[18] James Adair, _History of the American Indians_ (London, 1775), p. 382; _Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner_ (London, 1830), p. 123. As to the taboos to which warriors are subject see _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 157 _sqq._ [19] Etienne Aymonier, _Notes sur le Laos_ (Saigon, 1885), p. 26. [20] _Die gestritgelte Rockenphilosophie_*[5] (Chemnitz, 1759), pp. 586 _sqq._ [21] Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1899), pp. 364, 370 _sqq._, 629; _id., Across Australia_ (London, 1912), ii. 280, 285 _sq._ [22] C.G. Seligmann, M.D., _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_ (Cambridge, 1910), pp. 589-599. [23] George Brown, D.D., _Melanesians and Polynesians_ (London, 1910), pp. 60 _sq._, 64. As to the Duk-duk society, see below, vol. ii. pp. 246 _sq._ [24] John Keast Lord, _The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia_ (London, 1866), ii. 237. [25] Edwin James, _Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains_ (London, 1823), ii. 47; Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, "Omaha Sociology," _Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_ (Washington, 1884), p. 226. [26] James Adair, _History of the American Indians_ (London, 1775), pp. 161-163. [27] (Sir) Henry Babington Smith, in _Folk-lore_, v. (1894) p. 340. [28] Miss C.F. Gordon Cumming, _In the Hebrides_ (London, 1883), p. 211. [29] W. Gregor, "Quelques coutumes du Nord-est du Comté d'Aberdeen," _Revue des Traditions populaires_, iii. (1888) p. 485 B. Compare _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, i. 158 _sq._ [30] R. Brough Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_ (Melbourne and London, 1878), i. 450. [31] E. Gerard, _The Land beyond the Forest_ (Edinburgh and London, 1888), ii. 7. [32] F. Grabowsky, "Der Distrikt Dusson Timor in Südost-Borneo und seine Bewohner," _Das Ausland_, 1884, No. 24, p. 470. [33] _Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall_, edited by Prof. J.E. Nourse (Washington, 1879), pp. 110 _sq._ [34] See _Taboo and Perils of the Soul_, pp. 207 _sqq._ [35] Walter E. Roth, _Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines_ (Brisbane and London, 1897), p. 156, § 265. The custom of killing a man by pointing a bone or stick at him, while the sorcerer utters appropriate curses, is common among the tribes of Central Australia; but amongst them there seems to be no objection to place the bone or stick on the ground; on the contrary, an Arunta wizard inserts the bone or stick in the ground while he invokes death and destruction on his enemy. See Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1899), pp. 534 _sqq.; id., Northern Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1904), pp. 455 _sqq._ [36] Hugh Low, _Sarawak_ (London, 1848), pp. 145 _sq._ [37] Pliny, _Naturalis Historia_ xxviii. 33 _sq._