467 [Aristotle] _Mirab. Auscult._ 145 (157); _Geoponica_, xv. 1. In the latter passage, for κατάγει ἑαυτήν we must read κ. αὐτόν, an emendation necessitated by the context, and confirmed by the passage of Damīrī quoted and translated by Bochart, _Hierozoicon_, i. c. 833, “_cum ad lunam calcat umbram canis, qui supra tectura est, canis ad eam [scil. hyaenam] decidit, et ea illum devorat_.” Cp. W. Robertson Smith, _The Religion of the Semites_, i. 122. 468 Pausanias, viii. 38, 6; Polybius, xvi. 12, 7; Plutarch, _Quaest. Graec._ 39. 469 B. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben der Neugriechen_, p. 196 _sq._ 470 Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 127. 471 W. Schmidt, _Das Jahr und seine Tage in Meinung und Brauch der Romänen Siebenbürgens_, p. 27; E. Gerard, _The Land beyond the Forest_, ii. 17 _sq._ 472 E. H. Mann, _Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands_, p. 94. 473 Williams, _Fiji_, i. 241. 474 James Chalmers, _Pioneering in New Guinea_ (London, 1887), p. 170. 475 Sahagun, _Histoire générale des choses de la Nouvelle-Espagne_ (Paris, 1880), p. 314. The Chinese hang brass mirrors over the idols in their houses, because it is thought that evil spirits entering the house and seeing themselves in the mirrors will be scared away (_China Review_, ii. 164). 476 Callaway, _Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus_, p. 342. 477 Arbousset et Daumas, _Voyage d’exploration au Nord-est de la Colonie du Cap de Bonne-Espérance_, p. 12. 478 Codrington, “Religious Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia,” in _Journ. Anthrop. Instit._ x. 313. _ 479 Fragmenta Philosoph. Graec._ ed. Mullach, i. 510; Artemidorus, _Onirocr._ ii. 7; _Laws of Manu_, iv. 38. 480 See above, p. 125 _sq._ 481 Wattke, _Der deutsche Volksaberglaube_,2 § 726. _ 482 Ib._ _ 483 Folk-lore Journal_, iii. 281; Dyer, _English Folk-lore_, p. 109; J. Napier, _Folk-lore, or Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland_, p. 60; Ellis, _History of Madagascar_, i. 238; _Revue d’Ethnographie_, v. 215. _ 484 Punjab Notes and Queries_, ii. 906. _ 485 Folk-lore Journal_, vi. 145 _sq._; _Panjab Notes and Queries_, ii., No. 378. _ 486 Journ. Anthrop. Inst._ xv. 82 _sqq._ 487 Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 117. The objection, however, may be merely Puritanical. Professor W. Robertson Smith informs me that the peculiarities of the Raskolniks are largely due to exaggerated Puritanism. 488 A. Simson, “Notes on the Jivaros and Canelos Indians,” in _Journ. Anthrop. Inst._ ix. 392. 489 J. Thomson, _Through Masai Land_, p. 86. 490 Maximilian Prinz zu Wied, _Reise in das Innere Nord-Amerika_, i. 417. _ 491 Ib._ ii. 166. 492 “A far-off Greek Island,” _Blackwood’s Magazine_, February 1886, p. 235. 493 Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 117.