ni's body is converted into
a heap of black ashes, and Seyf-el-Mulook escapes with the maiden
Dolet-Khatoon. See Lane's Arabian Nights, Vol. III. p. 316.]

[Footnote 7: The same incident is repeated in the story of Hassan of
El-Basrah. See Lane's Arabian Nights, Vol. III p. 452.]

[Footnote 8: "Retrancher le merveilleux d'un mythe, c'est le
supprimer."--Breal, Hercule et Cacus, p. 50.]

[Footnote 9: "No distinction between the animate and inanimate is made
in the languages of the Eskimos, the Choctaws, the Muskoghee, and the
Caddo. Only the Iroquois, Cherokee, and the Algonquin-Lenape have it, so
far as is known, and with them it is partial." According to the Fijians,
"vegetables and stones, nay, even tools and weapons, pots and canoes,
have souls that are immortal, and that, like the souls of men, pass on
at last to Mbulu, the abode of departed spirits."--M'Lennan, The Worship
of Animals and Plants, Fortnightly Review, Vol. XII. p, 416.]

[Footnote 10: Marcus Aurelius, V. 7.]

[Footnote 11: Some of these etymologies are attacked by Mr. Mahaffy in
his Prolegomena to Ancient History, p. 49. After long consideration I am
still disposed to follow Max Muller in adopting them, with the possible
exception of Achilleus. With Mr. Mahaffy s suggestion (p. 52) that many
of the Homeric legends may have clustered around some historical basis,
I fully agree; as will appear, further on, from my paper on "Juventus
Mundi."]

[Footnote 12: Les facultes qui engendrent la mythologie sont les memes
que celles qui engendront la philosophie, et ce n'est pas sans raison
que l'Inde et la Grece nous presentent le phenomene de la plus riche
mythologie a cote de la plus profonde metaphysique. "La conception de
la multiplicite dans l'univers, c'est le polytheisme chez les peuples
enfants; c'est la science chez les peuples arrives a l'age mur."--Renan,
Hist. des Langues Semitiques, Tom. I. p. 9.]

[Footnote 13: Cases coming under this head are discussed further on, in
my paper on "Myths of the Barbaric World."]

[Footnote 14: A collection of these interesting legends may be found in
Baring-Gould's "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages," of which work this
paper was originally a review.]

[Footnote 15: See Procopius, De Bello Gothico, IV. 20; Villemarque,
Barzas Breiz, I. 136. As a child I was instructed by an old nurse that
Vas Diemen's Land is the home of ghosts and departed spirits.]

[Footnote 16: Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, Vol. I. p. 1