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 Superst.i.tions_, by Herbert Mayo, M.D. Edinburgh and London, 1851, p. 135.

284 _A Literal Translation of Aristophanes: The Clouds_, by a First-Cla.s.s 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 Cla.s.sics. 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.