The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
410 B. F. Matthes, _Bijdragen tot de Ethnologie van Zuid-Celebes_, p.
33; _id._, _Over de Bissoes of heidensche priesters en priesteressen
der Boeginezen_, p. 9 _sq._; _id._, _Makassaarsch-Hollandsch
Woordenboek_, _svv._ _Koêrróe_ and _soemāñgá_, pp. 41, 569. Of these
two words, the former means the sound made in calling fowls, and the
latter means the soul. The expression for the ceremonies described
in the text is _ápakoêrróe soemāñgá_.
411 Shway Yoe, _The Burman, his Life and Notions_, ii. 100.
412 J. L. Wilson, _West Afrika_, p. 162 _sq._ (German translation).
413 J. G. F. Riedel, _De sluik-en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en
Papua_, p. 267. For detention of sleeper’s soul by spirits and
consequent illness, see also Mason, quoted in Bastian’s _Die Völker
des östlichen Asien_, ii. 387 _note_.
_ 414 Indian Antiquary_, 1878, vii. 273; Bastian, _Völkerstämme am
Brahmaputra_, p. 127. Similar story (lizard form of soul not
mentioned) told by Hindus, _Panjab Notes and Queries_, iii. No. 679.
415 E. Gerard, _The Land beyond the Forest_, ii. 27 _sq._ A similar
story is told in Holland, J. W. Wolf, _Nederlandsche Sagen_, No.
251, p. 344 _sq._ The stories of Hermotimus and King Gunthram belong
to the same class. In the latter the king’s soul comes out of his
mouth as a small reptile. The soul of Aristeas issued from his mouth
in the form of a raven. Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ vii. § 174; Lucian,
_Muse. Encom._ 7; Paulus, _Hist. Langobardorum_, iii. 34. In an East
Indian story of the same type the sleeper’s soul issues from his
nose in the form of a cricket. Wilken in _De Indische Gids_, June
1884, p. 940. In a Swabian story a girl’s soul creeps out of her
mouth in the form of a white mouse. Birlinger, _Volksthümliches aus
Schwaben_, i. 303.
416 Shway Yoe, _The Burman_, ii. 103; Bastian, _Die Völker des östlichen
Asien_, ii. 389; Blumentritt, “Der Ahnencultus und die religiösen
Anschauungen der Malaien des Philippinen-Archipels,” in
_Mittheilungen d. Wiener Geogr. Gesellschaft_, 1882, p. 209; Riedel,
_De sluik-en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua_, p. 440;
id., “Die Landschaft Dawan oder West-Timor,” in _Deutsche
Geographische Blätter_, x. 280.
_ 417 Panjab Notes and Queries_, iii. No. 530.
418 Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 117 _sq._
419 Bastian, _Die Seele und ihre Erscheinungwesen in der Ethnographie_,
p. 36.
_ 420 Pantschatantra_, Benfey, p. 124 _sqq._
_ 421 Katha Sarit Ságara_, trans. Tawney, i. 21 _sq._
422 E. B. Cross, “On the Karens,” in _Journal of the American Oriental
Society_, iv. 311.
423 A. R. M’Mahon, _The Karens of the Golden Chersonese_, p. 318.
424 F. Mason, “Physical Character of the Karens,” in _Journal of the
Asiatic Society of Bengal_, 1866, pt. ii. p. 28 _sq._
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