[222] Mr. Eden Phillpotts mentions in one of his Cornish stories exactly this conception. Rags were offered. "Just a rag tored off a petticoat or some such thing. They hanged 'em up around about on the thorn bushes, to shaw as they'd 'a' done more for the good saint if they'd had the power."--_Lying Prophets_, 60. [223] I gave an example of this false classification of folklore in accord with its apparent modern association in my preface to _Denham Tracts_, ii. p. ix. The left-leg stocking divination is not associated with dress, but with the left-hand as opposed to the right-hand augury, and I pointed out that the district of the Roman wall, the _locus_ of the Denham tracts, thus preserves the luck of the left, believed in by the Romans, in opposition to the luck of the right believed in by the Teutons. See Schrader, _Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples_, 253-7. [224] I elaborated this plan of comparative analysis in a report to the British Association at Liverpool, in 1896 (see pp. 626-656), illustrating it from the fire customs of Britain. [225] _Archæological Review_, ii. 163-166; _cf._ the Rev. J. Macdonald in _Folklore_, iii. 338. [226] _Athenæum_, 29th December, 1883; _Archæologia_, vol. l. p. 213. [227] See MacCulloch's _Childhood of Fiction_, chap. xiii., where this distinction is noted, though its significance is not pointed out. [228] Dr. Rivers has dealt with a very similar case of dual origin in connection with bride capture, see _Journ. Roy. Asiatic Soc._, 1907, p. 624. [229] Schrader's _Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples_, 422. [230] Robertson Smith's _Religion of the Semites_, 397. [231] Monier Williams, _Indian Wisdom_, pp. 29-31. The word-equations for sacrifice are given by Schrader, _op. cit._, 130, 415. [232] _Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal_, xxxiv. p. 7. On the influence of the aboriginal races _cf._ Monier Williams, _Indian Wisdom_, 312-313; Steel and Temple's _Wide Awake Stories_, 395; Campbell, _Tales of West Highlands_, l. p. xcviii. [233] Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, i. p. 271. [234] H. H. Wilson, _Religion of the Hindus_, ii. 289. I compare this with the custom of the cow following the coffin mentioned by Mannhardt, _Die Gotterwelt_, 320, and the soul shot or gift of a cow at death recorded by Brand, ii. 248. [235] _Cf._ Olaus Magnus, pp. 168, 169, for the significant Norse ceremony. [236] Spenser, _View of the State of Ireland_, 1595 (Morley reprint), 73. CHAPTER III PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS