[267] This is Mrs. Finn’s rendering of it; but it should be “I _sacrificed_ him with my teeth.” The Arabic word is obviously _dhabaha_ (ذبح), identical with the Hebrew _zabhakh_ (זָבַח) “to sacrifice.” [268] Lang’s _Custom and Myth_, p. 95 f.; also Grimm’s _Household Tales_, p. lxviii. [269] Cox and Jones’s _Pop. Rom. of Mid. Ages_, p. 310. [270] Lettsom’s _Nibel. Lied_, p. 373. [271] Thompson’s _Alcedo’s Geog. and Hist. Dict. of America_, I., 408; cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, VI., 19. [272] _Travels in Nubia_, p. 356. [273] _Trans. of Ethn. Soc._ II., 246, and Angas’s _Austr. and New Zeal._ I., 73, 227, 462, cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, III., 26. [274] See _Dict. Méd. et Chir. Prat._ Art. “Transfusion”; also Roussel’s _Transf. of Blood_, pp. 78-88. [275] _Transf. of Blood_, p. 19. [276] See page 20, _supra_. [277] _Thro. Dark Cont._, I., 123-131. [278] Thompson’s _Thro. Masâi Land_, p. 430. [279] _Ibid._, p. 452. [280] Shooter’s _Kafirs of Natal_, notes, p. 399. [281] H. A. L., in _Sport in Many Lands_. [282] See _Trans. Royal Asiat. Soc._, I., 69; cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, V., 26 f. [283] Edwards’s _Hist. of Brit. West Ind._, I., 47; cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, VI., 36. [284] Shooter’s _Kafirs of Natal_, p. 216. [285] See Tylor’s _Prim. Cult._, II., 382, referring to Bastian’s _Psychologie_. [286] See Anderson’s _Norse Mythol._, p. 247. [287] _Ibid._, p. 380; Lettsom’s _Nibel. Lied_, Preface, p. ix.; Cox and Jones’s _Pop. Rom. of Mid. Ages_, p. 254 f. [288] _Pop. Rom. of Mid. Ages_, p. 260; also _Nib. Lied_, p. x. [289] See Bancroft’s _Native Races_, III., 150; Brinton’s _Myths of New World_, p. 274 f.; Jackson’s _Alaska_, p. 103 f. [290] Charles F. Oldham’s “Native Faiths in the Himalayah,” in _The Contemporary Review_ for April, 1885. [291] Napier’s _Folk-Lore of the West of Scotland_, p. 111 f. [292] Farrer’s _Prim. Man. and Cust._, p. 276 f. [293] Lettsom’s _Nibel. Lied_, p. 183; also Cox and Jones’s _Pop. Rom. of Mid. Ages_, p. 47 f. [294] Benson’s _Remarkable Trials_, p. 94, note. [295] Cobbett’s _State Trials_, XI., 1371; cited in _Anecdotes of Omens and Superstitions_, p. 47 f. [296] _Superstition and Force_, pp. 315-323. [297] Cited from Gamal. ben Pedahzur’s _Book of Jewish Ceremonies_, p. 11. [298] _Religion in China_, pp. 23, 32. [299] _The Religions of China_, p. 55. [300] Dr. Legge here seems to use the word “sacrifice” in the light of a single meaning which attaches to it. There is surely no incompatibility in the terms “banquet” and “sacrifice,” as we find their two-fold idea in the banquet-sacrifice of the Mosaic peace-offering (see Lev. 7 : 11-15). [301] _The Relig. of China_, Notes to Lect. I., p. 66. [302] _The Mid. King._, II., 194. See also Martin’s _The Chinese_, p. 258. [303] _The Relig. of China_, p. 53 f. Gray thinks differently (_China_, I., 87.)