footnote 158:
On the testimony of a native Syrian of wide experience in the region
referred to.
Footnote 159:
W. Robertson Smith’s _Religion of the Semites_, p. 319.
Footnote 160:
_Strassmaier Nabuchodonosor_, No. 183.
Footnote 161:
Dieulafoy’s “L’art antique de la Perse;” cited in Babelon’s _Manual of
Oriental Antiquities_, p. 152.
Footnote 162:
See _The Times_ (London) for July 12, 1894.
Footnote 163:
See Hopkins’s _Religions of India_, p. 361, note.
Footnote 164:
In a personal letter to the Author.
Footnote 165:
Exod. 32 : 26.
Footnote 166:
Judg. 19 : 25–30.
Footnote 167:
Ruth 4 : 1–10.
Footnote 168: