The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)Frazer, James George
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
360 Alberti, _De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika_ (Amsterdam, 1810),
p. 95. Alberti’s information is repeated by Lichtenstein (_Reisen im
südlichen Afrika_, i. 412), and by Rose (_Four Years in Southern
Africa_, p. 155). The burial of the trunk is also mentioned by Kay,
_l.c._
361 Jerome Becker, _La Vie en Afrique_ (Paris and Brussels, 1887), ii.
298 _sq._ 305.
362 Bastian, _Die deutsche Expedition an der Loango-Küste_, ii. 243.
363 Im Thurn, _Among the Indians of Guiana_, p. 352.
364 Mouhot, _Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China_, i. 252; Moura,
_Le Royaume du Cambodge_, i. 422.
365 Schoolcraft, _Indian Tribes_, v. 420.
366 J. G. Gmelin, _Reise durch Sibirien_, ii. 278.
367 W. Dall, _Alaska and its Resources_, p. 89.
_ 368 Relations des Jésuites_, 1634, p. 24, ed. 1858. Nets are regarded
by the Indians as living creatures who not only think and feel but
also eat, speak, and marry wives. Sagard, _Le Grand Voyage du Pays
des Hurons_, p. 256 (p. 178 _sq._ of the Paris reprint, Librairie
Tross, 1865); S. Hearne, _Journey to the Northern Ocean_, p. 329
_sq._; _Relations des Jésuites_, 1636, p. 109; _ib._ 1639, p. 95;
Charlevoix, _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_, v. 225; Chateaubriand,
_Voyage en Amérique_, p. 140 _sqq._
369 Chateaubriand, _Voyage en Amérique_, pp. 175, 178. They will not let
the blood of beavers fall on the ground, or their luck in hunting
them would be gone. _Relations des Jésuites_, 1633, p. 21. Compare
the rule about not allowing the blood of kings to fall on the
ground, above, vol. i. p. 179 _sqq._
370 Hennepin, _Nouveau voyage d’un pais plus grand que l’Europe_
(Utrecht, 1698), p. 141 _sq._; _Relations des Jésuites_, 1636, p.
109; Sagard, _Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons_, p. 255 (p. 178 of
the Paris reprint). Not quite consistently the Canadian Indians used
to kill every elan they could overtake in the chase, lest any should
escape to warn their fellows (Sagard, _l.c._)
_ 371 Lettres édifiantes et curieuses_, viii. 339.
372 Schoolcraft, _Indian Tribes_, iii. 230.
_ 373 Relations des Jésuites_, 1634, p. 26.
374 Charlevoix, _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_, v. 443.
375 Garcilasso de la Vega, _Royal Commentaries of the Yncas_, First
Part, bk. i. ch. 10, vol. i. p. 49 _sq._, Hakluyt Society. Cp.
_id._, ii. p. 148.
_ 376 Relations des Jésuites_, 1667, p. 12.
377 Sagard, _Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons_, p. 255 _sqq._ (p. 178
_sqq._ of the Paris reprint).
378 Schleiden, _Das Salz_, p. 47. For this reference I am indebted to my
friend Prof. W. Robertson Smith.
379 W. Powell, _Wanderings in a Wild Country_, p. 66 _sq._
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