e, its constructors must
have been in the exogamous stage of society.
{169} Sampo _may_ be derived from a Thibetan word, meaning 'fountain of
good,' or it may possibly be connected with the Swedish Stamp, a hand-
mill. The talisman is made of all the quaint odds and ends that the
Fetichist treasures: swan's feathers, flocks of wool, and so on.
{170} Sir G. W. Cox's Popular Romances of the Middle Ages, p. 19.
{171} Fortnightly Review, 1869: 'The Worship of Plants and Animals.'
{176} Mr. McLennan in the Fortnightly Review, February 1870.
{178} M. Schmidt, Volksleben der Neugriechen, finds comparatively few
traces of the worship of Zeus, and these mainly in proverbial
expressions.
{183} Preller, Ausgewahlte Aufsatze, p. 154.
{184a} Tylor, Prim. Cult., ii. 156. Pinkerton, vii. 357.
{184b} Universities Mission to Central Africa, p. 217. Prim. Cult,, ii.
156, 157.
{186} Quoted in 'Jacob's Rod': London, n.d., a translation of La Verge
de Jacob, Lyon, 1693.
{190} Lettres sur la Baguette, pp. 106-112.
{200} Turner's Samoa, pp, 77, 119.
{201} Cox, Mythol. of Aryan Races, passim.
{202a} See examples in 'A Far-travelled Tale,' 'Cupid and Psyche,' and
'The Myth of Cronus.'
{202b} Trubner, 1881.
{203a} Hahn, p. 23.
{203b} Ibid., p. 45.
{204} Expedition, i. 166.
{205} Herodotus, ii.
{209} See Fetichism and the Infinite.
{211} Sacred Books of the East, xii. 130, 131,
{218} Lectures on Language. Second series, p. 41.
{222} A defence of the evidence for our knowledge of savage faiths,
practices, and ideas will be found in Primitive Culture, i. 9-11.
{223} A third reference to Pausanias I have been unable to verify. There
are several references to Greek fetich-stones in Theophrastus's account
of the Superstitious Man. A number of Greek sacred stones named by
Pausanias may be worth noticing. In Boeotia (ix. 16), the people
believed that Alcmene, mother of Heracles, was changed into a stone. The
Thespians worshipped, under the name of Eros, an unwrought stone,
[Greek], 'their most ancient sacred object' (ix. 27). The people of
Orchomenos 'paid extreme regard to certain stones,' said to have fallen
from heaven, 'or to certain figures made of stone that descended from the
sky' (ix. 38). Near Chaeronea, Rhea was said to have deceived Cronus, by
offering him, in place of Zeus, a stone wrapped in swaddling bands. This
stone, which Cronus vomited forth after ha
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