Frazer, _Golden Bough_ 2d ed., ii, 337 ff.

[426] This period has been generally held to be calendary.
Its calendary reality is denied by Legge (in _Recueil des
travaux_, xxxi) and Foucart (in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of
Religion and Ethics_, article "Calendar [Egyptian]").

[427] A noteworthy instance of this persistence appears in
the history of the Bene-Israel, a body of Jews living in the
Bombay Presidency (article "Bene-Israel" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_); they preserve the
Jewish religious festivals, but under Indian names.

[428] See above, Sec.Sec. 4, 7.

[429] The word "fetish" (from Portuguese _feitico_,
'artificial', then 'idol, charm,'), devised originally as a
name of charms used by the natives of the West African
coast, is often employed as a general name for early
religious practices. Its proper use is in the sense of a
dead object, as a piece of clay or a twig, in which, it is
held, a spirit dwells. The fetish is often practically a
god, often a household god; the interesting thing about it
is that the spirit, generally a tutelary spirit, can enter
the object or depart at will, may be brought in by
appropriate ceremonies, and may be dismissed when it is no
longer considered useful.

[430] Algonkin _manito_ or _manitu_ (W. Jones, in _Journal
of American Folklore_, xviii, 190); Iroquois _orenda_;
Siouan _wakonda_; Chickasa _hullo_ (_Journal of American
Folklore_, xx, 57); cf. the Masai _n'gai_, 'the unknown,
incomprehensible' (Hinde, _The Last of the Masai_, p. 99),
connected with storms and the telegraph. Other names perhaps
exist.

[431] Codrington, _The Melanesians_, Index, s.v. _Mana_.

[432] W. Jones, op. cit.

[433] It has therefore been compared to the modern idea of
force as inherent in matter.

[434] The American _manitu_ is an appellation of a personal
supernatural being. The Siouan _wakonda_ is invoked in
prayer (Miss Fletcher, _The Tree in the Dakotan Group_).

[435] Judg. xiv, 19; 1 Sam. xix, 23; Ezek. xxxix, 29. Fury
also is said to be poured out. Cf. Mark v, 30, where power
([Greek: dynamis]) is said to go out of Jesus.

[436] Cf. the Greek _energeia_ and _entelecheia_.

[437] Cf. I. King, _The Development of Religion_, chap. vi.

[438] Examples in J. H. King, _The Supernatural_. Cf. T. S.
Knowlson, _Origins of Popular Superstitions_, etc.; T.
Keightley, _Fair