[225] See Richard Andree’s remarks on “die Masken im Kultus,” in his _Ethnographische Parallelen_, _Neue Folge_, p. 109, _sq._ [226] Jacob Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_, vol. i., p. 48, _sq._ [227] A. B. Meyer, in _Globus_, Bd. lxvii., p. 334. [228] The terms “honorific” and “piacular” were, I believe, first suggested by Dr. W. Robertson Smith. They are very appropriate. [229] Holtzmann, _Deutsche Mythologie_, p. 232. [230] Oviedo, _Historia de las Indias_, lib. x., cap. xi. [231] Balboa, _Histoire du Perou_, pp. 125-7. [232] Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, vol. ii., p. 31. [233] Sahagun, _Historia de la Nueva España_, lib. i. [234] Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, in _An. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology_, vol. xi., p. 132. [235] Dorsey, _Siouan Cults_, p. 511. [236] A. d’Orbigny, _L’Homme Américain_, tom. i., p. 237. [237] Examples in my _Native Calendar of Central America_, p. 18. It was a favourite amulet among the Crees (Mackenzie, _Hist. of the Fur Trade_, p. 86). [238] Achelis, _Moderne Völkerkunde_, p. 370; Man, in _Jour. Anthrop. Inst._, vol. xii., p. 172. [239] Charlevoix, _Hist. de la Nouvelle France_, ch. vi. Sprinkling the new-born child as a religious ceremony prevailed in New Zealand and throughout Polynesia. (Fornander, _The Polynesian Race_, vol. i., p. 236.) [240] Cogolludo, _Historia de Yucatan_, lib. iv., cap. vi. The same belief prevailed in some African tribes; see Achelis, _Moderne Völkerkunde_, p. 393. [241] H. R. Schoolcraft, _Oneóta_, pp. 331, 456. [242] _Notices of East Florida by a Recent Traveller_, p. 79. [243] Gregg, _Commerce of the Prairies_, vol. ii., p. 271. [244] Examples in E. S. Hartland’s _Science of Fairy Tales_, p. 309. [245] R. Andree, _Ethnographische Parallelen_, p. 177. [246] The _Bora_ has been often described, by no one better than Mr. A. W. Howitt in _Jour. Anthrop. Inst._, vol. vii., p. 242, _sq._, and vol. xiv., p. 306, _sq._ [247] J. G. Kohl, _Kitchi Gami_, p. 228. [248] Captain Clark, _Indian Sign Language_, p. 254. D’Orbigny describes the bloody ordeals through which girls in South American tribes were obliged to pass. _L’Homme Américain_, tom. i., pp. 193, 237. [249] Curr, _The Australian Race_ vol. i., pp. 45-50; Palmer, in _Jour. Anthrop. Inst._, vol. xiii., p. 301. [250] See Post, in _Globus_, B. lxvii., s. 274. [251] Palmer, _ubi supra_, p. 301. [252] Lafitau, _Mœurs des Sauvages Américains_, lib. ii., ch. vi. [253] Musters asserts this positively of the Tehuelche and other tribes (_Among the Patagonians_, chap. v.); Captain Clark, whose long experience among our Western tribes constituted him an authority of the first rank, takes pains to correct the notion that _among the natives_ wives are bought, although they are by white men (_Indian Sign Language_, pp. 245-6). It would be easy to multiply references to the same effect. [254] Bleek, _Bushman Folk-lore_, p. 13. [255] _Worship of the Romans_, p. 67.