[99.1] For examples of the attempt to multiply edible plants in this
fashion, see _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, ii. 97 _sqq._
The reported examples of similar attempts to assist the multiplication
of animals seem to be rarer. For some instances see George Catlin,
_O-Kee-Pa, a Religious Ceremony and other Customs of the Mandans_
(London, 1867), Folium Reservatum, pp. i.-iii. (multiplication of
buffaloes); _History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains
Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri_ (London, 1905), i. 209
_sq._ (multiplication or attraction of buffaloes); Maximilian Prinz zu
Wied, _Reise in das innere Nord-America_ (Coblentz, 1839-1841), ii.
181, 263-267 (multiplication or attraction of buffaloes); _Reports of
the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits_, v. (1904)
p. 271 (multiplication of turtles); J. Roscoe, “Further Notes on the
Manners and Customs of the Baganda,” _Journal of the Anthropological
Institute_, xxxii. (1902) p. 53; _id._, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911),
p. 144 (multiplication of edible green locusts); S. Gason, in _Journal
of the Anthropological Institute_, xxiv. (1895) p. 174 (multiplication
of edible rats); _id._, “The Dieyerie Tribe,” in _Native Tribes of
South Australia_ (Adelaide, 1879), p. 280 (multiplication of dogs and
snakes).
[100.1] I have given my reasons for thinking so elsewhere (_The Magic
Art and the Evolution of Kings_, i. 220 _sqq._).
[103.1] Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911), p. 262.
[103.2] Rev. J. Roscoe, _op. cit._ p. 55. Compare _id._, “Further
Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Baganda,” _Journal of the
Anthropological Institute_, xxxii. (1902) p. 39.
[103.3] Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_, p. 262.
[103.4] Rev. J. Roscoe, _op. cit._ pp. 72, 102.
[104.1] Cullen Gouldsbury and Hubert Sheane, _The Great Plateau of
Northern Rhodesia_ (London, 1911), pp. 57, 178.
[104.2] Henri A. Junod, “Les Conceptions Physiologiques des Bantou
Sud-Africains et leurs Tabous,” _Revue d’Ethnographie et de
Sociologie_, i. (1910) p. 150; _id._, _The Life of a South African
Tribe_ (Neuchatel, 1912-1913), i. 38 _sq._
[105.1] Henri A. Junod, “Les Conceptions Physiologiques des Bantous
Sud-Africains et leurs Tabous,” _Revue d’Ethnographie et de
Sociologie_, i. (1910) p. 150; _id._, _The Life of a South African
Tribe_, i. 194 _sq._
[105.2] C. W. Hobley, “Kikuyu Customs and Beliefs,” _Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute_, xl. (1910) p. 433. A similar state
of ceremonial pollution (_thahu_) is supposed by the Akikuyu to arise
on many other occasions, which are enumerated by Mr. Hobley (_op.
cit._ pp. 428-440). See further below, p. 115, note 5.
[105.3] H. S. Stannus, “Notes on some Tribes of British Central
Africa,” _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute_, xl. (1910)
p. 305. Compare R. C. F. Maugham, _Zambezia_ (London, 1910), p. 326.
[105.4] Max Weiss, _Die Völkerstämme im Norden Deutsch-Ostafrikas_
(Berlin, 1910), p. 385.
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