597 The reader may observe how closely the taboos laid upon mourners resemble those laid upon kings. From what has gone before the reason of the resemblance is obvious. _ 598 Panjab Notes and Queries_, iii. No. 282. 599 Walter Gregor, _The Folk-lore of the North-East of Scotland_, p. 206. 600 This is expressly said in _Panjab Notes and Queries_, iii. No. 846. On iron as a protective charm see also Liebrecht, _Gervasius von Tilbury_, p. 99 _sqq._; _id._, _Zur Volkskunde_, p. 311; L. Strackerjan, _Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogthum Oldenburg_, § 233; Wattke, _Der deutsche Volksaberglaube_2, § 414 _sq._; Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, i. 140; Mannhardt, _Der Baumkultus_, 132 _note_. 601 Bastian, _Die Völker des ostlichen Asien_, i. 136. 602 E. Gerard, _The Land beyond the Forest_, i. 312; W. Schmidt, _Das Jahr und seine Tage in Meinung und Brauch der Romänen Siebenbürgens_, p. 40. 603 J. H. Gray, _China_, i. 288. 604 W. H. Dall, _Alaska and its Resources_, p. 146; _id._ in _American Naturalist_, xii. 7. 605 Jo. Meletius, “De religione et sacrificiis veterum Borussorum,” in _De Russorum Muscovitarum et Tartarorum religione, sacrificiis, nuptiarum, funerum ritu_ (Spires, 1582), p. 263; Hartknoch, _Alt und neues Preussen_ (Frankfort and Leipzig, 1684), p. 187 _sq._ 606 B. F. Matthes, _Bijdragen tot de Ethnologie van Zuid-Celebes_, p. 136. 607 Tettau und Temme, _Die Volkssagen Ostpreussens, Litthauens und Westpreussens_, p. 285; Grimm, _Deutsche Mythologie_,4 iii. 454; cp. _id._ pp. 441, 469; Grohmann, _Aberglauben und Gebräuche aus Böhmen und Mähren_, p. 198. 608 Plutarch, _Quaest. Rom._ 110; Aulus Gellius, x. 15, 12. 609 J. Kubary, _Die socialen Einrichtungen der Pelauer_ (Berlin, 1885), p. 126 _sq._ 610 F. J. Wiedemann, _Aus dem inneren und äussern Leben der Ehsten_ (St. Petersburg, 1876), pp. 448, 478. 611 James Adair, _History of the American Indians_, pp. 134, 117. 612 E. Petitot, _Monographie des Dènè-Dindjié_, p. 76. 613 Leviticus xvii. 10-14. The Hebrew word translated “life” in the English version of verse 11 means also “soul” (marginal note in the Revised Version). Cp. Deuteronomy xii. 23-25. 614 Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ v. 79; cp. _id._ on _Aen._ iii. 67. 615 J. Wellhausen, _Reste Arabischen Heidentumes_, p. 217. 616 A. Goudswaard, _De Papoewa’s van de Geelvinksbaai_ (Schiedam, 1863), p. 77. 617 Hamilton’s “Account of the East Indies,” in Pinkerton’s _Voyages and Travels_, viii. 469. Cp. W. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, i. 349, _note_ 2. 618 De la Loubere, _A New Historical Account of the Kingdom of Siam_ (London, 1693), p. 104 _sq._ 619 Pallegoix, _Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam_, i. 271, 365 _sq._ 620 Marco Polo, trans. by Col. H. Yule (2d ed. 1875), i. 335.