vivals in religion and ritual.

{119} Rolland, Faune populaire.

{121} The attempt is not to explain the origin of each separate name but
only of the general habit of giving animal or human names stars.

{125} Mr. Herbert Spencer believes that the Australians were once more
civilised than at present. But there has never been found a trace of
pottery on the Australian continent, which says little for their
civilisation in the past.

{128} Brugsch, History of Egypt, i. 32.

{130} Brough Smith.

{131} Amazonian Tortoise Myths, p. 39.

{132a} Sahagun, vii. 3.

{132b} Grimm, D. M., Engl. transl., p. 716.

{133} Hartt, op. cit., p. 40.

{134a} Kaegi, Der Rig Veda, p. 217.

{134b} Mainjo-i-Khard, 49, 22, ed. West.

{134c} Op. cit. p. 98.

{137} Prim. Cult., i. 357.

{140} Lectures on Language, pp. 359, 362.

{144} Grimm, D. M., Engl., Trans. p. 1202.

{145} Tom Sawyer, p. 87.

{146a} Rep. vi. 488. Dem. 10, 6.

{146b} Journal Anthrop. Inst., Feb. 1881.

{147a} Gregor, Folklore of North-east Counties, p, 40.

{147b} Wars of Jews, vii. 6, 3.

{147c} Var. Hist., 14, 27.

{148} Max Muller, Selected Essays, ii. 622.

{151} Myth of Kirke, p. 80.

{152a} Turner's Samoa.

{152b} Josephus, loc. cit. For this, and many other references, I am
indebted to Schwartz's Prahistorisch-anthropologische Studien. In most
magic herbs the learned author recognises thunder and lightning--a theory
no less plausible than Mr. Brown's.

{152c} Lib. xxviii.

{152d} Schoolcraft.

{157a} Talvj, Charakteristik der Volkslieder, p. 3.

{157b} Fauriel, Chants de la Grece moderne.

{160} Thus Scotland scarcely produced any ballads, properly speaking,
after the Reformation. The Kirk suppressed the dances to whose motion
the ballad was sung in Scotland, as in Greece, Provence, and France.

{161} L. Preller's Ausgewahlte Aufsatze. Greek ideas on the origin of
Man. It is curious that the myth of a gold, a silver, and a copper race
occurs in South America. See Brasseur de Bourbourg's Notes on the Popol
Vuh.

{164a} See essay on Early History of the Family.

{164b} This constant struggle may be, and of course by one school of
comparative mythologists will be, represented as the strife between light
and darkness, the sun's rays, and the clouds of night, and so on. M.
Castren has well pointed out that the struggle has really an historical
meaning. Even if the myth be an elementary on