and Romans_; Bouche-Leclercq, _L'astrologie grecque_
and _Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquite_.

[1626] Medieval belief in astral power is embodied in the
English word 'influence,' properly the inflow from the stars
(so in Milton's _L'Allegro_, 121 f., "ladies whose bright
eyes rain influence"). An astrologer was often attached to a
royal court or to the household of some great person, his
duty being to keep his patron informed as to the future.

[1627] _Odyssey_, xvii, 541 ff. The fear of a sneeze (which
must be followed by some form of 'God bless you!') belongs
in a different category; the danger is that a hurtful spirit
may enter the sneezer's body, or that his soul may depart.

[1628] Muir, _The Caliphate_, p. 112.

[1629] Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, ii,
362; Ellis, _Tshi_, p. 202; id., _Yoruba_, p. 97; cf.
Hollis, _The Masai_, p. 324.

[1630] 1 Sam. xxiii, 2.

[1631] 1 Sam. xiv, 38-42 (see the Septuagint text).

[1632] Ezek. xxi, 21 [26].

[1633] _Moallakat of Imru'l-Kais_, ver. 22.

[1634] Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans
l'antiquite_, i, 195 ff.; iv, 153, 159; Augustine,
_Confessions_, iv, 5: de paginis poetae cujuspiam longe
allud canentis atque intendentis; if, says Augustine's
friend, an apposite verse so appears, it is not wonderful
that something bearing on one's affairs should issue from
the human soul by some higher instinct, though the soul does
not know what goes on within it.

[1635] Cf. Comparetti, _Virgilio nel medio evo_, i, 64 f.
(Eng. tr., p. 47 f.).

[1636] As the Masai (Hollis, _The Masai_, p. 324).

[1637] Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans
l'antiquite_; Daremberg and Saglio, _Dictionnaire des
antiquites grecques et romaines_, s.v. _Haruspices_; Fowler,
_The Religious Experience of the Roman People_, Index, s.v.
_Haruspices_.

[1638] M. Jastrow, "The Liver in Antiquity" (_University of
Pennsylvania Medical Bulletin_, 1908) and _Religion
Babyloniens und Assyriens_.

[1639] _Primitive Culture_, i, 124.

[1640] See above, Sec. 28. The skull is employed as a means of
divination (Haddon, _Head-hunters_, p. 91 ff.).

[1641] See above, Sec. 24.

[1642] Cf. Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Oneiros," col. 904.

[1643] J. H. King, _The Supernatural_, i, 168 ff.; Tylor,
_Primitive Culture_, i, 121 ff., 440 f.; Howitt, _Native
Tribes of