227 _Ill.u.s.trations 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 Garcila.s.so 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 _j.a.panese Fairy World_. Stories from the Wonder Lore of j.a.pan, 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 Superst.i.tion_, 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 Superst.i.tion_.

272 _Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind_. Edinburgh, 1828, p. 673