South-East Australia_ p. 436; Mrs. K. Langloh
Parker, _The Euahlayi Tribe_, pp. 28, 83 f.

[1644] Dorsey, _The Skidi Pawnee_, Index, s.v. _Dreams_.

[1645] Ellis, _Tshi_, p. 90

[1646] Breasted, _History of Egypt_, p. 468, and see p. 558.

[1647] Gen. xi f.

[1648] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 349
f.

[1649] Gen. xx, 3; xxviii, 12; xxxi, 11; xxxvii, 5.

[1650] Dan. ii, iv.

[1651] _Iliad_, ii, 1 ff. So Yahweh, by a lying spirit,
sends Ahab to his death (1 Kings, xxii, 19 ff.) and deceives
the prophet, who misleads the people (Ezek. xiv, 9). The
theory of these ancient writers was that a deity, like an
earthly king, had a right to use any means to gain his ends.

[1652] Cf. article "Oneiros" in Roscher's _Lexikon_.

[1653] 1 Sam. xxviii, 6. The other means used, it is said,
were the urim (urim and thummim) and prophets. These all
failing, the king had recourse to necromancy.

[1654] See article "Asklepios" in Roscher's _Lexikon_.

[1655] See the description in Pater's _Marius the
Epicurean_.

[1656] A god might send a dream to a seer for the benefit of
some other person. So Ishtar spoke to Assurbanipal through
the dream of a seer (George Smith, _History of
Assurbanipal_, p. 123 f.).

[1657] Jastrow, _Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens_; Dan.
ii, 2 ff.; Deut. xiii, 1; Gardner and Jevons, _Greek
Antiquities_, p. 258; Aust, _Religion der Roemer_, Index,
s.v. _Traum_, _Traumdeutung_; Roscher, _Lexikon_, article
"Oneiros."

[1658] So it was in the case of magicians and prophets
generally; cf. Ezek. xxxix, 21; Isa. xiiii, 9.

[1659] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 404,
and German ed., ii, Index.

[1660] Dream-books exist at the present day. Those who
believe in the predictive power of dreams regard them as
messages from God or as products of telepathy.

[1661] The Nandi invoke a skull as divine witness (Hollis,
_The Nandi_, p. 76 f.).

[1662] Ellis, _Tshi_ chap. xviii.

[1663] Apparently because he is thus shown to be unsupported
by any evil spirit.

[1664] Frobenius, _Childhood of Man_, p. 190 ff.

[1665] Turner, _Samoa_, p. 184.

[1666] Purchas, _Pilgrimage_, ed. Ravenstein, pp. 56 f., 59
f.

[1667] "Code of Hammurabi" (Sec.Sec. 2, 132), by C. H. W. Johns,
in Hastings's _Dictionary of the Bible_, extra volume.

[1668] Numb. v.

[1669] Hopkins, _Religi