Cf. ‘Nexosque resolveret artus,’ Virgil on the death of Dido. Æneid iv. 695.
11
See Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 302, and Notes and Queries, 1st S. iv. p. 350.
12
Ibid. i. p. 467.
13
1st S. iii. p. 84.
14
Kelly’s Indo-European Folk-lore, pp. 127-128.
15
Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 43.
16
In a note to Redgauntlet, Letter xi.
17
Folk-lore Record, i. pp. 59-60.
18
Timon of Athens, iv. 3.
19
Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, pp. 60-61.
20
See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 145.
21
Iliad, ii. 852.
22
Illustrations of Shakspeare, 1839, pp. 324-326.
23
Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 40.
24
Tylor’s Anthropology, 1881, p. 343.
25
See further instances in Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. pp. 440, 441.
26
Fiji and the Fijians, i. p. 242.
27
See Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, 1870, p. 141.
28
Werewolves, p. 29.
29
See Chapter on Second Sight.
30
See Tylor’s Anthropology, p. 345; and Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, p. 141; and H. Spencer’s Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 777.
31
Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 174.
32
De Anima, p. 9; see Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 456.
33
Principles of Sociology, 1885, i. p. 174.
34
See Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 457.
35
Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 20.
36
Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 456.
37
Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 253.
38
See Tylor’s Anthropology, 1881, p. 344.
39
Nineteenth Century, July 1885, pp. 143-144, ‘Transylvanian Superstitions,’ by Madame Emily de Laszowska Gerard.
40
Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 117.
41
Myths and Dreams, 1885, p. 184.
42
Myths and Myth-makers, 1873, p. 225.
43
See Hunt’s Popular Romances of the West of England, p. 373.
44
Fasti, v. 457.
45
Primitive Superstitions, p. 195.
46
The Origin of Civilisation, and the Primitive Condition of Man, 1870, p. 140; see Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 263.
47
Brinton’s Myths of the New World, 1868, p. 257.
48
Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, 1881, p. 193.
49
See Lecky’s Rationalism in Europe, 1870, i. p. 340; cf. Maury’s Légendes Pieuses, p. 124.
50
Primitive Culture, i. p. 455.
51
See Andrew Lang’s Myth, Ritual, Religion, i. p. 108.
52
Odyssey, xxiv.
53
Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. p. 451.
54
Night Side of Nature.
55
Yardley’s Supernatural in Fiction, p. 93.
56
Letourneau’s Sociology, p. 257.
57
Primitive Culture, ii. p. 29; Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare, pp. 450, 451.
58
Henderson’s Folk-lore of Northern Counties, p. 126, note.
59
Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. p. 166.
60
See Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, p. 68.
61
Edited by C. S. Burne.
62
Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, 1886, Essays in the Study of Folk-songs, p. 8.
63
Study of Folk-songs, p. 2.
64
Study of Folk-songs, p. 8.
65
Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 121.
66
Study of Folk-songs, p. 21.
67
Folk-lore Record, 1879, iii. pp. 111, 112.
68
Folk-lore Record, 1879, iii. pp. 111, 112.
69
Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 119.
70
Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, p. 69.
71
Sir John Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation, p. 134.
72
Primitive Culture, ii. p. 120.
73
The Chinese: J. F. Davis, 1836, ii. pp. 139, 140.
74
Folk-lore of China, p. 73.
75
See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, p. 304.
76
Primitive Culture, ii. p. 28.
77
See Dorman’s Primitive Superstitions, 1880, pp. 19, 20.
78
Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii, p. 19.
79
Thorpe’s Northern Mythology, ii. pp. 94, 95.
80
Griffis, The Mikado’s Kingdom.
81
Denny’s Folk-lore of China; see Bassett’s Legends and Superstitions
S. i. p. 315.
