[163.1] Vinson, 20. According to this story there were two cabin-boys, one of whom overheard the plot and the other struck the blow, but this appears to be a literary embellishment. [163.2] Strackerjan, i. 324, 325; Hansen, 38. The Norse tale (by Asbjoernsen) is referred to, _Mélusine_, ii. 201. I have not seen it. Analogous tale in Ireland, _Ant._, xlv. 371. [163.3] _Tylor Essays_, 138. Roscher (_Ephialtes_, 38) thinks it was “a quite obvious nightmare.” [164.1] Gregor, 66. [164.2] Gregor, _loc. cit._ [166.1] Thorpe, _N. Myth._, ii. 78. [167.1] Hibbert, _A Description of the Shetland Islands_ (Edinburgh, 1822), 569; _Zeits. des Ver._, ii. 15, 17; Rogers, 218; Lehmann-Filhés, ii. 16; Maurer, 173. [168.1] Natesa Sastri, 148. [168.2] _Bibl. Trad. Pop. Espan._, i. 187 [168.3] Castrén, 172. [168.4] Boas, _Ind. Sagen_, 86. [169.1] Miller, _Scenes and Leg._, 287. [170.1] Shakespear, _Lushei_, 66. [170.2] Grimm, _Teut. Myth._, iii. 924. [171.1] Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 285. [171.2] Pausanias, i. 4, 5; Ovid, _Metam._, xi. 90; Herod., viii. 138; Ælian, _Var. Hist._, iii. 18. [171.3] _Iliad_, v. 370 _sqq._ [172.1] _R. E. E. S._, i. 338. [172.2] As an example the Nattu Malayans of Cochin in the south of India may be cited. “When questioned as to their ideas of gods, they say that they are like men themselves, but invisible, yet all-powerful” (Anantha Krishna, i. 34). [173.1] Herod., ii. 122. Gods, like men, were addicted to gambling. According to Plutarch (_De Iside_), Hermes in Egyptian legend played with the moon and won the seventieth part of each of her light periods, wherewith he made the last five days of the year and added them to the calendar. [173.2] Herod., vii. 35. [173.3] Bérenger-Feraud, _Superst._, i. 473. The author has collected in the chapter from which this is cited numerous other instances of the punishment of the recalcitrant god. [173.4] Herod., ii. 111. [174.1] Williams, _Burmah_, 91. [174.2] _Ind. Cens. Rep._, 1911, x. 61. [174.3] Herod., iv. 94. Rohde (_Psyche_, ii. 28 note) suggests that the personage against whom the arrows and threats were aimed was not strictly a god, but an evil spirit or a magician. This, however, does not follow. Philo (_l.c._) states that Xerxes, when his bridge across the Hellespont was destroyed, aimed his arrows at the sun, and regards the action with pious horror as a symptom of insanity. [175.1] Herod., iv. 184. [175.2] _J. A. I._, xxxvi. 51. [175.3] Moffat, 261, 265. [175.4] Chapman, i. 213. The word translated by Chapman as “God” is doubtless Morimo. _Cf._ _ibid._, 46, “All Bechuanas believe in God (Morimo), whom they laud or execrate as good or bad luck attends them.” [176.1] Callaway, _Rel. Syst._, 404. [176.2] Hahn, 46, 51, 59, 94. _Cf._ 99, where the practice of the Urjangkut, a tribe of Black Tartars, to scold the thunder and lightning is cited from Bastian.