form".(9) Among the Barotse and Balonda, "while persons are still alive they may enter into lions and alligators".(10) Among the Mayas of Central America "sorcerers could transform themselves into dogs, pigs and other animals; their glance was death to a victim".(11) The Thlinkeets think that their Shamans can metamorphose themselves into animals at pleasure; and a very old raven was pointed out to Mr. C. E. S. Wood as an incarnation of the soul of a Shaman.(12) Sir A. C. Lyall finds a similar belief in flourishing existence in India. The European superstition of the were-wolf is too well known to need description. Perhaps the most curious legend is that told by Giraldus Cambrensis about a man and his wife metamorphosed into wolves by an abbot. They retained human speech, made exemplary professions of Christian faith, and sent for priests when they found their last hours approaching. In an old Norman ballad a girl is transformed into a white doe, and hunted and slain by her brother's hounds. The "aboriginal" peoples of India retain similar convictions. Among the Hos,(13) an old sorcerer called Pusa was known to turn himself habitually into a tiger, and to eat his neighbour's goats, and even their wives. Examples of the power of sorcerers to turn, as with the Gorgon's head, their enemies into stone, are peculiarly common in America.(14) Hearne found that the Indians believed they descended from a dog, who could turn himself into a handsome young man.(15) (1) Vol. i. pp. 309-315. (2) See also M'Lennan on Lykanthropy in Encyclopedia Britannica. (3) Arabian Nights, i. 51. (4) Bancroft, Races of Pacific Coast, i. 740. (5) Brinton, Annals of the Cakchiquels, p. 46. (6) Pinkerton, i. 471. (7) Bleek, Brief Account of Bushman Folk-Lore, pp. 15, 40. (8) English translation of Dobrizhoffer's Abipones, i. 163. (9) Missionary Travels, p. 615. (10) Livingstone, p. 642. (11) Bancroft, ii. (12) Century Magazine, July, 1882. (13) Dalton's Ethnology of Bengal, p. 200. (14) Dorman, pp. 130, 134; Report of Ethnological Bureau, Washington, 1880-81. (15) A Journey, etc., p. 342. Let us recapitulate the powers attributed all over the world, by the lower people, to medicine-men. The medicine-man has all miracles at his command. He rules the sky, he flies into the air, he becomes visible or invisible at will, he can take or confer any form at pleasure, and resume his human shape. He can control spirits, can converse with the dead, and can descend to their abodes.