_ 117 Arctic Papers for the Expedition of 1875_ (R. Geogr. Soc.), p. 274. 118 Azara, _Voyages dans l’Amérique Méridionale_, ii. 137. 119 Charlevoix, _Histoire du Paraguay_, i. 74. 120 W. A. Henry, “Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Bataklanden,” in _Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde_, xvii. 23 sq. 121 Herodotus, iv. 173; Aulus Gellius, xvi. 11. 122 Harris, _Highlands of Ethiopia_, i. 352. 123 Brough Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, i. 457 _sq._; cp. _id._ ii. 270; _Journ. Anthrop. Inst._ xiii. p. 194 _note_. 124 Denzil C. J. Ibbetson, _Settlement Report of the Panipat Tahsil and Karnal Parganah of the Karnal District_, p. 154. 125 Stephen Powers, _Tribes of California_, p. 328. 126 Sébillot, _Coutumes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne_, p. 302 sq. 127 Mannhardt, _A. W. F._ p. 85. 128 Gill, _Myths and Songs of the South Pacific_, p. 35. 129 See for examples E. B. Tylor, _Primitive Culture_,2 ii. 131 _sqq._ 130 Pausanias, ii. 24, 1. κάτοχος ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ γίνεται is the expression. 131 Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxviii. 147. Pausanias (vii. 25, 13) mentions the draught of bull’s blood as an ordeal to test the chastity of the priestess. Doubtless it was thought to serve both purposes. 132 Caldwell, “On demonolatry in Southern India,” _Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay_, i. 101 _sq._ 133 J. G. F. Riedel, “De Minahasa in 1825,” _Tijdschrift v. Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde_, xviii. 517 _sq._ Cp. N. Graafland, _De Minahassa_, i. 122; Dumont D’Urville, _Voyage autour du Monde et à la recherche de La Perouse_, v. 443. 134 F. J. Mone, _Geschichte des Heidenthums im nördlichen Europa_, i. 188. 135 Biddulph, _Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh_, p. 96. For other instances of priests or representatives of the deity drinking the warm blood of the victim, cp. _Tijdschrift v. Nederlandsch Indië_, 1849, p. 395; Oldfield, _Sketches from Nipal_, ii. 296 _sq._; _Asiatic Researches_, iv. 40, 41, 50, 52 (8vo. ed.); Paul Soleillet, _L’Afrique Occidentale_, p. 123 _sq._ To snuff up the savour of the sacrifice was similarly supposed to produce inspiration. Tertullian, _Apologet._ 23. 136 Biddulph, _Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh_, p. 97. 137 Lucian, _Bis accus._, I; Tzetzes, _Schol. ad Lycophr._, 6. 138 Vambery, _Das Türkenvolk_, p. 158. 139 Plutarch, _De defect. oracul._ 46, 49.