[36] É. Cartailhac, _Matériaux pour l’histoire de l’homme_, xiii. p. 395. The Magdalenian workmanship on bone was extraordinarily fine. Their bone needles (according to de Mortillet) are much superior to those of the later, even of historical times, down to the Renaissance. The Romans never possessed needles comparable with them. [37] G. de Mortillet, _Origines de la Chasse et de la Pêche_ (Paris, 1890), p. 222. Our learned author nods. If the seals had _killed_ the trout, it would not have floated “belly up,” but instantly down their bellies. [38] S. Reinach, _Répertoire de l’Art Quaternaire_ (Paris, 1913), p. 156, which is a complete summary of the various finds in excavations, etc. See p. 88 for a seal, and p. 114 for a fine representation from Laugerie Basse of two fish meeting. [39] Fishermen in Malay, _while they are at sea_, studiously avoid mentioning the names of birds or beasts: all animals are called “cheweh,” a meaningless word, which is believed not to be understood by the creatures (J. G. Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, second edition, 1900, vol. i. p. 460). So, too, fishermen from some villages on the N.E. coast of Scotland never pronounce, _while at sea_, under penalty of poor catches, certain words such as “minister,” “salmon,” “trout,” “swine,” etc. The first, poor fellow! “que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?” is invariably referred to as “the man with the black ‘guyte’” (_Ibid._, p. 453). [40] _Acad. des Sciences_, Paris, séance du 22 juin, 1903. [41] The pictured hook is of special interest. The head, considered by Krause that of a wizard, was intended to endow the hook with an extra power of magic. [42] F. Boaz, _6th Report on N.W. Tribes of Canada_, p. 45. [43] E. Aymonier, _Cochinchene Françoise_, No. 16, p. 157, as quoted by Frazer. _Ibid._ [44] S. Reinach, _L’Anthropologie_ (1903), p. 257. [45] Such is the solution which Bates (_Ancient Egyptian Fishing_, 1917, p. 205) offers of the presence in the pre-dynastic Egyptian graves of the numerous slate palettes bearing the profile of a fish or beast. [46] Frazer, _Golden Bough_. _Taboo_, Part ii. (London, 1911), p. 191 ff. [47] W. H. Dall, “Social Life among the Aborigines,” _The American Naturalist_ (1878), vol. xii. J. G. Frazer, _Folk Lore in the Old Testament_ (London, 1918), vol. iii. p. 123.