ge alluded to in Homer does not mean that dawn 'ends' the
day, but 'when the fair-tressed Dawn brought the full light of the third
day' (Od., v. 390).

{70a} Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, 241) is reminded by Pururavas (in
Roth's sense of der Bruller) of loud-thundering Zeus, [Greek].

{70b} Herabkunft des Fetters, p. 86-89.

{71} Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, p. 241) notices the reference to the
'custom of women.' But he thinks the clause a mere makeshift, introduced
late to account for a prohibition of which the real meaning had been
forgotten. The improbability of this view is indicated by the frequency
of similar prohibitions in actual custom.

{72} Astley, Collection of Voyages, ii. 24. This is given by Bluet and
Moore on the evidence of one Job Ben Solomon, a native of Bunda in Futa.
'Though Job had a daughter by his last wife, yet he never saw her without
her veil, as having been married to her only two years.' Excellently as
this prohibition suits my theory, yet I confess I do not like Job's
security.

{73a} Brough Smyth, i. 423.

{73b} Bowen, Central Africa, p. 303.

{73c} Lafitau, i. 576.

{73d} Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation (1875), p. 75.

{74a} Chansons Pop. Bulg., p. 172.

{74b} Lectures on Language, Second Series, p. 41.

{75a} J. A. Farrer, Primitive Manners, p. 202, quoting Seemann.

{75b} Sebillot, Contes Pop. de la Haute-Bretagne, p. 183.

{76a} Gervase of Tilbury.

{76b} Kuhn, Herabkunft, p. 92.

{77} Chips, ii. 251.

{80a} Kitchi Gami, p. 105.

{80b} The sun-frog occurs seven times in Sir G. W: Cox's Mythology of
the Aryan Peoples, and is used as an example to prove that animals in
myth are usually the sun, like Bheki, 'the sun-frog.'

{81a} Dalton's Ethnol. of Bengal, pp. 165, 166.

{81b} Taylor, New Zealand, p. 143.

{82a} Liebrecht gives a Hindoo example, Zur Volkskunde, p. 239.

{82b} Cymmrodor, iv. pt. 2.

{82c} Prim. Cult., i. 140.

{83a} Primitive Manners, p. 256.

{83b} See Meyer, Gandharven-Kentauren, Benfey, Pantsch., i. 263.

{84a} Selected Essays, i. 411.

{84b} Callaway, p. 63.

{84c} Ibid., p. 119.

{87} Primitive Culture, i. 357: 'The savage sees individual stars as
animate beings, or combines star-groups into living celestial creatures,
or limbs of them, or objects connected with them.'

{88} This formula occurs among Bushmen and Eskimo (Bleek and Rink).

{92} The events of the flight are recorded correctly in the Gae