lic
variant 'The Battle of the Birds.' (Campbell, Tales of the West
Highlands, vol. i. p. 25.)
{93a} Ralston, Russian Folk Tales, 132; Kohler, Orient und Occident, ii.
107, 114.
{93b} Ko ti ki, p. 36.
{93c} Callaway, pp. 51, 53, 64, 145, 228.
{93d} See also 'Petrosinella' in the Pentamerone, and 'The Mastermaid'
in Dasent's Tales from the Norse.
{93e} Folk-Lore Journal, August 1883.
{95} Poetae Minores Gr. ii.
{96} Mythol. Ar., ii. 150.
{97a} Gr. My., ii. 318.
{97b} Sonne, Mond und Sterne, pp. 213, 229.
{99a} This proves that the tale belongs to the pre-Christian cannibal
age.
{99b} Turner's Samoa, p. 102. In this tale only the names of the
daughters are translated; they mean 'white fish' and 'dark fish.'
{99c} Folk-Lore Journal, August 1883.
{101} Schoolcraft, Algic Researches, ii. 94-104.
{102a} Nature, March 14, 1884.
{102b} The earlier part of the Jason cycle is analysed in the author's
preface to Grimm's Marchen (Bell & Sons).
{104a} Comm. Real. i. 75.
{104b} See Early History of the Family, infra.
{105a} The names Totem and Totemism have been in use at least since
1792, among writers on the North American tribes. Prof. Max Muller
(Academy, Jan. 1884) says the word should be, not Totem, but Ote or Otem.
Long, an interpreter among the Indians, introduced the word Totamism in
1792.
{105b} Christoval de Moluna (1570), p. 5.
{105c} Cieza de Leon, p. 183.
{105d} Idyll xv.
{107} Sayce, Herodotos, p. 344; Herodotus, ii. 42; Wilkinson's Ancient
Egyptians (1878, ii. 475, note 2); Plutarch, De Is. et Os., 71, 72;
Athenaeus, vii. 299; Strabo, xvii. 813.
{108a} The Mouse, according to Dalton, is still a totem among the Oraons
of Bengal. A man of the Mouse 'motherhood,' as the totem kindred is
locally styled, may not eat mice (esteemed a delicacy), nor marry a girl
who is a Mouse.
{108b} xiii. 604. Casaub. 1620.
{108c} There were Sminthiac feasts at Rhodes, Gela, Lesbos, and Crete
(De Witte, Revue Numismatique, N.S. iii. 3-11).
{109a} Iliad, i. 39.
{109b} AElian, H. A. xii. 5.
{110a} The bas-relief is published in Paoli's Della Religione de'
Gentili, Naples, 1771, p. 9; also by Fabretti, Ad Cal. Oper. de Colum.
Trajan. p. 315. Paoli's book was written after the discovery in
Neapolitan territory of a small bronze image, hieratic in character,
representing a man with a mouse on his hand. Paoli's engraving of this
work of art, u
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