[110.1] P. A. Talbot, “The Buduma of Lake Chad,” _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute_, xli. (1911) p. 247. Chapter V Notes [112.1] Humboldt, _Voyage aux Régions Equinoxiales_, viii. 273. [113.1] Alcide d’Orbigny, _Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale_, ii. (Paris and Strasburg, 1839-1843) pp. 99 _sq._ As to the thieving propensities of the Patagonians, the author tells us that “they do not steal among themselves, it is true; but their parents, from their tender infancy, teach them to consider theft from the enemy as the base of their education, as an accomplishment indispensable for every one who would succeed in life, as a thing ordained by the Evil Spirit, so much so that when they are reproached for a theft, they always say that Achekenat-Kanet commanded them so to do” (_op. cit._ p. 104). Achekenat-Kanet is the supernatural being who, under various names, is revered or dreaded by all the Indian tribes of Patagonia. Sometimes he appears as a good and sometimes as a bad spirit. See A. d’Orbigny, _op. cit._ ii. 87. [114.1] Plato, _Laws_, ix. 8, pp. 865 d-866 a; Demosthenes, xxiii. pp. 643 _sq._; Hesychius, _s.v._ ἀπενιαυτισμός. [114.2] Aeschylus, _Choëphor._ 1021 _sqq._, _Eumenides_, 85 _sqq._; Euripides, _Iphig. in Taur._ 940 _sqq._; Pausanias, ii. 31. 8, viii. 34. 1-4. [114.3] Demosthenes, xxiii. pp. 643 _sq._ [114.4] Demosthenes, xxiii. pp. 645 _sq._; Aristotle, _Constitution of Athens_, 57; Pausanias, i. 28. 11; Pollux, viii. 120; Helladius, quoted by Photius, _Bibliotheca_, p. 535 a, lines 28 _sqq._ ed. I. Bekker (Berlin, 1824). [115.1] Plato, _Laws_, ix. 8, p. 866 C D. [115.2] Polybius, iv. 17-21. [115.3] Plutarch, _Praecept. ger. reipub._ xvii. 9. [115.4] Pausanias, ii. 31. 8. [115.5] C. W. Hobley, “Kikuyu Customs and Beliefs,” _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute_, xl. (1910) p. 431. The nature of the ceremonial pollution (_thahu_) thus incurred is explained by Mr. Hobley (_op. cit._ p. 428) as follows: “_Thahu_, sometimes called _ngahu_, is the word used for a condition into which a person is believed to fall if he or she accidentally becomes the victim of certain circumstances or intentionally performs certain acts which carry with them a kind of ill luck or curse. A person who is _thahu_ becomes emaciated and ill or breaks out into eruptions or boils, and if the _thahu_ is not removed will probably die. In many cases this undoubtedly happens by the process of auto-suggestion, as it never occurs to the Kikuyu mind to be sceptical on a matter of this kind. It is said that the _thahu_ condition is caused by the _ngoma_ or spirits of departed ancestors, but the process does not seem to have been analysed any further.” See also above, pp. 93, 105.