[251.1] Koch-Grünberg, ii. 173. [251.2] Frazer, _J. A. I._, xv. 99, citing Speke, _Journal_, 542. [251.3] Dorsa, 91. [252.1] _Int. Arch._, xiii., Suppl., 76. [252.2] _Rep. B. E._, xviii. 315. [253.1] Frazer, _Balder_, i. 22 _sqq._; Hartland, _Prim. Pat._, i. 89 _sqq._ [253.2] Frazer, _l.c._, 45, 46. [253.3] Goddard, _Univ. Cal. Pub._, i. 72. [254.1] Frazer, _Balder_, i. 36. [255.1] Boaz, _Brit. Ass. Rep._, 1890, 575. [255.2] _Tylor Essays_, 110, citing Riedel, _Deutsche Geographische Blätter_, x. 286. [256.1] _S. Afr. F. L. Journ._, i. 51. [256.2] See for example the cases collected by Dr Frazer, _J. A. I._, xv. 84, 85 [257.1] _Supra_, p. 209. [257.2] _Int. Arch._, xiii., Suppl. 72. [257.3] _Jesup. Exped._, vi. 113; Riedel, 307; Clozel, 363. [257.4] _Journ. Am. F. L._, xvi. 137. [258.1] Frobenius, _Heiden-Neger_, 408. Compare the widows’ dance among the Wawanga in the Elgon District, British East Africa (_J. A. I._, xliii. 36). Among the Ibo-speaking people of Nigeria, at Aguku, the women of the quarter in which a death has occurred march round at midnight and sing (Thomas, _Ibo_, i. 80). [259.1] Weeks, 104, 321. [259.2] Kruijt, 272. [259.3] Striking examples will be found in von den Steinen, 506; and Smirnov, i. 143, 366. [260.1] _Rev. Hist. Rel._, lx. 358. [260.2] Prof. E. Monseur, _ibid._, liii. 290 _sqq._ [261.1] Mariner, i. 311. [261.2] Alldridge, 119. [261.3] _J. A. I._, xxxii. 47. [261.4] Brand and Ellis, ii. 187 note. [261.5] Clozel, 179. [262.1] Codrington, 281. [262.2] _Rep. B. E._, v. 111, translating _Jesuit Relations_. [262.3] _Int. Arch._, xiii., Suppl. 72. [262.4] _Globus_, lxxii. 22. [262.5] Spencer and Gillen, _N. T._, 521. [262.6] Deut. xiv. 1. [262.7] _Int. Arch._, xiii., Suppl. 71. Sir Everard im Thurn throws doubt upon this as a funeral rite (_F. L._, xii. 141). [263.1] Williams, _Fiji_, 169. [263.2] _Dix-neuvième Siècle_, 26th December 1890. [263.3] _Int. Arch._, xiii., Suppl. 72. [263.4] _Ibid._, 77. [264.1] Father Alex. Arnoux, _Anthropos_, vii. 288. [266.1] Herod., i. 199; Strabo, xvi. 1, 20. Further details are supplied by the Epistle of Jeremy appended to the apocryphal Book of Baruch. [267.1] Justin, xviii. 5. [267.2] Socrates, _Hist. Eccl._, i. 18. [267.3] Sozomen, _Hist. Eccl._, v. 10. [267.4] Ælian, _Var. Hist._, iv. 1. Dr Farnell (_Greece and Bab._, 271 note, 273 _sqq._) considers that the Lydian practice was identical with that of the Armenians, referred to just below. This is possible. The lady who commemorated at Tralles her dedication for this purpose (see below, p. 273) seems to have been a Lydian. In either case it was a religious practice, though Ælian does not explicitly say so. His account in fact is vague. [267.5] Herod., i. 93. [267.6] Strabo, xi. 14, 16. [270.1] Lucian, _De Dea Syria_, 6.