h in 1818; but
since then they have become 'pacified.']

[Footnote 7: It is often no more than a small hatchet stuck
in the belt, if they wear the latter, which in the jungle is
more raiment than they are wont to put on.]

[Footnote 8: The snake in the tree is common to many tribes,
both being tutelary. The Gonds are 'sons of the forest
Trees,' and of the northern bull.]

[Footnote 9: It seems to us that this feature need not be
reckoned as a sign of exogamy. It is often, so far as we
have observed, only a stereotyped form to express
bashfulness.]

[Footnote 10: Some say earth-_god._ Thus the account given
in JRAS. 1842, p. 172, says 'male earth-god as ancestor,'
but most modern writers describe the divinity as a female.
Some of the Khonds worship only earth (as a peacock). This
is the peacock revered at the Pongol.]

[Footnote 11: The Gonds also have a boundary-god. Graves as
boundaries are known among the Anglo-Saxons. Possibly Hermes
as boundary-god may be connected with the Hermes that
conducts souls; or is it simply as thief-god that he guards
from theft? The Khond practice would indicate that the
corpse (as something sacred) made the boundary, not that the
boundary was made by running a line to a barrow, as is the
case in the Anglo-Saxon connection between barrow and
bound.]

[Footnote 12: Some may compare Bellerophon !]

[Footnote 13: Tutelary deities are of house, village,
groves, etc. The 'House-god' is, of course, older than this
or than Hinduism. The Rig Veda recognizes V[=a]stoshpati,
the 'Lord of the House,' to whom the law (Manu, III. 89,
etc.) orders oblations to be made. But Hinduism prefers a
female house-goddess (see above, p. 374). Windisch connects
this Vedic divinity, V[=a]stos-pati, with Vesta and Hestia.
The same scholar compares Keltic _vassus, vassallus_,
originally 'house-man'; and very ingeniously equates
Vassorix with Vedic _vas[=a][.m] r[=a]j[=a]--vic[=a][.m]
r[=a]j[=a]_, 'king of the house-men' (clan), like
_h[.u]skarlar_,'house-fellows,' in Scandinavian (domesticus,
*_ouk(tes)_). Windisch, _Vassus und Vassallus_, in the
_Bericht. d. k. Saechs. Gesell_. 1892, p. 174.]

[Footnote 14: That is to say, a dead man's spirit goes to
heaven, or is re-born whole in the tribe, or i