Ethics_. Cf., for the Hebrews, W. R. Smith, _Religion of the
Semites_, 2d ed., p. 217 ff.; for the Greeks, Gardner and
Jevons, _Greek Antiquities_, p. 245 f.; Miss Harrison,
_Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, chap. x.
[1841] Batchelor, _The Ainu_.
[1842] A. C. Haddon, _Head-hunters_, p. 353 ff.
[1843] F. H. Cushing, "My Adventures in Zuni" in _The
Century Magazine_ for May, 1883.
[1844] Cf. Hubert and Mauss, "Essai sur le sacrifice" in
_Annee sociologique_, ii (1898).
[1845] A more socially refined conception appears in the
lectisternium, in which the gods sit at table with their
human friends. Cf. Wissowa, _Religion der Roemer_, p. 355
ff.; Fowler, _Religious Experience of the Roman People_,
Index, s.v.
[1846] Sec. 23.
[1847] For the worshiper the blood had strengthening power.
[1848] 1 Kings, xvi, 34; article "Bridge" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1849] Cf. Westermarck, _Origin and Development of the Moral
Ideas_, Index, s.v. _Human Sacrifice_.
[1850] Breasted, _History of Egypt_, pp. 325, 411, 478.
[1851] Pietschmann, _Phoenizier_, p. 167; Tylor, _Primitive
Culture_, ii, 403; 2 Kings, iii, 27; Exod. xiii; i, 13;
Noeldeke, article "Arabs (Ancient)" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1852] 2 Kings, xvii, 31.
[1853] _Rig-Veda_, x, 18, 8; viii, 51, 2.
[1854] _Sankhayan Srauta Sutra_, xvi, 10-14; Weber,
_Indische Streifen_, i, 65; Hopkins, _Religions of India_,
pp. 196, 198.
[1855] Hopkins, op. cit., p. 326 ff. Cf. also the practice
of the thugs, which has now been put a stop to by the
British Government.
[1856] De Groot, in Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der
Religionsgeschichte_, 2d ed., p. 77 f.
[1857] Saussaye, _Religion of the Teutons_, Index, s.v.
[1858] Williams, _Fiji_; Turner, _Samoa_; Codrington, _The
Melanesians_.
[1859] Waitz-Gerland, _Anthropologie der Naturvoelker_,
Index; J. G. Mueller, _Geschichte der amerikanischen
Urreligionen_, Index; Gatschet, _Migration Legend of the
Creeks_, p. 36.
[1860] Payne, _The New World, Called America_. In Mexico the
victim was surrounded with luxuries (including wives) and
treated as a god for one year and then sacrificed (Frazer,
_Golden Bough_, 1st ed., ii, 218 ff.; 2d ed., ii, 342 f.).
[1861] A. B. Ellis, _Tshi_, _E['w]e_, and _Yoruba_.
[1862] For such substitutions in Greece see G
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