Maimonides, translated by D. Chwolsohn, _Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus_, ii. 475. It is not quite clear whether the direction, which Maimonides here attributes to the heathen of Harran, is taken by him from the beginning of _The Agriculture of the Nabataeans_, which he had referred to a few lines before. The first part of that work appears to be lost, though other parts of it exist in manuscript at Paris, Oxford, and elsewhere. See D. Chwolsohn, _op. cit._ i. 697 _sqq._ The book is an early Mohammedan forgery; but the superstitions it describes may very well be genuine. See A. von Gutschmid, _Kleine Schriften_, ii. 568-713. Footnote 358: G. W. W. C. Baron van Hoëvell, _Ambon en meer bepaaldelijk de Oeliasers_ (Dordrecht, 1875), pp. 62 _sq._ Footnote 359: J. Kreemer, “Tiang-dèrès” _Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap_, xxvi. (1882), pp. 128-132. This and the preceding custom have been already quoted by G. A. Wilken (“Het animisme bij de volken van den Indischen Archipel,” _De Indische Gids_, June 1884, pp. 962 _sq._; and _Handleiding voor de vorgelijkende Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië_ (Leyden, 1893), p. 550). Footnote 360: Above, p. 26. Footnote 361: W. Svoboda, “Die Bewohner des Nikobaren-Archipels,” _Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie_, v. (1892) pp. 193 _sq._ For other examples of a fruitful woman making trees fruitful, see above, vol. i. pp. 140 _sq._ Footnote 362: J. Roscoe, “Further Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Baganda,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxii. (1902) pp. 32-35, 38, 80. The Peruvian custom described above (vol. i. p. 266) may in like manner have been intended to promote the growth of beans through the fertilising influence of the parents of twins. On the contrary among the Bassari of Togo, in Western Africa, women who have given birth to twins may not go near the farm at the seasons of sowing and reaping, lest they should destroy the crop. Only after the birth of another child does custom allow them to share again the labour of the fields. See H. Klose, _Togo unter deutscher Flagge_ (Berlin, 1899), p. 510. Footnote 363: W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, pp. 480 _sq._; _id._, _Mythologische Forschungen_ (Strasburg, 1884), p. 341. Footnote 364: J. Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, i. 181. Footnote 365: My informant is Prof. W. Ridgeway. The place was a field at the head of the Dargle vale, near Enniskerry. Footnote 366: See above, p. 67. Footnote 367: G. W. W. C. Baron van Hoëvell, in _Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie_, viii. (1895) p. 134 note. The custom seems to go by the name of _dauwtroppen_ or “dew-treading.” As districts or places in which the practice is still kept up the writer names South Holland, Dordrecht, and Rotterdam. Footnote 368: