_ 395 Relations des Jésuites_, 1634, p. 25, ed. 1858; A. Mackenzie, _Voyages through the Continent of America_, civ; J. Dunn, _History of the Oregon Territory_, p. 99; Whymper in _Journ. Royal Geogr. Soc._ xxxviii. (1868) p. 228; _id._ in _Transact. Ethnolog. Soc._ vii. 174; A. P. Reid, “Religious Belief of the Ojibois Indians,” in _Journ. Anthrop. Inst._ iii. 111. After a meal the Indians of Costa Rica gather all the bones carefully and either burn them or put them out of reach of the dogs. W. M. Gabb, _On the Indian Tribes and Languages of Costa Rica_ (read before the American Philosophical Society, 20th Aug. 1875), p. 520 (Philadelphia, 1875). The fact that the bones are often burned to prevent the dogs getting them does not contradict the view suggested in the text. It may be a way of transmitting the bones to the spirit-land. The aborigines of Australia burn the bones of the animals which they eat, but for a different reason; they think that if an enemy got hold of the bones and burned them with charms, it would cause the death of the person who had eaten the animal. _Native Tribes of South Australia_, pp. 24, 196. 396 Mannhardt, _Germanische Mythen_, pp. 57-74; _id._, _B. K._ p. 116; Cosquin, _Contes populaires de Lorraine_, ii. 25; Hartland, “The physicians of Myddfai,” _Archaeological Review_, i. 30 _sq._ In folk-tales, as in primitive custom, the blood is sometimes not allowed to fall on the ground. See Cosquin, _l.c._ 397 W. Mannhardt, _Germ. Myth._ p. 66. 398 Jamblichus, _Vita Pythag._ §§ 92, 135, 140; Porphyry, _Vit. Pythag._ § 28. 399 Pindar, _Olymp._ i. 37 _sqq._, with the Scholiast. 400 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 18. This is one of the sacred stories which the pious Herodotus (ii. 48) concealed and the pious Plutarch divulged. 401 Adam Hodgson, _Letters from North America_, i. 244. 402 Adair, _History of the American Indians_, p. 137 _sq._ 403 Petitot, _Monographie des Dènè-Dindjié?_ (Paris, 1867), pp. 77, 81 _sq._; _id._, _Traditions indiennes du Canada Nord-ouest_ (Paris, 1886), p. 132 _sqq._, cp. pp. 41, 76, 213, 264. 404 The first part of this suggestion is that of my friend Prof. W. Robertson Smith. See his _Lectures on the Religion of the Semites_, first series, p. 360, _note_ 2. The Faleshas, a Jewish sect of Abyssinia, after killing an animal for food, “carefully remove the vein from the thighs with its surrounding flesh.” Halévy, “Travels in Abyssinia,” in _Publications of the Society of Hebrew Literature_, second series, vol. ii. p. 220.