ons of India_, p. 275 ff.

[1670] She was rejected by the sacred water; cf. W. R.
Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, 2d ed., p. 179; Tylor,
_Primitive Culture_, i, 140. Cf. Ellis, _Yoruba_, p. 190 f.;
id., _Tshi_, pp. 198, 201.

[1671] Turner, _Samoa_, p. 184.

[1672] Similarly, a blessing once uttered remains effective
and cannot be recalled; so in the story of Isaac blessing
Jacob and Esau, Gen. xxvii.

[1673] Westermarck, "L'ar" in _Anthropological Essays
presented to Tylor_; cf. his _Origin and Development of the
Moral Ideas_, Index, s.v. _Curses_.

[1674] Hence the opposition (now disappearing) to lines of
railway and telegraph, which were supposed to interfere with
the happy influences of rivers and hills and other natural
features.

[1675] De Groot, _Religious System of China_ and
_Development of Religion in China_; and his article "Die
Chinesen" in Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte_.
See above, Sec. 747 ff.

[1676] Haddon, _Head-hunters_, pp. 42, 182 f.; on the
sacredness of the head see Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed.,
i, 362 ff.; Frobenius, _Childhood of Man_, chap. xiii.

[1677] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 532.

[1678] So when Rebecca wished to obtain information about
her children, soon to be born, it is said simply that she
went to inquire of Yahweh (Gen. xxv, 22), as if there was,
as a matter of course, a shrine in the neighborhood.

[1679] Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans
l'antiquite_, ii, 250 ff.; iii.

[1680] Cumont, _Les religions orientales dans le paganisme
romain_, Eng. tr., _The Oriental Religions in Roman
Paganism_, pp. 105, 124 f., 168.

[1681] Cf. Steindorff, _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_,
p. 113 f.

[1682] Wellhausen, _Reste arabischen Heidentumes_, p. 126
ff.

[1683] 1 Sam. xiv, 36 ff.; xxiii, 2; xxx, 7 f.; Isa. lxv, 1;
Ezek. xxxiii, 30 ff.

[1684] 2 Kings, i, 2. The prophet Elijah, who was a zealous
Yahwist, was very angry with the king for applying to a
foreign deity; but evidently the Philistine shrine enjoyed a
greater reputation than any in Israel.

[1685] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, Index,
s.v. _Oracles_.

[1686] Cf. Aust, _Religion der Roemer_, Index, s.v. _Orakel_;
see below, Sec. 933 ff.

[1687] Friedlaender, _Roman Life and Manners under the Early
Empire_ (Eng. tr.), p. 3, 129 ff.; Fowler, _Religious
Expe