The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
G. Maspero, _Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique: les
origines_ (Paris, 1895), pp. 121 _sq._
Footnote 41:
Merolla, “Voyage to Congo,” in Pinkerton’s _Voyages and Travels_, xvi.
236.
Footnote 42:
C. C. von der Decken, _Reisen in Ost-Afrika_ (Leipsic and Heidelberg,
1869-1871), i. 216. The writer does not describe the mode of appeasing
the tree-spirit in the case mentioned. As to the Wanika beliefs, see
above, p. 12.
Footnote 43:
Sir Harry Johnston, _The Uganda Protectorate_ (London, 1902), ii. 832.
Footnote 44:
J. B. L. Durand, _Voyage au Sénégal_ (Paris, 1802), p. 119.
Footnote 45:
S. J. Curtiss, _Primitive Semitic Religion To-day_ (Chicago, 1902), p.
94.
Footnote 46:
A. d’Orbigny, _Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale_ (Paris and
Strasburg, 1839-1843), ii. 157, 159 _sq._
Footnote 47:
A. W. Nieuwenhuis, _In Centraal-Borneo_ (Leyden, 1900), i. 146.
Footnote 48:
H. H. Romilly, _From my Verandah in New Guinea_ (London, 1889), p. 86.
Footnote 49:
D. C. J. Ibbetson, _Outlines of Panjab Ethnography_ (Calcutta, 1883),
p. 120.
Footnote 50:
W. von Schulenberg, “Volkskundliche Mittheilungen aus der Mark,”
_Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie
und Urgeschichte_ (1896), p. 189. Compare A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz,
_Nord-deutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche_, p. 407, § 142; E. Meier,
_Deutsche Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Schwaben_, p. 463, § 208; A.
Kuhn, _Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen_, ii. pp. 108 _sq._,
§§ 326, 327, p. 116, §§ 356, 358; A. Birlinger, _Volksthümliches aus
Schwaben_, i. pp. 464 _sq._, § 6; K. Bartsch, _Sagen, Märchen und
Gebräuche aus Meklenburg_, ii. 228 _sq._; W. Kolbe, _Hessische
Volks-Sitten und Gebräuche_, 2nd Ed., p. 29; R. Andree,
_Braunschweiger Volkskunde_ (Brunswick, 1896), p. 234; R. Wuttke,
Sächsische Volkskunde 2nd Ed., (Dresden, 1901), p. 370. The custom has
been discussed by U. Jahn, _Die deutschen Opfergebräuche bei Ackerbau
und Viehzucht_ (Breslau, 1884), pp. 214-220. He comes to the
conclusion, which I cannot but regard as erroneous, that the custom
was in origin a rational precaution to keep the caterpillars from the
trees. Compare the marriage of trees, below, pp. 24 _sqq._
Footnote 51:
J. Aubrey, _Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme_ (London, 1881), p.
247.
Footnote 52:
Peter Jones, _History of the Ojebway Indians_, p. 104.
Footnote 53:
J. J. M. de Groot, _Religious System of China_, iv. 274.
Footnote 54:
A. Peter, _Volksthümliches aus Österreichisch-Schlesien_ (Troppau,
1865-67), ii. 30.
Footnote 55:
P. Wagler, _Die Eiche in alter und neuer Zeit_, ii. (Berlin, 1891) p.
56 note 1.
Footnote 56:
A. Bastian, _Indonesien_, i. 154; compare _id._, _Die Völker des
östlichen Asien_, ii. 457 _sq._, iii. 251 _sq._, iv. 42 _sq._
Footnote 57:
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