L. Strackerjan, _Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogthum Oldenburg_ (Oldenburg, 1867), ii. p. 78, § 361; W. Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, p. 481; _id._, _Mythologische Forschungen_, p. 340. Compare Th. Siebs, “Das Saterland,” _Zeitschrift für Volkskunde_, iii. (1893) p. 277. Footnote 369: A. C. Kruijt, “Een en ander aangaande het geestelijk en maatschappelijk leven van den Poso-Alfoer,” _Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap_, xxxix. (1895) p. 138, _ibid._ xl. (1896) pp. 16 _sq._ Footnote 370: G. F. Oviedo y Valdes, _Histoire du Nicaragua_ (published in Ternaux-Compans’ _Voyages, relations et mémoires originaux_, etc.), Paris, 1840, pp. 228 _sq._; A. de Herrera, _General History of the Vast Continent and Islands called America_ (Stevens’s translation, London, 1725-26), iii. 298. Footnote 371: C. Sapper, “Die Gebräuche und religiösen Anschauungen der Kekchi-Indianer,” _Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie_, viii. (1895) p. 203. Abstinence from women for several days is also practised before the sowing of beans and of chilis, but only by Indians who do a large business in these commodities (_ibid._ p. 205). Footnote 372: A. Heinrich, _Agrarische Sitten und Gebräuche unter den Sachsen Siebenbürgens_ (Hermannstadt, 1880), p. 7. Footnote 373: R. Temesvary, _Volksbräuche und Aberglauben in der Geburtshilfe und der Pflege der Neugebornen in Ungarn_ (Leipsic, 1900), p. 16. Footnote 374: Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 293. See above, vol. i. p. 88. Footnote 375: R. H. Codrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 134. Footnote 376: J. Chalmers, _Pioneering in New Guinea_ (London, 1887), p. 181. The word which I have taken to mean “holy or taboo” is _helaga_. Mr. Chalmers does not translate or explain it. Dr. C. G. Seligmann says that the word “conveys something of the idea of ‘sacred,’ ‘set apart,’ ‘charged with virtue’” (_The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, p. 101, note 2). Footnote 377: A. C. Haddon, _Head-hunters_ (London, 1901), pp. 270-272, 275 _sq._ Footnote 378: T. C. Hodson, “The Native Tribes of Manipur,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxi. (1901) p. 307. Footnote 379: T. C. Hodson, “The _genna_ amongst the Tribes of Assam,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxvi. (1906) p. 94. Footnote 380: Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xii. 54; Solinus, xxxiii. 6 _sq._, p. 166, ed. Th. Mommsen (first edition). Footnote 381: Theophrastus, _Histor. plant._ ix. 4. 5 _sq._ Footnote 382: Palladius, _De re rustica_, i. 6. 14; _Geoponica_, ix. 3. 5 _sq._ Footnote 383: With what follows compare _Psyche’s Task_, chapter iv. pp. 31 _sqq._, where I have adduced the same evidence to some extent in the same words. Footnote 384: