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
476 [P. N. Wilken], “De godsdienst en godsdienstplegtigheden der
Alfoeren in de Menahassa op het eiland Celebes,” _Tijdschrift voor
Nederlandsch Indië_, December 1849, pp. 392-394; id., “Bijdragen tot
de kennis van de zeden en gewoonten der Alfoeren in de Minahassa,”
_Mededeelingen v. w. het Nederland. Zendelinggenootsch_. vii. (1863)
149 _sqq._; J. G. F. Riedel, “De Minahasa in 1825,” _Tijdschrift
voor Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde_, xviii. (1872), 521 _sq._
Wilken’s first and fuller account is reprinted in Graafland’s _De
Minahassa_, i. 117-120.
477 Riedel, “Galela und Tobeloresen,” in _Zeitschrift f. Ethnologie_,
xvii. (1885) 82; G. A. Wilken, _Het Shamanisme bij de Volken van de
Indischen Archipel_, p. 58.
478 Riedel, _De sluik-en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua_,
p. 239.
479 Nieuwenhuisen en Rosenberg, _Verslag omtrent het eiland Nias_, p.
116 _sq._, Rosenberg, _Der Malayische Archipel_, p. 174 _sq._ Cp.
Chatelin, “Godsdienst en Bijgeloof der Niassers,” _Tijdschrift voor
Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde_, xxvi. 139. The Dyaks also
drive the devil at the point of the sword from a house where there
is sickness. See Hupe, “Korte verhandeling over de godsdienst,
zeden, enz. der Dajakkers” in _Tijdschrift voor Neêrland’s Indië_,
viii. (1846) dl. iii. p. 149.
480 Forbes, _British Burma_, p. 233; Shway Yoe, _The Burman_, i. 282,
ii. 105 _sqq._; Bastian, _Die Völker des östlichen Asien_, ii. 98.
481 Lewin, _Wild Tribes of South-Eastern India_, p. 226.
482 Hecquard, _Reise an die Küste und in das Innere von West Afrika_, p.
43.
483 Sagard, _Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons_, p. 279 _sqq._ (195
_sq._ of the Paris reprint). Compare _Relations des Jésuites_, 1639,
pp. 88-92 (Canadian reprint), from which it appears that each man
demanded the subject of his dream in the form of a riddle, which the
hearers tried to solve. The propounding of riddles is not uncommon
as a superstitious observance. Probably enigmas were originally a
kind of divination. Cp. Vambery, _Das Türkenvolk_, p. 232 _sq._;
Riedel, _De sluiken kroesharige rassen_, etc. p. 267 _sq._ In Bolang
Mongondo (Celebes) riddles may never be asked except when there is a
corpse in the village. N. P. Wilken en J. A. Schwarz, “Allerlei over
het land en volk van Bolaäng Mongondou,” _Mededeelingen van wege het
Nederlandsch. Zendelinggenootschap_, xi. (1867) p. 357.
484 The Rev. W. Ridley, in J. D. Lang’s _Queensland_, p. 441; cp.
Ridley, _Kamilaroi_, p. 149.
_ 485 Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow,
Alaska_ (Washington, 1885), p. 42 _sq._
486 Franz Boas, “The Eskimo,” _Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal
Society of Canada for 1887_, vol. v. (Montreal, 1888), sect. ii. 36
_sq._
487 Above, p. 162.
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