The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
141 E. Palmer, “Notes on some Australian Tribes,” _Journal of the
Anthropological Institute_, xiii. (1884) p. 292. Sometimes
apparently the Australian natives regard crystals or broken glass as
fallen stars, and treasure them as powerful instruments of magic.
See E. M. Curr, _The Australian Race_, iii. 29; W. E. Roth, _North
Queensland Ethnography, Bulletin No. 5_, p. 8.
142 J. Macgillivray, _Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake_
(London, 1852), ii. 30.
143 P. A. Kleintitschen, _Die Küstenbewohner der Gazellehalbinsel_
(Hiltrup bei Münster, N.D.), p. 227.
144 P. Rascher, “Die Sulka,” _Archiv für Anthropologie_, xxix. (1904) p.
216.
145 Dudley Kidd, _Savage Childhood_ (London, 1906), p. 149.
146 J. Halkin, _Quelques Peuplades du district de l’Uelé_ (Liège, 1907),
p. 102.
147 O. Baumann, _Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle_ (Berlin, 1894), p. 163.
148 O. Baumann, _Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle_ (Berlin, 1894), p. 188.
149 E. Petitot, _Monographie des Dènè-Dindjé_ (Paris, 1876), p. 60;
_id._, _Monographie des Esquimaux Tchiglit_ (Paris, 1876), p. 24.
150 A. Henry, “The Lolos and other Tribes of Western China,” _Journal of
the Anthropological Institute_, xxxiii. (1903) p. 103.
151 Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ ii. 28.
M48 Modern European beliefs as to meteors. Various beliefs as to stars
and meteors.
152 F. Panzer, _Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie_, ii. 293; A. Kuhn und
W. Schwartz, _Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche_, p. 457, §
422; E. Meier, _Deutsche Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Schwaben_,
p. 506, §§ 379, 380.
153 P. Sébillot, _Traditions et superstitions de la Haute-Bretagne_, ii.
353; J. Haltrich, _Zur Volkskunde der Siebenbürger Sachsen_ (Vienna,
1885), p. 300; W. Schmidt, _Das Jahr und seine Tage in Meinung und
Brauch der Romänen Siebenbürgens_, p. 38; E. Gerard, _The Land
beyond the Forest_, i. 311; J. V. Grohmann, _Aberglauben und
Gebräuche aus Böhmen und Mähren_, p. 31, § 164; Br. Jelínek,
“Materialien zur Vorgeschichte und Volkskunde Böhmens,”
_Mittheilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien_, xxi.
(1891) p. 25; G. Finamore, _Credenze, usi e costumi Abruzzesi_, pp.
47 _sq._; M. Placucci, _Usi e pregiudizj dei contadini della
Romagna_ (Palermo, 1885), p. 141; Holzmayer, “Osiliana,” _Verhandl.
der gelehrten Estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat_, vii. (1872) p. 48.
The same belief is said to prevail in Armenia. See Minas Tchéraz,
“Notes sur la mythologie arménienne,” _Transactions of the Ninth
International Congress of Orientalists_ (London, 1893), ii. 824.
Bret Harte has employed the idea in his little poem, “Relieving
Guard.”
154 H. Lew, “Der Tod und die Beerdigungs-gebräuche bei den polnischen
Juden,” _Mittheilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien_,
xxxii. (1902) p. 402.
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